Researcher Carlo Alberto Boano, formerly at SICS, received the Bengt Asker Award for his thesis: Application Support Design for Wireless Sensor Networks (Zip 10 MB). The award is given by The Swedish National Real-Time Association for the best Swedish master
Monthly Archives: September 2009
September 29, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
SenSys Program
ACM SenSys, the flagship conference in Sensor Networks, will he held in Berkeley, California on November 4-6 2009 and the program is now available. Among the novelties: the Keynote Address links to Google Research and their PowerMeter Project. Inspiring?
September 26, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
ISSNIP PHD/ECR Forum
The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing – ISSNIP 2009, held under the umbrella of the ARC Research Network on ISSNIP, is an annual forum for sensor network research. The ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum, taking place
September 25, 2009 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
NSDR Student Travel
NSDR has five “registration waivers” (sponsored by Microsoft Research India) for students who want to attend NSDR. Practically, this makes more sense for people who are already planning to attend SOSP. Deadline for applying is Sep 29th. More information here.
September 25, 2009 by Claro Noda | 1 Comment
EWSN 2010/CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards
The Chairs of the 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2010) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award Competitions in the area of Cooperating Objects. The prize is donated by the
September 23, 2009 by Claro Noda | 1 Comment
Contiki Crash Course
Participants to the CONET SENIOT Summer School held in Bertinoro, Italy, this summer had the opportunity to attend an interesting hands-on session with basic exercises with the Contiki Operating System for WSN. Material from the course is available online, you
September 16, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
First SHIMMER Technology Exchange STE’09
Shimmer is to organize their First Technology Exchange STE’09, to be held at Harvard University on October 5-6, 2009. Shimmer Research provides an integrated WSN mote platform specifically designed for e-Health applications. Their platform, build around the popular MPS430 CPU
September 16, 2009 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Mobile app sees science go global
A mobile phone application will help professional and “citizen” scientists collect and analyse data from “in the field”, anywhere in the world. The EpiCollect software collates data from certain mobiles – on topics such as disease spread or the occurrence
September 16, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
Agriculture and IT
Cost-effective monitoring, collection and transmission of data through WSN to a crop farm decision making system leads to promising applications, namely Precision Agriculture. Agrosense is one of several worldwide efforts, a small FP7 EU funded project (~1M Eu) that looks
September 14, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
ZigBee RF4CE Specs Now Available
The ZigBee RF4CE specification for advanced remote controls is now available for public download. ZigBee RF4CE replaces infrared (IR) with radio frequency (RF) communication in remote controls, allowing non-line-of-sight operation, greater range and longer battery life for consumer electronic (CE)
