A blog from the course on WSN given by Prof. Matt Welsh at Harvard is available here. The course website is here.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Wireless Health Institute
Gary and Mary West Foundation today committed $45 million to create the West Wireless Health Institute, one of world’s first medical research organizations dedicated to advancing health and well-being through the use of wireless technologies. Scripps Health has signed on
Contiki 2.2.3
Contiki 2.2.3 has been released! This release provides a set of new features, new ports to the Sentilla JCreate and the Meshnetics ZigBit module, a set of new shell commands, as well as several improvements and bugfixes. Checkout the full
Quiz: Who is this?
Who is this man? What is he doing? How is this related to sensornets?
Summer School in Italy
Kay Römer and Friedemann Mattern are directing a summer school in Italy on sensor networks and smart objects. The school is organized by CONET. Registration will be limited to 60 participants and there are 15 grants available for European students.
Using REST on SunSPOTs
From Web of Things blog: As smart loggers, we use the Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor network on top of which we have built a full RESTful stack. This includes a tiny Web server on the Spot themselves. This Web server
IP Seeks Dominance in Wireless Sensing Industry
The First Global Interoperability Test for IP-Based Sensor Networking was successfully conducted, as announced by the IPSO alliance last week. Participating vendors included: Arch Rock, Atmel, Cisco, Dust Networks, Gainspan, Jennic, PicosNet, Primex Wireless, Proto6, Sensinode, SICS. Vendors proved interoperability
NSDR 2009 (with SOSP’09)
Following on two successful workshops hosted with ACM SIGCOMM in 2007 and 2008, the 3rd Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR ’09) will provide a venue for researchers to present ideas and results concerning the design, implementation and
CONET Newsletter
The First issue of the CONET Newsletter is now available. Admittedly, a bit delayed? But yes, it has several cool articles on Sensor Nets. A short guest column, by Prof. John Stankovic, entitled “when sensor and actuator networks cover the
BodyNets 2009 Student Registration
There is an announcement at the BodyNets 2009 website about a reduced student registration fee of $50 (out of $299 usd) for the first 30 students who register. Good luck! More registration details here

