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Fourth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors

EmNets 2007 proceedings are available online at ACM's Digital Library

Day 1: Monday, June 25

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome and Introductions

9:15 - 10:45

Session I: Applications

  • PermaSense: Investigating Permafrost with a WSN in the Swiss Alps
    Igor Talzi (University of Basel, CH)
    Andreas Hasler (University of Zurich, CH)
    Stephan Gruber (University of Zurich, CH)
    Christian Tschudin (University of Basel, CH)
  • Image Browsing, Processing, and Clustering for Participatory Sensing: Lessons From a DietSense Prototype
    Sasank Reddy (University of California Los Angeles, US)
    Andrew Parker (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
    Josh Hyman (UCLA, US)
    Jeff Burke (University of California Los Angeles, US)
    Deborah Estrin (University of California at Los Angeles, US)
    Mark Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
  • Sensor Networks in Telecare
    Ian Neild (BT, UK)
10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Keynote

Radio sensors powered by ambient energy: from strange ideas to mass market products
Frank Schmidt (EnOcean GmbH, Germany)
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Session II: Deployment Longevity

  • SeeDTV: Deployment-Time Validation for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Hengchang Liu (University of Virginia, US)
    Leo Selavo (University of Virginia, US)
    John Stankovic (University of Virginia, US)
  • Software-based On-line Energy Estimation for Sensor Nodes
    Adam Dunkels (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE)
    Fredrik Osterlind (SICS, SE)
    Nicolas Tsiftes (SICS, SE)
  • Long-Duration Solar-powered Wireless Sensor Networks
    Peter Corke (CSIRO, AU)
    Philip Valencia (CSIRO ICT Centre, AU)
    Pavan Sikka (CSIRO, AU)
    Tim Wark (CSIRO, AU)
    Leslie Overs (ICT Centre, CSIRO, AU)
15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 15:30Overview of the EU Research Programme - including Opportunities for Research Collaboration with NSF
Rolf Riemenschneider (EU Commission)
15:30 - 17:00

Session III: Localisation

  • Ambient Beacon Localization: Using Sensed Characteristics of the Physical World to Localize Mobile Sensors
    Nicholas Lane (Dartmouth College, US)
    Hong Lu (Dartmouth College, US)
    Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, DZ)
  • Sensor Node Localisation using a Stereo Camera Rig
    Dermot Diamond (Dublin City University, IE)
    Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, IE)
    Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, IE)
    Stephen Beirne (Dublin City University, IE)
    Brian Corcoran (Dublin City University, IE)
    Philip Kelly (Dublin City University, IE)
    Kim Lau (Dublin City University, IE)
    Roderick Sheperd (Dublin City University, IE)
  • Robust Node Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Radu Stoleru (University of Virginia, US)
    John Stankovic (University of Virginia, US)
    Sang Son (University of Virginia, US)

Day 2: Tuesday, June 26

9:15 - 10:45

Session IV: Sensing

  • Orient-2: A Wireless Realtime Posture Tracking System Using Local Orientation Estimation
    Alex Young (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    Martin Ling (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    DK Arvind (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • An HMM Framework for Optimal Sensor Selection with Applications to BSN Sensor Glove Design
    Rachel King (Imperial College London, UK)
    Louis Atallah (Imperial College London, UK)
  • Acoustic Laptops as a research enabler
    Michael Allen (Coventry University, UK)
    Lewis Girod (UCLA, US)
    Deborah Estrin (University of California at Los Angeles, US)
10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Keynote

Towards General Purpose Sensing Systems
Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Session V: Communication

  • Reception Region Characterisation using a 2.4GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Radio
    Damien O'Rourke (Dublin City University, IE)
    Szymon Fedor (Dublin City University, IE)
    Conor Brennan (Dublin City University, IE)
    Martin Collier (Dublin City University, IE)
  • The Development of Environmentally Tested Antennas for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Dennis Laffey (Tyndall National Institude, IE)
    Brendan O'Flynn (Tyndall National Institute, IE)
    John Buckley (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, IE)
  • The 6LoWPAN Architecture - Using IP on Sensor Networks
    Geoff Mulligan (Proto6, US)
15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 16:45

Session VI: Software

  • Shaping TinyOS to Deal with Evolving Device Architectures: Experiences Porting TinyOS-2.0 to the Chipcon CC2430
    Nicholas Beck (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
    Ian Johnson (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
  • Adding Preemption to TinyOS
    Cormac Duffy (University College Cork, IE)
    Utz Roedig (InfoLab21, Lancaster University, UK)
    John Herbert (University College Cork, IE)
    Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork, IE)
  • Increasing the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks with a Distributed Testing Framework
    Matthias Woehrle (ETH Zurich, CH)
    Christian Plessl (ETH Zurich, CH)
    Jan Beutel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH)
    Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, CH)
16:45 - 17:00

Closing