In recent years, sensor networks has attracted many researchers and practitioners. We would like to set forth a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas in development of sensor networks and their applications. The First International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2008) will be held in conjunction with the 2008 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008).

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers limited to 6 pages. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ICCCN 2008 website. Please submit your papers at http://edas.info

Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission: March 30, 2008
Acceptance Notification: May 12, 2008
Paper registration: May 20, 2008
Camera ready papers due: May 22, 2008
Early non-author registration: June 30, 2008

More info here.

The Wireless Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) and the UK Sensors & Instrumentation KTN are inviting innovative demonstrations from industry and academia and 16 of them will be selected to be displayed at a complementary
Showcase event at the National Physical Laboratory on 1st July 2008. The demonstrators will be classified into two categories: a) R&D systems and b) Commercially available systems. The demo proposals will be reviewed by a committee and a ‘Best Demo Award’ will be awarded in each of the two categories based upon both the technical and innovation contribution, while descriptions of accepted demos will be published in a delegates pack.

For more information and instructions how to submit demo proposals and important dates visit http://www.wisig.org/showcase2008 or email
showcase2008@wisig.org.

Important dates

Demo submission deadline: 1 May 2008
Acceptance notification: 1 June 2008
Camera ready version: 15 June 2008
Showcase Event: 1 July 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008)

July 21-25, 2008, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.mobiquitous.org

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop proposals: March 1, 2008
Paper registration: March 8, 2008
Paper submission: March 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008
Camera-ready version: May 18, 2008

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The SunSPOT team is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of six of their add-on board designs including the eDEMO board. The content available for download now are the schematics, bill of materials, assembly drawings, fabrication drawings, PC design files and gerber files for these boards. This content is covered by either the GPL or BSD license.

The designs released so far are:

eDemo: Demonstration add-on board for the Sun SPOT.
eFlash: MiniSD card reader/writer add on board for Sun SPOT
eProto: Prototype board with simple interface to Sun SPOT
eProtomega: eSPOT Prototyping board with Atmega88 processor
eSerial: RS232 Serial interface board for the Sun SPOT
eUSB-Host: USB host interface to Sun SPOT

More info here.

The Zigbee Alliance announced that they’re forming an “Internet Solutions Initiative” to investigate ways of integrating IP networking into Zigbee. Translation: They’re forming a new IP6 group.

Looks like they’ve taken notice of the work thats going on over at 6LowPAN and Adam Dunkel’s Contiki/uIP project . Anyone thats familiar with the Zigbee spec knows that its almost a one to one correspondence with TCP/IP. The Zigbee NWK layer is analogous to the IP layer, the NWK routing protocol, AODV, is analogous to IP’s RIP or OSPF, and the Zigbee Application Framework is analogous to the TCP layer (without the TCP state machine and the weird sequence space thing). Zigbee has endpoints, TCP has ports. Zigbee has endpoint grouping, TCP has port binding. The list goes on and on.

One of the main benefits of Zigbee is that the protocol is designed for operation over wireless networks and was basically designed to fit 802.15.4. 6LowPAN on the other hand is doing double-back-handsprings-with-a-twist to get IPv6 to fit into the 802.15.4 frames.

More info here.