Sensor Nodes, UAV, Gateway...

http://resl.icu.ac.kr/~webpublic/military/index.html

Live demo: http://resl.icu.ac.kr/~webpublic/military/SBS%28RESL%29-ITRC.avi

Can cyborg moths bring down terrorists?

A moth which has a computer chip implanted in it while in the cocoon will enable soldiers to spy on insurgents, the US military hopes

At some point in the not too distant future, a moth will take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp.

But this will be no ordinary moth.

Inside it will be a computer chip that was implanted when the creature was still a pupa, in the cocoon, meaning that the moth’s entire nervous system can be controlled remotely.

The moth will thus be capable of landing in the camp without arousing suspicion, all the while beaming video and other information back to its masters via what its developers refer to as a “reliable tissue-machine interface.”

.......for more: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1831494.ece

Every device is a computation resource, and can be integrated as a part into the whole computation world. It is also the same with the little sensor node.

http://faculty.uoit.ca/liscano/projects.html#SensorNets

Very interesting thoughts and works, isn't it?

But I am afraid someone may only see these two hot topics (Grid and WSN) as "money machine" in the research field.

http://research.microsoft.com/%7Elyn/

http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/projects/sensecam/

a wide-angle (fish-eye) lens

These include light-intensity and light-color sensors, a passive infrared (body heat) detector, a temperature sensor, and a multiple-axis accelerometer. We have also experimented with the incorporation of audio level detection, audio recording and GPS location sensing into SenseCam. These sensors are monitored by the camera’s microprocessor, and certain changes in sensor readings can be used to automatically trigger a photograph to be taken.
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However, it is not a networked device.

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/cotsbots/index.html

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/cotsbots/relatedwork.htm

I like it and I think it may be the future of WSN.

http://www.nec.co.jp/eco/en/annual2005/02/2-2.html

It measures seven parameters, 1the temperature, 2humidity, 3atmospheric CO2 concentration, 4precipitation amounts, 5solar radiation amount, 6wind speed, and 7wind direction, every ten minutes and transmits this data to a server where it is compiled.

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/03/realtime_sensor.html

Goolge 地图和Sensor Network结合的好玩的东东,没办法,又是一个...

这个确实可以看的:)有实时采集数据.

http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~csclicx/IEEE802_15_4/

• Papers on IEEE 802.15.4
• Simulation software
• Bibliography
• About this document ...

http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/p/2007-05-16/2035444599.html

和SN结合的台湾省的Tseng Yu Chee实验室作过,
http://www.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~yctseng/papers.pub/sensor13-ipower-ics2006.pdf

还有国外已经成型的RoboMote.

和机器人网络最终的模糊化合并我觉得是一个趋势,就好像现在的"电视上网"和"电脑看电视"一样.

"反恐"也不止他们想到了,据说有老师在做的项目就是在HK的地铁站部署wsn反恐系统,呵呵.

GSN is a software middleware designed to facilitate the deployment and programming of sensor networks.

Using GSN, now you can leave all the nifty sensor network details behind and focus only on the high level application logic. Thanks to GSN's open API, you can quickly write sensor network applications by leaving the tedious task of managing low level hardware dependent details to GSN.

Furthermore, using GSN you can even develop sensor network software exploiting several heterogeneous sensor networks: imagine joining pictures coming from your wireless camera, tag IDs coming from a RFID reader and light readings from two other wireless sensor networks.

http://gsn.sourceforge.net/ web界面程序,将数据做更好的显示,果然,使用了Google地图...

http://lifeunderyourfeet.org

土壤监测的项目,Mote节点加上自己的传感器:http://lifeunderyourfeet.org/en/sensor/intro/sensortypes.asp

和MS合作的,最后把数据发布到http://research.microsoft.com/nec/senseweb/上来,肯定是按照标准的数据发布协议来做的.

地图和传感器网络结合,还是有些应用前景的,比如说车流监控,视频监控等等,大地域的监控,都能用的上,尤其是还显得特别花哨,是很不错的工程类项目的契机.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ntezcan/pins/index.html

motion detection

For our testbed, we have deployed 18 Tmotes to our lab. Some of our Tmotes have PIR sensors visually (or virtually) tracking the people's daily interaction with their habitat and monitoring the indoor conditions. To track the people in an indoor environment, we use PIR sensors. Detailed explanation on our experiments and findings will be available soon.

For motion detection, we connect a passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor to Tmote Sky. PIR sensor detects changes in infrared radiation which occur when there is movement by a person (or object) which is    different in temperature from the surroundings. As sensor detects temperature differences, it is well suited to detecting the motion of people by their body temperature. We have configured an analog (Parallax #555-28027) and a digital (Panasonic AMN44121) sensor for our testbed.

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~cintia/margi-tridentcom06.html

Abstract:

In this work we characterize the energy consumption of a visual sensor network testbed. Each node in the testbed consists of a "single-board computer", namely Crossbow's Stargate equipped with a wireless network card and a webcam. We assess energy consumption of activities representative of the target application (e.g., perimeter surveillance) using a benchmark that runs (individual and combinations of) ``basic'' tasks such as processing, flash memory access, image acquisition, and communication over the network. In our characterization, we consider the various hardware states the system switches through as it executes these benchmarks, e.g., different radio modes (sleep, idle, transmission, reception), and webcam modes (off, on, and acquiring image). We report both steady-state and transient energy consumption behavior obtained by direct measurements of current with a digital multimeter. We validate our measurements against results obtained using the Stargate's on-board energy consumption measuring capabilities.

http://www.citysense.net/

民用的传感器网络监测实验平台，应该被称作“大节点”。配置为：Each node will be relatively large--about the size of a Mac Mini computer. A node will include a PC that runs the Linux operating system and a couple of gigabytes of flash memory as a hard drive. And instead of using a common low-power wireless-sensor protocol called Zigbee, CitySense nodes will use standard Wi-Fi radios; two radios will be in each node, one for management and control of the network, and the other for experiments. And, Welsh says, virtually any type of sensor will be able to connect to the nodes.

功能为：A first batch of sensors will collect weather data such as rainfall, wind speed, and barometric pressure. Another set of sensors will measure pollution such as the amount of particles in the air. Researchers could use the weather data to understand how temperature or wind speed vary throughout the city, and doctors could use the pollution data to advise patients with asthma to stay away from certain areas at certain times of day. Eventually, more sensors could be incorporated: for example, motion sensors could measure traffic flow, and light sensors scattered throughout the city could monitor parking spaces; the data would be uploaded to the CitySense network.

摘自http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18533/

我比较倾向于这类的民用项目，感觉很有意思，尽管看上去绝对有单片机之嫌疑。毕竟，我们的小节点还是太不稳定，太难以控制了，至少目前是这样。