Rice University work in Wireless Sensor Network Arena
From Emerging Technologies for Virtual Instrumentation blog:
I recently had the opportunity to visit with the Rice University team working on wireless sensor networks. I met with Farinaz Koushanfar and others who under the direction of Richard Baraniuk work on wireless sensor network research. They combed through numerous conference papers to research the applications and find out what software API would make for the most efficient implementation of those applications. The first lesson they found is that most applications described in the conference papers were never actually implemented but in most cases were only simulated.
What should the software API accomplish? The first response was to describe a target node set by a set of characteristics such as geography (e.g. all the nodes on Level 2), functionality (e.g. all the temperature reading nodes), condition (e.g. all the nodes that have full memories), etc.
The complete article here.
