Embedded WiSeNts (Coord. Action)

Wireless Sensor Networks: Omnipresent Embedded Systems for Exploration and Control

Project Manager: Paul Havinga

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Tel.: +31-53-4894619

Project website:

Project Summary

Many types of embedded applications today rely on the wired communication between sensors. For many scenarios, wireless communication of small, independent, cheap sensors would be a big step forward in deployment, practicability, functionality; it will even enable new application types. Technological progress has made such wirelessly networked sensors feasible in the near future. The networking of these sensors into Wireless Sensor Networks is still an area of open problems. While a lot of this research has so far been performed in the US, European research is picking up speed but is largely proceeding in an uncoordinated fashion. Different kinds of incompatible testbeds have been developed, experience is not well shared and planning of future testbeds is not harmonized. Therefore, a lack of integration in the field of wireless sensor networks is endangering the success of European RandD. We propose the coordination action WiSeNt Wireless Sensor Networks: Omnipresent Embedded Systems for Exploration and Control, to overcome this threat. The main objective is to foster a well-coordinated research community in Europe that can efficiently tackle research bottlenecks, investigate the impact of the technology on users and manufacturers, on education and teaching, and on society at large. We structure our objectives into the following areas: 1.) Integrating, harmonizing, and fostering European WiSeNt RandD, considering the problems of European research facilitation, integration of research, characteristics of applications, mobility of researchers within Europe, and forming a substantial Europe research forum. 2.) Education and training is necessary in the short- and long-term perspective. 3.) An early integration of research into the standardization process is essential. 4.) The last aspect concerns enhancing applications, to carry research results to manufacturers of components and to system integrators.

Embedded WiSeNts publications UT

Project duration: 1-9-2004 / 1-9-2006

Project budget: 2 M-€

Number of person/years:

Project Coordinator: Technische Universität Berlin

Participants: TU-Berlin, Universities of Cambridge, Copenhagen, Twente, Yeditepe, Rome “La Sapienza”, Padova, and Stuutgart, SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), ETH Zürich, INRIA, AICIA (Asociacion de Investigacion y Cooperacion Industrial de Andalucia),

Project budget CTIT: 95.4 k-€ funding

Number of person/years CTIT:

Involved groups: Computer Architecture Design and Test for Embedded Systems (CADTES)

CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: UBRICKS (Building Blocks for Ubiquitous Computing and Communication)

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