SNC Benefits

SNC Program Benefits

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  • Semi-annual meetings for knowledge transfer and information sharing
  • A private consortium meeting where university participants outline recent research results, industry participants describe new advances and emerging challenges, and opportunities are provided for interactions among all participants
  • An open symposium. With approximately 150 attendees, such open symposia can help advance the collective goals of the sensor network industry. Consortium members will be given opportunity for visibility. For example, Sensor Networks: What’s Real and What Lies Ahead
  • Access to diverse resources and intellectual capital within the academic community that includes affiliated faculty and a wide body of graduate students

When interests coincide between consortium members (i.e., industry, faculty, students), CISE will facilitate meetings, company site visits or university laboratory tours, to discuss specific projects and brainstorm on future work. Partnerships between a participating company and affiliated faculty can include:

  • Joint proposals for federally funded research; for submission to DoD, NSF, DOE, or other agencies
  • Joint studies and experimentation on the use of sensor networks addressing scalability, security and other concerns, or the development of joint test bed platforms that explore the use of sensor network technology in new application domains. Faculty can implement new approaches on participants’ platforms.
  • Internships of well trained graduate students at member companies
  • Company-sponsored research in an area of interest
  • Access to other industry participants in an open forum

Strategic alliances among industry participants can include partnerships among sensor network vendor companies and potential users of the technology (system integrators), interoperability studies among various technologies, and establishing a common roadmap for the long-term development of the sensor network industry.

  • Member only web

Members will have access to secure web pages with SNC related information. In addition, faculty provides periodic updates to recent papers and technical reports as well as other technical developments tracked by university researchers.

  • Open invitation to a distinguished seminar series organized by CISE

Many nationally prominent researchers are regularly invited to give seminars on their recent work. As appropriate, CISE can make seminar materials (e.g., presentation files, related papers by speakers) available to member companies.

  • Publicity

    Boston University will use its public relations, industry liaison and web resources to promote the consortium, its collaborative projects and the relevant activities and news of its participants. Participants will have opportunities to present to academic and industry audiences. As mutually agreed, results of collaborative projects can be publicized via faculty papers, invited lectures, web pages and reports to funding agencies.

SNC annual membership fee is $6500. To become a member, please contact Linda Grosser at Lgrosser at bu.edu or 617-358-1295.