metropolitan scale wireless mesh network for research in participatory urban sensing

Met-Wi is a metropolitan scale Wi-Fi mesh network deployment that expands UCLA’s urban-sensing network into the community in collaboration with California State Parks around the new Los Angeles State Historic Park (LA SHP), a 32-acre site directly adjacent to LA downtown. The network connects two campus centers and the LA State Historic Park.

The network provides a research framework for developing policy-based privacy, and related security mechanisms for participatory sensing, including embedding network–attested location and time in sensor readings.

The network enables technology research on how networks can support communities in documenting their own environments as part of creating healthy and livable cities; and collaborative work with local communities that investigates how emerging technologies can be employed to express their identities and histories in today’s mediatized society.