Project Approved!!

We are very happy to announce that our proposal for DOORS (Gateways and Crossroads for Pervasive Environmental Monitoring) has been approved and the project is scheduled to commence on the 1st of October 2007!

Stay tuned for more information!

Here is a synopsis of the project.

Until recently most Wireless Sensor Network activity has assumed the existence of a dominant platform for Wireless Sensor Networks; this facilitates performance analysis activities, and simplifies deployment. However, it is our experience that heterogeneous multi-party deployments will become more prevalent therefore there is an increased need for systems to seamlessly integrate and interoperate. Large Infrastructure operators such as water and power utilities have experienced similar pattern over the years which makes them particularly cautious towards early adoption of new technologies. Sensing devices with a common interface will significantly increase the attraction of their mass use and deployment.

This demonstrator project aims to collect environmental and vibration data for evaluation the structural condition of the Queen’s Tower, the 1890’s landmark at South Kensington also known by the unique Alexandra Peal of bells.

We will be using a heterogeneous network made of a combination of Beasties (Tesserae/C), Sunspots (JVM/Java) and TMotes (TinyOS/NesC) devices to collect data and by doing so, we could tackle research issues related to pervasive interoperability such as:

· The analysis of network and system performance at different levels of cooperation

· Implementing an accurate time synchronization using a global time stamp using collegiate coordination and radio signals

In doing so we wish to identify critical services and components that could enable transparent coexistence between multiple heterogeneous and multi party deployments.