Recent News
Project officially completed
2015-08-05
The project's results have been accepted by the Foundation for Polish Science and the project is now officially completed.Another TOSN paper accepted
2014-03-04
Our paper "Bringing Modern Unit Testing Techniques to Sensornets" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Read more...Student awarded
2013-12-09
Michal Gregorczyk, our former project member received a recognition at the XXX-th Polish Information Society's Contest for the Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science. The research presented in his thesis was conducted in the project.Funding finished
2013-07-01
The funding provided for the project by the Foundation for Polish Science has finished, which formally ends some period in the project. We may be seeking for new founding sources in the near future.Short promotional video available
2013-06-18
We have made a short videoclip promoting our project. Read more...Large mobile experiment
2013-06-06
Today, we counducted an experiment with a total of 81 mobile sensor nodes. The experiment involved lots of preparations, but produced a lot of data. We hope to process them soon.Large experiment scheduled
2013-06-03
On June 6th, we plan to conduct a large scale experiment involving 90 people wearing our mobile nodes and the additional 130 static nodes.20 more nodes arrived
2013-05-28
We have just received 20 more static nodes for our testbed. We plan to use the nodes in an upcoming experiment. More information soon...TOSN paper published
2012-08-29
Our paper, "A Case for Hierarchical Routing in Low-Power Wireless Embedded Networks," has been published in volume 8 issue 3 of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Read more...Testbed technical report online
2012-07-28
A technical report about our 102-node testbed is available online. Read more...Master's students recruited again
2012-06-29
We have finished the 2012 recruitment process. We received 7 high-quality applications. Unfortunately, we had to limit the number of students admitted to the project. Read more...Presentation for Master's students
2012-05-25
We have scheduled a presentation advertising the project to Master's students. During the presentation students currently involved in the project will talk about their work. The presentation will take place on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 12:15 in room 4070 of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw. Read more...Recruting students again
2012-05-10
The 2012 recruitment process of the Master's students who are willing to participate in the project has started. There are again two scholarships to get. Read more...WiMAN 2012 paper accepted
2012-04-28
Our paper, "Revisiting Gossip-based Ad-Hoc Routing" has been accepted for WiMAN 2012: The Sixth International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks. The workshop will be held at the end of July in Munich, Germany in collocation with ICCCN 2012: the 21st IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks. Read more...90 mobile nodes arrived
2012-04-23
We have just received a batch of 90 mobile sensor nodes. We are also finishing the software that will allow the mobile nodes to communicate with the 110 static ones.100+ nodes deployed
2012-03-12
We have finished deploying the first batch of 110 nodes. Currently, we are conducting long-term connectivity experiments and waiting for additional 90 mobile nodes.First nodes deployed
2012-02-06
We have just deployed 11 nodes in room 4280 on the third floor. 99 nodes are left to be deployed in 9 rooms during the next weeks.110 sensor nodes arrived
2011-12-22
Today, we received the first batch of 110 sensor nodes. Soon, we will start deploying them to create a 200-node testbed in the end.TOSN paper preprint online
2011-11-26
A preprint of our first paper "A Case for Hierarchical Routing in Low-Power Wireless Embedded Networks," which has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, is now available for download from the publication section. Read more...Master's students recruited
2011-07-07
We have finished the 2011 recruitment process. We received 9 high-quality applications. Unfortunately, we had to limit the number of students admitted to the project. Watch out for the next recruitment in 2012. Read more...Presentations for Master's students
2011-05-19
We have scheduled two presentations advertising the project to prospective and current Master's students. The presentations will take place on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The first one is at 12:15 in room 4070 and the second is at 13:15 in room 3120 of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw.Recruting Master's students
2011-05-17
The recruitment process of the Master's students who are willing to participate in the project has started. Read more...Project website operational
2011-05-13
The initial version of the project website has been finished. It is now online.Internet of Things
Recent developments in miniaturization, energy efficiency, and low-power wireless communication suggest that we are on the verge of a futuristic vision: a so-called Internet of Things. By embedding tiny, “smart”, wireless devices into the surrounding physical objects, the Internet of Things will allow not only humans, but also those every-day objects to directly communicate with each other. In this way, without human intervention, the networked objects will be able to collaborate in making our lives more convenient, environment friendly, and secure.
For example, once the devices in our office furniture detected that we have just left for home, they could signal the devices embedded in electric appliances in the room to turn off or hibernate the appliances, thereby saving energy. On our way home, the devices embedded in our car could communicate with similar devices in other nearby cars to ensure a safe distance from those cars and to avoid traffic jams. When passed over, devices embedded in the road surface a few kilometers from our house could instruct the devices controlling the house to prepare for our arrival. In effect, upon arrival we could, for instance, take a hot bath without either waiting for water to warm up or wasting energy on keeping water warm when we were away.
Wireless Sensor Networks
One of the technologies that can make the above vision a reality are
wireless
sensor networks (or simply sensornets): collections
of tiny devices integrating computing, wireless communication,
and sensing. A device of this sort – a wireless sensor node
– is an inexpensive microcomputer, typically no larger than
a coin. Powered by an equally small battery or by energy harvested
from the environment, it can work unattended for months or even years.
This size and ultra-low energy consumption facilitate embedding
such nodes into the surrounding physical world. Furthermore, to
have the ability to interact with their surroundings, the nodes
are equipped with low-power sensor and actuators. Sensors allow a
node to locally observe selected aspects of its environment, such
as the temperature, the presence of living organisms, or changes
in the magnetic field. Actuators, in turn, enable controlling the
object a node is embedded in, for example, switching a light,
changing the volume of fuel delivered to a car engine, or activating
parts of an irrigation system of a large farm.
An essential component of each node is a low-power radio, which the node uses to communicate with other nearby nodes. In this way, tens, hundreds, or even thousands of nodes can form a wireless network through which they can exchange data with each other and computers or other devices connected to the Internet. As a result, while an individual node has only local and limited sensing, decision making, and actuation capabilities, a wireless sensor network as a whole can provide a global picture of its surroundings, can make more informed decisions based on this picture, and can control the surroundings globally in a coordinated fashion.
We are researching the protocols that would allow tiny wireless sensor nodes to be a part of the Internet. I want to know more...
