Seville considered as the wireless paradise in Spain, with the higest density of wifi access points (22.000 in 27 sq km tracked, details), is now preparaing to launch a WSN in the Seville port.

The project, called PROFIT, is leadered by engineers Antonio Torralba and Ramón González Carvajal at the University of Seville. Their WSN to be deployed in the port area will use nodes on buoys to sense water conditions and traffic parameters, among others.

The TELEMAQ+ project, on the other hand, is using a similar system to aid  fireman trucks in Andalusia react efficiently in case of forest casualties.

Complete article here (Spanish)

The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is pioneering in-situ continuous measurement systems for environmental, physiological and ecological data. Among others research applications, like TEOS, they are creating and applying a new genre of sensor networks for making observations in aquatic ecosystems, to better understand the dynamics of planktonic microbial populations. Field studies to date have focused on Lake Fulmor at the James Reserve in the San Jacinto Mountains, CA. The goal for the field component of the Aquatic Microbial Observing Systems is to develop robust, decentralized algorithms and supporting hardware that enable a wireless sensor network consisting of sensor-equipped buoys and a sensor/sampler-equipped autonomous vehicle (robotic boat) that can perform adaptive hydrographic and biological sampling using the information provided by the network.

Their complete research agenda can be visited here

AlgoSensors 2007 is the 3^rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks, will be held in Wroclaw, Poland on July 14 2007. The Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks. It will take place immediately after ICALP’2007. More info to be announced.