WASP project description
Acronym
WASP
Name
Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations
Duration
2006-2010
Keywords
Sensor networks, embedded systems, sensor hardware platforms, programming models, networking, tradeoffs, battery-power
Goal
The goal of the WASP initiative is to develop a complete stack for the realization of Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations. As part of the development of these systems, a set of applications from three different fields --elder care, road transport, and animal herd control-- are being targeted, and a concrete hardware implementation is being developed.
Description
An important class of collaborating objects is represented by networks of wireless sensors. While there has been a significant amount of academic research in this area, there has been little uptake from the industry, possibly due to a mismatch between facilities provided at the node and network level, and the desire to employ higher-level abstractions in programming applications for these systems.
The WASP project's aim is to narrow this mismatch by addressing a broad range of issues --basic hardware, sensors, processor, communication, packaging and organisation of nodes-- including the selection of applications. The emphasis in the project lies in the self-organisation of systems and services which link applications to the sensor network. The target business areas --road transport, elderly care, and herd control-- were selected for their societal significance and large range of requirements, to validate the results of the WASP project.
The involvement of TU/e is in the study of tradeoffs --and the associated theory and tools-- that are relevant for such systems. These tradeoffs involve basic properties of systems, such as computation, communication and storage resources, as well as qualitative properties such as timing/performance, security, reliability and spatial coverage of environments of interest.
Partners involved
People involved (from TU/e-EE-ES):
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