International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Wireless sensor networks are networks consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants, at different locations. Wireless sensor networks are now used in many civilian application areas, including environment and habitat monitoring, healthcare applications, home automation, and traffic control. Panelists will present on 1) CitySense, an urban scale sensor network test bed that is being developed by researchers at Harvard University and BBN Technologies. 2) The research carried out at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing on participatory-sensing systems, based on automated, programmable, and adaptive collection of environmental, physiological, and social parameters at the personal and community level; 3) Project Sun SPOT, a development kit for embedded deployments built on the Java platform. (less...)