Embedded Computing for the Rest of us: Project Sun SPOT
With just 850 students, Warren Wilson College in North Carolina is not awash in inter-departmental resources. So when Professor David Abernathy won a $100,000 grant to develop a geographic information system and wireless sensor network for the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama, he needed some embedded programming expertise not likely to be found on campus.
Wireless sensors are ideal for studying changes in microclimates over time. As opposed to humans, sensors leave no footprints and break no branches, and can record conditions every 20 minutes around the clock. If you are a researcher interested in remote sensing, there are plenty of resources, including the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Embedded Network Sensing, which has more than $40 million in funding with graduate students coming from across the state. Abernathy admires the Center’s work, but given his limited grant, small department, and lack of graduate students, he needed something more off-the-shelf.
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