Introduction - The Sensor Web - Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide
by Mark Roantree and Mikko Sallinen
One of the truly multidisciplinary research efforts involving computer scientists revolves around the topic of sensor networks. It brings together chemists who develop the sensors, engineers focusing on wireless platforms and other hardware components, and the computer scientists who develop the services, knowledge layers and middleware. In many cases, research must also include the knowledge workers associated with the specific domain, many of whom are represented in the articles in this issue of ERCIM News. In almost all cases, some aspect of the research will seek to create a bridge or bidirectional channel between the physical world of the planet, its people and the sensors, and the digital world of computers and their software applications.
Sensor Networks in the Real World
by Steven D. Glaser and Tommi Parkkila
At the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA, we have been developing and deploying wireless sensor systems for ten years. We have focused on solutions to societal needs. As we ask more and more from our 'motes' and their low-power networks, we foresee important applications for sensor and control networks that will require a more powerful and flexible solution.
MARWIS: A Management Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
by Gerald Wagenknecht, Markus Anwander and Torsten Braun
A heterogeneous wireless sensor network (WSN) contains different types of sensor nodes. To operate such a WSN, we present MARWIS (Management ARchitecture for WIreless Sensor Networks). It uses a wireless mesh network as a backbone and offers mechanisms for visualization, monitoring, reconfiguration and updating program code.
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- The IBM Mote Runner
- A Testbed for Sensor Service Networks
- Bringing the Semantic Sensor Web to Smart Buildings
- Building the Sensor Web - Standard by Standard
- Revolutionising Sensor Based Automation in Manufacturing
- Security and Robustness of Wireless Sensor Networks
- Security Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Ubiquitous Machine-to-Machine Service Networks
- Short-Range Communication in Ubiquitous Professional and Consumer Applications
- The CLARITY Ubiquitous Robotic Testbed
- Beyond RFID: The Ubiquitous Near-Field Distributed Memory
- Rapid Prototyping of Sensor-Based Applications with SunSPOTs
- Building an Adaptive Environmental Monitoring System Using Sensor Web Technology
- Remote Water Monitoring With Sensor Networking Technology
- Sensors Anywhere - Sensor Web Enablement in Risk Management Applications
- FLASH: Fine-Grained Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
- High-Density Wireless Geophone Networks for Oil and Gas Monitoring and Exploration
- A Software Platform for the Acquisition and Online Processing of Images in a Camera Network
- Tackling the Semantic Gap in Multimodal Sensor Networks
- Utilising Wearable Sensor Technology to Provide Effective Memory Cues
- SENSE - Smart Embedded Network of Sensing Entities
- Towards Data Management in the Sensor Web: the MaD-WiSe System
- Detecting Hazardous Gases in Emergency Disaster Scenarios using Wearable Sensors
- TennisSense: A Multi-Modal Sensing Platform for Sport
- Synchronizing Sensed Data in Team Sports
- Inertial Sensing: A Little Bit of CLARITY