ICT SENSEI FP7
SENSEI (Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future) is an Integrated Project in the EU's Seventh Framework Programme, in the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Priority of Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures: ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future.
The SENSEI project (Contract no. 215923) started on 1st January 2008, and is set out to run for three years. 20 partners [link to partner list below] from 11 European countries participate in the project.
In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction.
Tangible results of the SENSEI project are:
- A highly scalable architectural framework with corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy plug and play integration of a large number of globally distributed WS&AN into a global system – providing support for network and information management, security, privacy and trust and accounting.
- An open service interface and corresponding semantic specification to unify the access to context information and actuation services offered by the system for services and applications.
- Efficient WS&AN island solutions consisting of a set of cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver targeting 5nJ/bit.
- Pan European test platform, enabling large scale experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and execution of field trials - providing a tool for long term evaluation of WS&AN integration into the Future Internet.
Technology developed by SENSEI will play an essential part in transforming the existing Internet, Mobile Networks and Service Infrastructures into a Network of the Future that is capable to deal with the challenging demands of a Future Networked Society
Link to Project website for further information: (
http://www.sensei-project.eu).
IST e–SENSE
The IST e-SENSE (Capturing Ambient Intelligence for Mobile Communications through Wireless Sensor Networks) project is an Integrated Project funded as part of the EU FP6 research program, and brings together the expertise from 24 companies, universities and research institute from 11 European countries. The e-SENSE project develops technology to capture ambient intelligence by means of WS&AN for beyond 3G mobile communication systems. The project aims to provide a complete WS&AN system solution that can be easily configured for a variety of different application environments and integrated into B3G service platforms such as IMS. The e-SENSE system addresses a range of different system components, from the reduced and full functional sensor nodes, gateways up to necessary extensions to B3G service platforms. Developed solutions include ultra-low power PHY, energy efficient cross-layer protocol solution for MAC, network and transport, a variety of management services, distributed middleware for in-network data processing and semantic transport and mechanisms and protocols for B3G network and service level integration .
The Wireless Sensor Network Research Lab is technically managing the e-SENSE project and is strongly involved in various research activities including system architecture, communication protocols, test beds and B3G network integration.
Link to Project website for further information: (
http://www.ist-e-sense.org).
IST CRUISE
The IST CRUISE (CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments) project is a Network of Excellence funded as part of the EU FP6 research program, and comprises 33 leading academic research institution in Europe in the field of WS&AN. CRUISE partners closely work on a joint programme of activities in the different areas of WS&AN, a crucial part of which is the creation of a state-of-the-art Knowledge Base, available to the general public. CRUISE work mainly focuses on information collection, comparison, validation and dissemination. CRUISE establishes research collaboration between the different partners that is aimed toward the solution of specific theoretical and technological problems that will enable the building of sensor network applications that can significantly affect European society.
The Wireless Sensor Network Research Lab participates actively in various collaborative research activities and exchanges within the CRUISE consortium.
Link to Project website for further information: (
http://www.ist-cruise.eu/cruise).
SETsquared/CALIT2 – UK/US wireless collaborative program grant
As part of an UK/US research collaboration funded by SETsquared and CALIT2, the Wireless Sensor Network Research Lab has started a joint research activity with University of California, San Diego, USA. The principle idea behind the collaboration activity is to research and develop a system that is capable to outsource processing from low capability wireless nodes and wireless networks of nodes to higher capability nodes (in terms of processing and power) in a mobile environment. This new architecture will enable simple, resource-limited devices or networks thereof, to execute complex mobile applications involving high levels of processing. It will therefore drastically expand the capabilities of resource limited mobile devices, which have to operate under limited form factors and energy budgets.
Link to organisation websites:
http://www.setsquared.co.uk/,
http://www.calit2.net/
