Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano
A paper on “Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano”, by Geoff Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Mario Ruiz, Omar Marcillo, Jeff Johnson, Jonathan Lees, and Matt Welsh, has been published in the IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Data-Driven Applications in Sensor Networks, March/April 2006.
Augmenting heavy and power-hungry data collection equipment with lighter, smaller wireless sensor network nodes leads to faster,larger deployments.Arrays comprising dozens of wireless sensor nodes are now possible,allowing scientific studies that aren’t feasible with traditional instrumentation.Designing sensor networks to support volcanic studies requires addressing the high data rates and high data fidelity these studies demand.The authors’ sensor-network application for volcanic data collection relies on triggered event detection and reliable data retrieval to meet bandwidth and data-quality demands.
The paper is available here.
