SNC Research and Technology Focus

Network Services - Location detection, data collection and fusion, computation and control, fault diagnosis, distributed estimation
Infrastructure - Design, protocols, routing, transmission scheduling, programming languages and middleware
Application Domains - Building automation, supply chain, manufacturing, healthcare, robotics, asset tracking, condition monitoring, home networking, military and homeland defense
Business Models - Understanding of the economics, organizational issues and business models related to sensor network adoption and implementation

Research highlights by affiliated faculty

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Location detection services in wireless sensor networks
Optimizing sensor network deployment
Efficient and fair transmission policies for ultra low power wireless sensor networks
Asynchronous database queries over sensor networks
Distributed estimation and control using sensor networks
Data fusion techniques for sensor network applications
A data collection network for scalable sensor applications
New programming paradigms for wireless sensor networks
Battery operated sensor network testbeds and platforms
Self-configuration services and application support constructs for wireless sensor networks
Sensor network-enhanced robot navigation
Controlling robots over a wireless communication network
An ad hoc sensor network infrastructure for emergency medical care
Active surveillance networks
Application of sensor networks in supply chain management
Network security
Sensor network application areas: emergency medical care, manufacturing and supply chain, asset tracking, building automation, machine condition monitoring, homeland security, military applications
Organizational issues and business models driven by sensor network adoption

CISE, an interdisciplinary center at Boston University, is a collaboration among faculty from the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Management.