| It will address the networking and protocol development requirements for building power efficient and scalable wireless sensor networks for application in the utilities and resource management space. Aim of the project is to develop technology for effective transfer to and exploitation by Irish industry. The project will in particular develop a simple, power efficient, self-configuring network protocol stack, a simple and flexible middleware layer, and a remote network management system for wireless sensor networks. The project will also develop a testbed infrastructure, both virtual and physical, for developing and demonstrating sensor network applications for utilities and resource management applications.
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| The research team consisting of lead researchers from CIT and UCC are uniquely positioned to carry out this project due to existing expertise and project background, and the availability of generic heterogeneous sensor network testbeds within each institution. The team intends to interact closely on the project which is also aided by the geographical proximity of the two institutions. The principal investigator, Dr Dirk Pesch , together with the two lead researchers, co-investigator, Prof. Cormac Sreenan, and Mr Fergus O'Reilly, will lead the team of two postdoctoral level researchers with expertise in protocol design for sensor networks and network management, ideally for embedded networks, two research programmers/engineers with expertise in software development for embedded computing systems and software development in the virtual machine space. Two research students with a background in communication networking will work on protocol and middleware development. |
