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
- 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
