From 7.5th floor: This week’s LBS360.net podcast “You are a Sensor” discusses volunteer geographic information and “taking advantage of people doing what they do” to detect diseases, natural disasters, traffic jams, and zones of social activities. Researchers have determined that
Monthly Archives: July 2008
July 15, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
NSDR 2008 Program is Online
NSDR 2008 program is now online. You can read papers (PDF) and leave comments as well. This year Kenneth Kenniston (MIT) is the keynote speaker. The 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR) will be held
July 15, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Last day for senZations’08!
Today is the last day to register to senZations’08, Third International Summer School on Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks and Wireless Sensing in the Future Internet. More info here.
July 14, 2008 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone
SAN FRANCISCO — The secret to finding the perfect parking spot in congested cities is usually just a matter of luck. But drivers here will get some help from an innocuous tab of plastic that will soon be glued to
July 14, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Release of Contiki 2.2
The Contiki project is happy to announce the release of version 2.2 of the Contiki operating system! Contiki 2.2 brings a set of new features: the shell has been much improved and now supports network-level commands, low-power radio networking, sensor
July 11, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
Release of Tenet 2.0
The Tenet project has made a public release of the Tenet software v2.0. Tenet is software for flexibly programming a tiered network of sensors. Tiered networks consist of motes and masters (PC-class devices, such as Stargate, that run Linux or
July 10, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Hogthrob, Networked on-a-chip nodes for sow monitoring
Sow monitoring is a very interesting application area for sensor networks. Consider sows wearing sensor nodes incorporating movement detectors as well as a micro-controller and a radio. A farmer could have wireless contact with the sensor nodes and thus track
July 10, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Anti-theft network could kill that baying car alarm, track stolen vehicles
Those annoying and often ignored car alarms could be a thing of the past if researchers developing an anti-theft sensor network have their way. According to scientists at Penn State, the anti-theft car network would require a sensor (or multiple
July 10, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
Sentilla CTO World Experiences
Joe Polastre (Sentilla CTO) have been running around the world over the last few weeks, with two trips to Europe and some other trips around the US. He gave a number of invited talks, have spent time talking with visionaries
July 08, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Synchronising ‘heartbeat’ saves sensor batteries
“PUMPING” data around a wireless network of sensors – just as blood is pumped around the human circulatory system – could allow the sensors’ batteries to last four times as long. Sensor networks like the ones used for environmental monitoring
