Ideas on EWS
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Ideas
Terminology
- Disaster Management: A set of actions and processes designed to lessen disastrous effects either before, during and after a disaster [21].
Requirements
- Robust
- Decentralized: No single point of failure
- 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
Further Information
Disaster Management
- [11] Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, and Chandan Mazumdar: Secure Decentralized Disaster Managment Information Network
Early Warning
- [21] Werner-Allen, Johnson, Ruiz, Lees, Welsh: Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network
- [22] Werner-Allen, Lorincz, Ruiz, Marcillo, Johnson, Lees, Welsh: Deploying a wireless sensor network on an active volcano. IEEE Internet Computing, accepted, in press
- [23] A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, and J. Anderson: Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring. ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA’02), Atlanta, GA, USA, Sept. 2002.
Wireless Sensor Networks
- [31] Robert, Szewczyk, J. Polastre, A. Mainwaring, and D. Culler: Lessons from a sensor network expedition. Proc. 1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN ’04), January 2004.
- [32] J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. E. Culler, and K. S. J. Pister: System architecture directions for networked sensors. Proc. the 9th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, MA, USA, Nov. 2000, pp. 93–104.
- [33] Levis, Patel, Shenker, Culler: Trickle: A self-regulating algorithm for code propagation and maintenance in wireless sensor networks. Proc. the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2004.
- [34] Woo, Tong, Culler: Taming the underlying challenges of reliable multihop routing in sensor networks. Proc. the First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), November 2003.
Technology
- G. Werner-Allen and M. Welsh: MoteLab: Harvard Sensor Network Testbed.
- FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
- Moteiv Corporation: Telos Sensor Network Module
- Crossbow Technology Inc.