Ideas on EWS

Requirements

• Robust
• Cheap
• Timeliness: Online and Real-Time
• Opportunistic
• Scalability
• Networking interconnection (internal/external)
• Self-organization
• Unplanned (spontaneous) deployment
• dependability and accuracy
• Persistant storage
• Priorization of processing tasks
• ...

Application Domain: Early Warning for Earthquakes (Natural Disasters)

• Possible areas: Istanbul, Bucarest, ...
• Finely meshed network
• Long distance interconnection
• Online monitoring and processing
• Alarming (Early warning, Interrupt supplies)
• Storage of historical data
• Before and after disaster infrastructure
• Online shake-maps
• Typical processing patterns??

Additional Services

• public internet access,
• email delivery
• toll collection for the usage of roads
• ...

OTS Hardware/Software

• cheap COTS Router
• cheap COTS Sensosr Hardware
• IEEE 802.11 license-free radio
• BRN
• Linux/Click/...

Constrains

in

• processing time,
• computing power,
• memory,
• storage,
• networking bandwidth and
• latency