Some twenty lecture on Wireless Sensor Networks by Prof.Christian Schindelhauer are available online. You can download both the slides and the video with the explanation. Topic covered are, among the others: - WSN versus MANET - Basics of computer networks,
Monthly Archives: January 2007
January 24, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
New products from Crossbow
Crossbow Technology has announced a family of kits for Wireless Sensor Networks to accelerate technology evaluation, commercial application development and the set up of WSNs in educational teaching labs. The complexities of wireless communication and incomplete and inflexible offerings often
January 23, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
AWARE project: cooperating autonomous robots with WSN
Within the EU sponsored project AWARE project, autonomous robotics systems and wireless sensor networks are jointly considered. The project involves the development of co-operative robotics functionalities. The platform will offer self-deployment, selfconfiguration and self-repairing features by means of cooperating autonomous
January 23, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Jennic expands wireless system design team
Jennic has launched a recruitment drive for embedded software and wireless applications engineers in the UK. The firm, which is based in Sheffield, is looking for a dozen engineers particularly with experience of wireless mesh networks and developing protocol stacks,
January 23, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Industrial CASE PhD Studentship: Wireless Sensor Networks for High Security Sensor Applications
As part of an EPSRC CASE award in collaboration with a UK government research and development organisation, we are seeking to recruit a highly motivated PhD student in the research area of Wireless Sensor Networks applied to sensors for physical
January 23, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Self-Powered Wireless Corrosion Detection System
From Moteiv’s blog: Boeing Phantom Works has published a very interesting paper on a system to detect corrosion in aircraft using wireless sensors at IMECE 2006. Previous research into aircraft maintenance has show that “by far, the largest single maintenance
January 23, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Adam Dunkels’ PhD Defense
Adam Dunkels the author of widely used sensornet softwares like micro-TCP/IP, Contiki OS, and Protothreads would defend his PhD thesis entitled “Programming Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems“, at 10:00 AM on the 15th of February 2007 in the conference rooms “Filen”
January 22, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
About us page
Ever wondered who are the authors of this blog? We finally have an about-us page, where you can read about us (and have a look at our pictures!). The about-us is available here!
January 21, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
Underwater sensor network using optical wireless communication
Potential applications for distributed networks of sensors are numerous and varied. Concern for the environment is one of the driving forces behind extensive research into all aspects of sensor networks (communication protocols, energy harvesting, and microelectronic device fabrication, to name
January 21, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
The first Annual IEEE International Workshop “From Theory To Practice in Wireless Sensor Networks” (t2pWSN’2007) will be co-located with the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks in Helsinki. T2PWSN 2007 is devoted to the
