This work focuses on self-supervised placement-aware representation learning for multi-node IoT systems with spatially-distributed sensor observations.
The objective is to capture and distill spatial phenomena from distributed sensor observations across multiple vantage points.
The framework developed advances self-supervised model pretraining by encoding the relationship between sensor signals and observer vantage points, considering the spatial nature of IoT data.
Experiments on real-world datasets show the method's superior generalizability and robustness across various modalities, sensor placements, and application-level tasks.