Lattices of sensors reconsidered when less information is preferred

TL;DR

This paper models sensors as covers within a semilattice structure to better handle sensing limitations, uncertainty, and privacy concerns, offering a new perspective on sensor organization.

Contribution

It introduces a novel semilattice framework for sensors modeled as covers, addressing issues of information conflation and privacy in sensing systems.

Findings

Provides a mathematical model for sensors as covers

Organizes sensors into a semilattice structure

Addresses privacy and uncertainty in sensing

Abstract

To treat sensing limitations (with uncertainty in both conflation of information and noise) we model sensors as covers. This leads to a semilattice organization of abstract sensors that is appropriate even when additional information is problematic (e.g., for tasks involving privacy considerations).