Project InformationEcology - The New Ecology of ThingsIn the 2005 Fall Quarter at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, the faculty taught a class called the New Ecology of Things. This design class was unusual because instead of models, the student designers built and demonstrated working prototypes of their ideas, using Sun SPOTs as the development platform in an exploration of the trends and futures of small electronic devices. Each student team researched specific audiences and contexts, then developed systems that addressed the questions of how people and things might interact in a fluid environment of data-rich things. The results were quite impressive, ranging from flocking blimps and smart shoes to new musical instruments and match-making environments. ROCKET LAUNCH - Sun Labs Space ProgramAt Sun Microsystems Laboratories, we occasionally do what we call Friday Projects. The goal of these projects is to do something from start to finish in a single day. For this particular Friday project, we decided to launch Sun SPOTs on a model rocket. So starting Friday morning, we built a rocket, embedded 2 Sun SPOTs in "Space Shuttle" vehicles, wrote the ground-telemetry software (in Java), developed some Sun SPOT antenna extenders and documented the whole thing from start to finish. The result? We launched two (redundant) Sun SPOTs on a single rocket that streamed light, temperature and acceleration data live over the radio to the ground stations that were busy plotting the data.
Habitat Monitoring using Wireless Sensors University of Bradford: http://www.bradford.ac.uk Investigators: Prof. Yim Fun Hu (y.f.hu@bradford.ac.uk), Dr Prashant Pillai (p.pillai@bradford.ac.uk) This project is supported by the local council to develop an educational theme park at Bradford, with the aim of raising public awareness on how science and technologies can help in developing a sustainable environment. The project is due to start in March 2008. A major component of this project is to develop a wireless network consisting of wireless sensors for habitat monitoring. These sensor nodes will transmit their data through the sensor network to the sensor network gateway, through which the sensor data will be transmitted from to a local area network in the theme park, where a web server and a security server will be hosted and where data logging, data processing and data presentation functionalities will be carried out. The project will look into the possibility of developing the wireless sensor network using Sunspots. Security for smarts wireless sensor networks University of Bradford: http://www.bradford.ac.uk Student Name: George Nikolitsis Supervisors: Dr Prashant Pillai (p.pillai@bradford.ac.uk), Prof Yim Fun Hu (y.f.hu@bradford.ac.uk) Like any wireless network, wireless sensor networks also are susceptible to various security attacks such as eavesdropping, message tampering, Denial-of-Service attacks, etc. Other attacks such as Sinkhole attack, Wormhole attack and Sybil attack are only found in wireless sensor networks. Due to the computational power and resource constraints existing network security mechanisms are inappropriate for this area. The objective of this research is to first study the various security requirements and security attacks and to develop new security mechanisms for smart wireless sensor networks that require lower resources without compromising the level of security. The project also aims to study the efficient use of PKI in wireless sensor networks. Video surveillance using Sunspots University of Bradford: http://www.bradford.ac.uk Student Name: Vinay Prasanna Kumar Supervisor: Dr Prashant Pillai (p.pillai@bradford.ac.uk) This project aims to develop a video surveillance system using Sunspots. The system would detect any movement in a room and alert the user if any unidentified object is present in the room. A camera will be connected to the Sunspot which will periodically take pictures of a room and send it to the Sunspot. Images will be compared with a pre-stored image of the room when it is empty. If the two pictures do not match, an alarm will be triggered. Doors – gateways and crossroads for pervasive environmental monitoring Project WebsiteProject Blog Project Datasheet Antonio Gonzalez-Velazquez, Hongwei Zhou, Julie McCann Imperial College London: www3.imperial.ac.uk Motivation
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. Queen's TowerWe 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 If you have developed a unique project based on SPOT technology that you would like to tell the world, then along with your name and address, please send details of the project to Michael Lonnon and we'll post your entry to this very website - we'll even send you a free T-Shirt for your efforts! |
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