Pics-on-wheels: Photo surveillance in the vehicular cloud

Cloud computing allows user to access remote hardware, data and software through the network. However, many of these resources today are found on mobiles. For example, modern vehicles provide powerful platforms for computation, data delivery, storage, and sensing. This paper introduces the notion of Mobile Cloud computing to tap mobile resources. As an example, we describe the Pies-on-Wheels service, a Vehicular Cloud service that delivers images on demand to citizens by using vehicles' on board cameras. A server (eg taxi dispatcher or Navigator Server) accepts requests from members and assigns the photo clicking task to vehicles close to the target. The feasibility of the Pies-on-Wheels service is demonstrated in a San Francisco scenario using published taxicab routes. © 2013 IEEE.