Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology Roadmap: Uday B. Desai B. N. Jain S. N. Merchant

Wireless Sensor Networks:
Technology Roadmap
Uday B. Desai
B. N. Jain
S. N. Merchant
A Project supported by Department

of Information Technology, Ministry
of Information and Communication
Technology, India
Table of Contents
Preamble……………………………………………………………………....3
Executive Summary…………………………………………………………...4
1. Introduction…………………………………………………………….....7
2. A Brief History of Wireless Sensor Networks…………………………....9
3. Current Research and Development Trends…………………………......12
4. Survey on WSN Hardware…………………………………………........16
5. Applications of WSNs ………………………………………………….19
6. Investment in WSN Research and Development………………………...23
7. Funding Policy…………………………………………………………...26
8. Recommendations………………………………………………………..27
9. Conclusions……………………………………………………...….…....28
10. References …………………………………………………………….…29
Appendix A: Survey form for Wireless Sensor Network Technology.....…...33
Appendix B: Survey Results………………………………………………....35
Appendix C: Summary of Workshop Presentations ………………………...46
Appendix D: List of important URLs related to WSN Research Development
and Deployment (RDD)…………………………………………………..….69
Wireless Sensor Networks 2

Preamble
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has emerged as an important area for research and
development. Though WSN is in its early stages, its impact is envisaged to be far
reaching, from daily life, to remote monitoring of environment, habitat, agriculture,
health care, automobiles, hazardous zones, disaster prone zones, defense applications to
probing of planets. Moreover they can be used for monitoring as well as control. In
fact, they form the basic constituent of ubiquitous sensing, communication, computing,
and control.
Realizing the importance of this area, the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology (MCIT), Department of Information Technology (DIT) decided that it
would be prudent to give a cohesive thrust to this very important area and to bring out a
white paper which has an Indian as well as an international perspective. With this in
mind a Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks was held at
IITB on April 20, 2007. The workshop was attended by over WSNs are natural
50 researchers working in this field. It included researchers progression to ICT
working on fundamental as well as applied aspects. systems that have
already made a
Subsequent to this, a WSN-Survey was sent out to over 200 major impact on
researchers in India as well overseas. As is with all surveys, business
about 10% of these responded. We are indeed thankful to productivity and
researchers who responded to this survey. The white paper our day to day
incorporates comments received from this survey. The lives.
comments were very encouraging and the overwhelming
perspective was that, India should give a major thrust to this area, since this is one of
the areas which will have a major impact on society. Since the workshop in April 2007,
a lot work has taken place in India in WSN. Nevertheless, it needs further impetus – in
particular in bringing together communication engineers, computer science researchers
and developers and mixed signal design engineers. Another thrust has been on the
design of sensors – in fact, communication and computing are at a much more
advanced stage then sensing technology. Moreover, the front end of any WSN is a
sensor, and consequently a major impetus is needed for sensor design and
development.

Executive Summary
Need for a thorough discussion on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) had been felt
considering the rapid progress in the research, development and deployment of WSNs.
The present report is an outcome of the one-day workshop on Wireless Sensor
Networks held on 20th April 2007 at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in which
prominent researchers working in the same area actively participated. This workshop
was funded by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT),
Department of Technology (DIT) and organized by Prof. U. B. Desai from Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay, Prof. S. N. Merchant from Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay and Prof. B. N. Jain from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
with a primary aim to provide guidelines to further accelerate research and
development in Wireless Sensor Networks. The workshops comprised of presentations,
demonstrations for various applications, brain storming sessions on technology
roadmap, bottlenecks, and most importantly follow up plan for the future of this
stirring and evolving technology.
Wireless Sensor Networks has been emerging from the vision of Smartdust
project in 1998 that required enabling both communication and sensing capabilities in
order of cubic millimeter. The Sensor Node, which is a basic element of Wireless
Sensor Network, is composed of Sensing, Computation
and wireless Communication unit. These sensor nodes The Sensor Node, which is
are hence capable of observing physical phenomenon, a basic element of
process the observed and received information and Wireless Sensor Network,
communicate the observed or processed information to is composed of Sensing,
the nearby sensor nodes to form a network of sensor Computation and wireless
nodes called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The Communication unit.
wireless networking capability of the sensor enabled
nodes, have resulted in various interesting applications ranging from surveillance,
smart homes, precision agriculture, disaster detection, underwater, to vehicular and
supply chain management applications.
Significant advances in sensing, computing and communication technologies

have led to the development of tiny, low power and powerful sensor nodes. This
resulted in realization that it can cater to several applications of extreme importance in
the present times leading to secure and more luxurious life which requires automation
and optimization of various processes based on intelligent sensing of physical
phenomenon. This in turn opened up research challenges that were initially appearing
to be application oriented and deployment specific but subsequently resulted in some
fundamental and theoretical findings. The research challenges with serious practical
applicability have attracted prominent researchers to contribute in this field. The key
technological contributions seen in the last decade were related to distributed detection
and information fusion; Routing and Clustering; Link Scheduling, Coverage,

Localization of sensor nodes, Time synchronization, Multimodal data fusion, Cross
layer optimization, Network coding, and Low power electronics design.
The salient features of the present report are:

- Wireless Sensor Network Survey Report: A survey was conducted among
researchers working in the field with a questionnaire (Appendix A) and
summary to this survey has been presented in Appendix B. This survey helps in
identifying various aspects of WSN research such as Potential drivers and
applications of WSNs, commercial drivers and potential markets, different
perceptions on future of WSN technology, most promising areas of WSNs,
efforts for standardization, and moreover potential barriers to the growth of
WSNs.
- The report includes more than 100 URLs (websites) on current activities on
Research Development and Deployment (RDD) of Wireless Sensor Networks
(refer Appendix D). These websites gives strong pointers to the current
applications projects, industries working in WSNs and research and
development trend of Wireless Sensor Networks.
- Ten recommendations on RDD of WSNs have been incorporated in this report.
These recommendations are the result of various brainstorming sessions held
during the workshop. The recommendations are very generic in nature and
provide simple guidelines on selecting target applications. For example, one of
the recommendations suggested is to provide access of Robots with embedded
WSN to younger generation to envision more applications of WSNs while
another recommendation is for government to take a big project to build a
Agricultural Sensor Map of entire country with having a couple of sensors on
every few acres of farming land.
- Summary of Presentations from the prominent researchers in WSNs made in
the workshop has also been provided in this report.
- Guidelines for Investment in WSN Research and Development are provided
based on the inputs made available during brainstorming sessions.
The present report is hence the consolidation of the intensive thought process of 50
researchers working in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks who participated on the
day of the workshop and around 20 researchers from the same field who extended their
help by participating in the WSN post-workshop survey. It is hence our belief that the
recommendations and guidelines provided in this report should provide new directions
and vision to work with Wireless Sensor Networks which has been one of the most
promising research areas in the last decade.
We would like to express our deep sense of gratitude to Communication Convergence

and Broadband Technology Group, Department of Information Technology, Ministry
of Information and Communication Technology. In particular, Mr. B. M. Baveja, who
patiently helped with various stages of this study. We would like thank the numerous
survey participants and the large number of Indian researchers who participated in the
workshop. The authors would like to thank Bhushan Jagyasi, formally a Ph.D.

candidate at SPANN Lab IIT-Bombay and at present a Scientist at TCS Innovation
Labs, Thane, Mumbai, for the help extended in the preparation of this report.

1. Introduction
Recent advances in sensing, computing and communication technologies
coupled with the need to continuously monitor physical phenomena have led to the
development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSN consist of four main
components: A radio, a processor, sensors and battery. A WSN is formed by densely
deployed sensor nodes in an application area. In most deployments, the sensor nodes
have self-organizing capabilities, to form an appropriate structure in order to
collaboratively perform a particular task. Wireless Sensor Networks are found suitable
for applications such as surveillance, precision agriculture, smart homes, automation,
vehicular traffic management, habitat monitoring, and disaster detection.
WSN is great enabling technology that can revolutionize information and

communication technology. In fact, it has the potential to significantly change the way
we live – just like the Internet and World Wide Web – perhaps more so. Of course,
WSN will exploit the Internet and WWW; it will connect the physical world to the
Internet at fine granularity. The power of WSN lies in creating a pervasive environment
capable of remote sensing, monitoring and control. The positive benefits of this are
quite obvious; such a technology will be a will achieve fine granularity tracking of
what is going on at far away and generally in
Wireless Sensor Networks
inaccessible locations. In the present scenario of global
are found suitable for
warming, WSN can enable fine grain remote
applications such as
monitoring of components responsible of for global
surveillance, precision
warming.
agriculture, smart homes,
automation, vehicular
The key constraints in the development of WSNs are
traffic management,
limited battery power, cost, memory limitation, limited
habitat monitoring, and
computational capability, and the physical size of the
disaster detection.
sensor nodes. Research and development in WSN
technology has been primarily application-driven. In
the last decade, extensive research has been done in: energy efficient hardware and
protocol design, identifying alternate power sources, distributed detection techniques,
multihop protocols, scheduling, cross-layer optimization, localization, time
synchronization and coverage. Most commonly used wireless communications
standard in WSNs is based on the IEEE 802.15.4, usually referred to as Zigbee. There
are three key areas that has received much less attention are: (i) very low cost and very
low power mixed signal design of the WSN radio chip, (ii) enhanced power sources
like low cost, small form factor photovoltaics, and (iii) low cost sensors technology for
different applications in particular biosensors.
WSN has opened up the challenge for distributed and cooperative computing and
communication. Since voluminous unstructured and heterogeneous data is going to be

communicated and collected at the central information processing station, it has
brought in a new challenge for distributed data mining.
Another dimension that is being added to WSN is closing the loop. This brings in the
convergence of sensing, communicating, computing and control (SC3). Moreover, all
these actions could be adaptive. This has given birth to a new filed, Cyber Physical
Systems or Internet of Things --- of course, both these encompass much more than
SC3.
The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Department of

Information Technology (DIT) has decided to bring out a white paper related to
Wireless Sensor Networks, with an Indian as well as an international perspective.
Hence a workshop was held at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on April 20,
2007. The workshop was attended by over 50 researchers working on fundamental and
applied aspects of WSNs. In Appendix A, further details of the one day workshop are
presented.
Subsequent to this a WSN-Survey form (Appendix B) was sent out to researchers in

India as well overseas. The suggestions were very encouraging and the overwhelming
perspective was that, India should give a major thrust to this area, since this is one of
the areas which will have a major impact on society.

2. A Brief History of Wireless Sensor Networks
History of development of sensor nodes dates back to the Cold War. A system
of acoustic sensors on the ocean bottom, for sound surveillance was deployed by USA
to detect and track Soviet submarines which is now used by the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for monitoring events in the
ocean, e.g., seismic and animal activity. During the same time, United States developed
the network of air defense radars to defend its territory, which now is also used for
drug interdiction.
Research on sensor networks started around 1980 with the Distributed Sensor
Networks (DSN) program at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
where Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet) approach for communication was extended
to sensor networks. The network was assumed to have many spatially distributed low-
cost sensing nodes that collaborate with each other but operate autonomously, with
information being routed to whichever node can best use the information.
Technology components for a DSN were identified in a Distributed Sensor Nets
workshop in 1978. These included sensors (acoustic), communication, processing
techniques and algorithms (including self-location algorithms for sensors) and
distributed software. Distributed acoustic tracking was chosen as the target problem for
demonstration.
The Accent (a network operating system that allows flexible, transparent access
to distributed resources needed for DSN) was developed at CMU (Carnegie Mellon
University). It then evolved into the Mach operating system, which found considerable
commercial acceptance. Other efforts at CMU included protocols for network
interprocess communication to support dynamic rebinding of active communicating
computations, an interface specification language for building distributed system
software and a system for dynamic load balancing and fault reconfiguration of DSN
software.
Further, in 1980s, a multiple-hypothesis tracking algorithm based on DSN was
developed by Advanced Decision Systems (ADS), Mountain View, CA, which dealt
with difficult situations involving high target density, missing detections, and false
alarms. MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed the real-time test bed for acoustic tracking
of low-flying aircraft for demonstrations. A PDP11/34 computer and an array
processor processed the acoustic signals. The nodal computer (for target tracking)
consists of three MC68000 processors with 256-kB memory and 512-kB shared
memory, and a custom operating system. Communication was by Ethernet and
microwave radio.
That was the state of the art in the early 1980s.
This interest rose with the DARPA low-power wireless integrated microsensors
(LWIM) project of the mid-1990s and continued with the launch of the SensIT project
in 1998, which focuses on wireless, ad hoc networks for large distributed military
sensor systems. A total of 29 research projects, from 25 institutions, were funded under
this project. A short list of the more prominent development efforts (not all funded
through SensIT) follows.

WINS
The University of California at Los Angeles, often working in collaboration with the
Rockwell Science Center, has had a Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS)
project since 1993. It has now been commercialized with the founding of the Sensoria
Corporation (San Diego, California) in 1998. The program covers almost every aspect
of wireless sensor network design, from micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)
sensor and transceiver integration at the circuit level, signal processing architectures,
and network protocol design, to the study of fundamental principles of sensing and
detection theory. The group envisions that WINS will provide distributed network and
Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors deeply embedded in equipment,
facilities, and the environment. The WINS communication protocol data link layer is
based on a TDMA structure; separate slots are negotiated between each pair of nodes at
PicoRadio
Jan M. Rabaey of the University of California at Berkeley started the PicoRadio

program in 1999 to support the assembly of an ad hoc wireless network of self-
contained mesoscale, low-cost, low-energy sensor and monitor nodes. The physical
layer proposed for the PicoRadio network is also direct
Research on sensor
sequence spread spectrum; the MAC protocol proposed
networks started around
combines the best of spread spectrum techniques and
1980 with the Distributed
Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). A node would
Sensor Networks program
randomly select a channel (e.g., a code or time slot)
at DARPA where Arpanet
and check for activity. If the channel were active, the
approach for
node would select another channel from the remaining
communication was
available channels, until an idle channel was found and
extended to sensor
the message sent. If an idle channel was not found, the
networks.
node would back off, setting a random timeout timer
for each channel. It would then use the channel with the first expired timer and clear
the timers of the other channels. Note that the PicoRadio program at Berkeley is
distinct from its perhaps better-known “Smart Dust” program, in which MEMS-based
motes “could be small enough to remain suspended in air, buoyed by air currents,
sensing and communicating for hours or days on end. The Smart Dust physical layer
would be based on passive optical transmission, employing a MEMS corner reflector to
modulate its reflection of an incident optical signal.
µAMPS132
The µAMPS program, led by Principal Investigator Anantha Chandrakasan at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts), is focused on the
development of a complete system for wireless sensor networks, emphasizing the need
for low power operation. Their work has led to the development of a sensor network
communication protocol called Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH).
LEACH features a node-clustering algorithm that randomizes the assignment of the

high-power-consuming cluster head function to multiple nodes in the network. This
spreading of the cluster head function to multiple self-elected nodes lengthens the
lifetime of the network.
Underwater Acoustic and Deep Space Networks
A wireless sensor network protocol has design features in common with protocols for a
wide range of network types, from underwater acoustic networks to deep space radio
networks. The need in oceanography for underwater acoustic networks, which share
the low power consumption, low data throughput, large physical area network
coverage, and high message latency tolerance characteristics of wireless sensor
networks, led to the development of several systems by the early 1990s. State-of-the art
underwater acoustic networks employ phase shift keying (PSK) in the physical layer, a
MACA-derived protocol for medium access control, and multi-hop routing
techniques142—all features that would be familiar to the designer of a wireless sensor
network protocol. Similarly, the strict power consumption constraints, ad hoc network
architecture, and tolerance of message latency requirements common in deep space
communication networks143 also are common with wireless sensor networks.
Conclusion
In the past 85 years, wireless data networks have gone from manually operated
transcontinental radiotelegraphic networks to fully automatic local and personal area
networks employing spread spectrum techniques. The methods of MAC, and network
organization and operation developed for early radiotelegraphic networks were often
independently reinvented for use in the computer communication networks that arose
from the development of packet-switched systems in the 1960s.
Although public funding of packet-switched systems development (mostly for defense

applications) has continued from the 1960s to the present, commercial development of
WLANs beginning in 1990 accelerated research in wireless packet data systems for a
wide variety of applications, including WPANs and wireless sensor networks. The
SensIT DARPA program supported 29 research programs in the field of wireless
sensor networks, and the first commercial interest in wireless sensor network systems
is now appearing.

3. Current Research and Development Trends
Applications and Deployment
Several applications have been benefited from the advances in wireless sensor
networks. These include Agriculture, Health Care, Defense, Wild Life Habitat
Monitoring, Under Water monitoring, Disaster Management (Safety) and Industrial
(monitoring, control, factory automation) applications. For all these applications,
research deployments have been conducted and products incorporating WSNs are
appearing. The current research hence focuses on application-driven systems in order
to address more concrete issues. Preliminary results obtained from these deployments
are encouraging and widespread use is highly likely.
WSNs are capable of enhancing system performance significantly so they hold

considerable promise to Industry. WSN technology is slowly graduating from the
researcher “market” to the early adopters in industry. Several start-up companies are
offering products in the sensor networking domain: Sentilla, Sensicast, Point8,
ArchRock, SynapSense, Crossbow, sensorial, and others. Industrial research labs have
also funded sensor networking research. In some cases, the technology is showing up
in vertical niche markets, e.g., in process control, where it is not even advertised as
WSN. The military continues to fund research in this area, now more so in the context
of aiding mobile dismounts/units, but is yet to seriously adopt the technology in its
operation.
A recent issue of IEEE Spectrum classified WSNs as one of the top 10 emerging
technologies. Eventually, it is felt by most of the research community that it will
pervade into daily life like the cell phone technology. WSNs may either connect to the
rest of the world through the cellular network or through the
WSN technology is
wired internet. In any case WSN impact on the traditional slowly graduating
networks is likely to be transformative, simply by taking into from the researcher
account the amount of data that will enter/leave as machines “market” to the early
talk to enterprises and other machines. WSNs have a major role adopters in industry.
to play in cyber-physical systems, pervasive computing, Body
Networks and Internet of Things.
According to Freedonia Group report on sensors, 2002, Sensor market in 2001 was
approximately $11 Billion while the Wiring installation costs were more than $100
Billion. With recent advances and availability of wireless sensor device that can be
battery powered the cost of wiring would be the major saving. Further over-the-air
programming and solar power sensor devices, helps in reducing the deployment and
maintenance cost to a large extent.

Activities Spurred due to WSNs
WSN research has spurred activity on several fronts:
Ad hoc networks
Distributed computing and decision making. This helps in more on
device computation in order to reduce network
traffic/communication and hence increase network life.
Low power electronics/low power modem design.
The current status of WSN technology includes algorithm design as well as
hardware design. However, the real challenge is deploying long-lasting systems in the
real environments given the issues such as energy efficiency, self-configuration (low
management cost) and low cost hardware design.
Contrasting views
Interest in WSNs across industry and academia continues to be very high, although we
are now experiencing a bit of a “backlash” due to the large number of academic
research groups getting involved and few successes commercially to date. The vast
popularity of WSNs as a research field for academia has left some to feel that it is
becoming difficult to make fundamental contributions although the field is still very
young. There is also a sense of ossification behind the TinyOS and mote platforms
which are premature since many application domains involve quite different hardware
and software demands than provided by that system. This “second system effect” will
likely subside over the next year or so and it will become clearer where the lasting
contributions and research directions lie.
Research Issues:
Some of the research issues are:
• Transducer design: Developing new sensor transducers that are compact,
low power, and cost effective. Bio-degradable / environment-friendly
sensor design.
• Electronic system design: The system design is one of the promising
challenge areas where several new breakthroughs are possible in the near
term leading to fundamentally new design directions. Integrating sensors
with the appropriate electronic circuitry to extract digital data, using sensor
feedback to enhance the data collection within the electronics, and
providing low noise outputs using sensor arrays.
• Node design: Developing low power sensor nodes with appropriate
processing and networking capabilities.
• System Design: Developing sensor networks of several nodes and
integrating them with application specific information systems.
• Protocol: Distributed algorithms, Power Aware Routing, Dissemination,
Time Synchronization, Security, Middleware, Localization of sensors, Data
aggregation Techniques, Multimodal sensor fusion, Energy-Efficient real-
time Scheduling. In the following section we briefly review research in
detection and tracking using WSNs.

Distributed Detection and Target Tracking
Here we present summary of some of the recent contributions in Distributed
Detection and Target Tracking using Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Phone
based Sensor Networks.
• Distributed Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks
In Ph.D. thesis [42], various data fusion (aggregation) algorithms useful for binary
event detection using wireless sensor networks have been proposed. The topologies
considered are sinlge-hop (star topology) and multihop (particularly tree topology) of
wireless sensor networks. The schemes proposed by Bhushan Jagyasi et al. in [39-42]
are capable to aggregate one-bit and multi-bit information from various sensor nodes.
The schemes ranges from that requiring complete knowledge of the a-priori
probabilities to the schemes which do not require any such a-priori knowledge. Further,
the proposed aggregation schemes are based on different criterions like, Bayesian or
likelihood ratio, Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) and adaptive Least Mean
Square (LMS) criterion. This versatility of the proposed methods makes them usable
for many practical scenarios.
• Tracking a Mobile Target using Energy Constrained Wireless

Sensor Network
The problem of estimating the location of a moving target ‘T’ in a 2D plane has been
considered in [38]. Vaishali Sadaphal et al. in [29-38] have assumed that it is possible
for sensors to detect the presence of the target in its vicinity and to (possibly) measure
the distance from/to the target. Given that available energy in sensors is at a premium,
the protocols are proposed for target detection and route activation that require sensors
to conserve energy by switching between ‘inactive’ and ‘active’ modes of operations,
while waking-up frequently in inactive mode to evaluate the need to become active.
Yet another method to save energy is to reduce the number of measurements and, as a
result, the number of transmissions. Even though the sensor will have to be in ‘wake-
up’ state (within the ‘active’ mode), a reduction in the number of messages
communicated can significantly reduce power consumption. Given an adequate spread
of sensors, and an ability to only detect presence or absence of the target within its
vicinity in a timely manner, it is feasible to obtain an approximate trajectory of a
mobile target as a function of time. Alternatively, distance measurements from several
such sensors may be used to estimate the location of the target T at a point of time.
Clearly, the latter approach is expected to track the target more accurately. However, it
will necessarily require that there be at least three sensors within the vicinity of the
target and, therefore, this approach requires a significantly greater density of sensors.
The error in estimating location of the target using distance measurements from
multiple sensors is shown to be dependent on two measures viz. proximity of sensors to
the target, and colinearity of sensors. In [38], a new measure, ideal direction for
selecting a 3rd sensor, given locations of 2 sensors and the location of the target has
been proposed. Algorithms to estimate the track of the target by using distance
measurements from sensors selected on the basis of the above measures have also been
proposed in [38].

• Multihop Cellular Sensor Networks (MCSN)
The ubiquitous use of cell phones motivates the idea of using cell phones and other
hand-held devices as carriers of sensors which when networked can cater to a large
number of urban applications (eg. environmental monitoring, urban planning, natural
resource management, tourism, civic hazard information sharing, crime patrolling etc.)
[45], [46], [47], [48]. Multihop Cellular Sensor Networks (MCSN), which combines
the advantages of mobile Cellular Sensor Networks (CSN) and the Multihop Cellular
Network (MCN) infrastructure has been advocated by Deepthi Chander et al. in [43-
44]. In addition to an increase in coverage and energy efficiency compared to a static
WSN, MCSNs can have the involvement of a human user (for eg. fire detection
application) to enhance the application. In [43] [44], Distributed Velocity Dependent
(DVD) Waiting Time based aggregation and routing protocol using MCSN for a
moving event localization application have been proposed.
The list of important URLs (websites) related to WSN Research, Development and
Deployment (RDD) have been included in Appendix D.

4. Survey on WSN Hardware
The fundamental unit of Wireless Sensor Network is a Sensor Node, also called
as mote by UC Berkley. Each sensor node is required to be capable of sensing,
processing and communicating the processed data to the neighboring nodes to form a
network. Sensor node is hence composed of sensors to sense the physical phenomenon,
analog to digital converter, microcontroller for controlling and data processing,
memory for algorithms and data storage, radio unit for short range wireless
communication and battery unit to power all the units. For many applications, if
feasible, solar powered chargeable battery units are used to minimize the failure of
sensors and maintenance cost.
Various kids of motes have been developed and made available by different
companies. An exhaustive survey on WSN hardware has been done by Tatiana
Bokareva*. The information on various sensors, sensor nodes, processor, radio chipsets,
sensor network operating system, protocols is available at
Sensor Network Museum†. Embedded WiSeNts’ Research Each sensor node is
Integration: Platform Survey ‡compares different WSN required to be
platforms, namely ESB/2, Tmote Sky, BTnode, Ambient capable of sensing,
Platforms (µNode and SmartTag), and EYES. It further processing and
compares Sensor network operating systems: TinyOS 1.x, communicating the
TinyOS 2.0, Contiki, BTnuts and Ambient RT; Simulation processed data to
environments: Tossim, Glomosim, Matlab, Avrora, OMNET++ the neighboring
and NS2; and various Testbeds. Here we present list of some of nodes to form a
the available motes with specifications and recommendations. network.
Available Motes
• MICA2:
The processor and radio board used is MPR400 which is based on Atmel
ATmega128L. The radio uses 868/916 MHz frequency band and supports data rate of
38.4kbps. A variety of sensors and data acquisition boards for the MICA2 mote are
available which can be connected to standard 51 pin expansion connector. Apart from
its basic function as sensor node, it can also function as a base station when interfaced
with MIB 510/MIB 520. The MIB510/MIB520 provides a serial/USB interface for
both programming and data communications. Theoretically, it supports 150meter of
outdoor range for line of sight communication (1/4 wave dipole antenna).
*
Tatiana Bokareva, Mini Hardware Survey,
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~sensar/hardware/hardware_survey.html, last access 12th Aug 2009.
†
The Sensor Network Museum, Home Page, http://www.snm.ethz.ch/Main/HomePage, last access 12th
Aug 2009.
‡
Can Basaran st al., Research Integration: Platform Survey Critical evaluation of platforms commonly
used in embedded wisents research, Embedded WiSeNts, available at http://www.embedded-
wisents.org/studies/wisents/download/download2.php, last access 12th Aug 2009.

• MICAz:
The processor board used is MPR2400 which is based on Atmel ATmega128L. The
MICAz (MPR2400) IEEE 802.15.4 radio (ZigBee compliant) offers both high speed
(250 kbps) and hardware security (AES-128). Direct sequence spread spectrum radio
provides resistance to RF interference and data security. The 51-pin expansion
connector supports Analog Inputs, Digital I/O, I2C, SPI and UART interfaces. It
supports 75-100 meter of outdoor range line of sight communication (1/2 wave dipole
antenna).
• Telos B:
The MICA2 and MICAz motes are found to be more suitable for field deployment
purposes. The Telos B motes has programming and data collection facility via USB
and is thus suitable for testbed deployment in lab for experimentation. It utilizes IEEE
802.15.4/ZigBee compliant radio (2.4-2.4835 GHz) which enables 250kbps of data
transfer. Its other features include 8 MHz TI MSP430 microcontroller with 10kB
RAM, Low current consumption, 1MB external flash for data logging, Integrated
onboard antenna, Optional sensor suite including integrated light, temperature and
humidity sensor (TPR2420).
• IRIS 2.4GHz:
It has improved radio range as compared to MICA2, MICAz and TelosB motes. It has
outdoor range over 300 meters (1/4 wave line of sight dipole antenna) and indoor range
of more than 50 meter (1/4 wave line of sight dipole antenna). The radio used is IEEE
802.15.4 compliant (2.4 to 2.48 GHz) which is a globally compatible ISM band which
enables 250kbps of data transfer. Apart from its basic function as sensor node, it can
also function as a base station when interfaced with MIB 510/MIB 520. The
MIB510/MIB520 provides a serial/USB interface for both programming and data
communications. It uses XM2110CA processor board that is based on the Atmel
ATmega1281. A single processor board (XM2110) can be configured to run your
sensor application/processing and the network/radio communications stack
simultaneously. As in Mica2 and MICAz, IRIS also possesses a 51 pin expansion
connector that supports analog inputs, digital I/O, I2C, SPI and UART interfaces.
• IRIS OEM Edition:

It is specially designed for sensor nodes for Mesh networking. The mote has postage
stamp size form factor. The Radio is IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee complaint (2.4 GHz global
compatible ISM band). It hence supports 250kbps data rate. It has 68-pin package
designed for easy sensor integration including light, temperature, RH, barometric
pressure, acoustic, magnetic, acceleration/seismic, etc. It utilizes XMeshTM software
technology, for low power reliable mesh networking.
• IMote 2.0:
It uses CC2420 IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceiver from Texas Instruments. CC2420
supports a 250kb/s data rate with 16 channels in the 2.4GHz band. It has a surface
mount antenna which supports nominal range of 30 meters. For long range SMA
connector can be soldered on board to connect external antenna. It utilizes Intel

PXA271 XScale® Processor at 13 – 416MHz. The PXA271 also includes a wireless
MMX DSP coprocessor to accelerate multimedia operations. It has OS support from
Microsoft .NET Micro, Linux, TinyOS. It uses 3 AAA size batteries. The Imote2 has a
built-in charger for Li-Ion or Li-Poly batteries. It has a 32 MB SRAM and 32MB Flash
RAM. It has a camera interface and useful for applications requiring Digital Image
Processing and Seismic and Vibration Monitoring.
• SunSPOT:
The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SunSOPT) is based on Java
platform (Squawk J2ME Virtual Machine) developed at Sun Labs. It uses ARM 920T
microcontroller. The radio used is IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee complaint. It possesses 512K
RAM for programs and data and 4MB external Flash.
• CRICKET MCS410: The MCS410CA, Cricket Mote, is a location aware

version of the MICA2. The Cricket Mote includes all of the standard MICA2 hardware
and an Ultrasound transmitter and receiver. By using ultrasound transmission, mobile
devises can estimate linear range estimates.
• Epic: It is an open mote platform for application driven design from UC

Berkeley [DTJJ2008]. The approach of modular component or building blocks has
been adapted which makes it useful for wider community and large range of
applications. It also claims for less expensively quicker deployment of systems.
Gateways
• Stargate:
Stargate is based on Intel XScale processor Intel PXA255 with 400MHz operating
speed. The complete design, which is developed by joint efforts of several research
groups, has been licensed to Crossbow Technologies for commercial production. It
works on Embedded Linux platform. It has various connecting options such as RS232
serial, 10/100 Ethernet, USB host and JTAG. It is compatible Stargate Netbridge
with Crossbow’s MICA2/MICAz family of family of WSN is based on Intel
products. It can hence be used as a gateway of WSN to the IXP420 XScale
existing Internet. 266Mhz processor
with Debian Linux
• Stargate Netbridge: operating system.
Stargate Netbridge is a WSN gateway developed by Crossbow
Technologies Inc., which is meant to connect WSN formed by Crossbow sensor nodes
to an existing Ethernet network. It is based on Intel IXP420 XScale 266Mhz processor
with Debian Linux operating system which is full fledged standard Linux for ARM
processors. It features one wired Ethernet and two USB 2.0 ports. It has a program
Flash RAM of 8MB, RAM of 32MB and a USB based system disk of 2GB. It displays
data when base station is connected onto its USB port using built-in Web server
MoteExplore and sensor network management tool XServe.

5. Applications of WSNs
Here we briefly present the role played by wireless sensor network in applications
ranging from environmental monitoring, industrial automation, agriculture, disaster
control, automotive, structure health monitoring,
1. Security and surveillance

Security and detection are the important applications of wireless sensor networks.
Sensor nodes with motion sensing capabilities may be deployed at the borders to
detect the intruder crossing the line of control. Hence surveillance of regions,
assets, perimeters, borders and cleared areas can be efficiently done by deploying
wireless sensor networks.
2. Environmental monitoring
Following are some of the projects and research plans sought in the environment
monitoring application of wireless sensor networks.
• Watershed: Correctly managing our watersheds is essential to ensure water
supply to the increasing human population in the world. Collecting data for
understanding the water systems of rivers and lakes including the impact of
environmental factors and human activity.
• Scientific investigation: Sensor networks are being used for various scientific
explorations including ecological and environmental ones.
• Pollution monitoring: Growing urban and industrial regions need efficient
pollution monitoring technology.
• Weather study (Singapore example http://nwsp.ntu.edu.sg/nwsp/): Detailed
measurements of weather phenomenon at fine granularity help manage weather
dependent industries such as agriculture and also help understand other effects
such as spread of epidemics.
• Threat-Identification: Sensors can be used to identify potential threats such as
chemical contamination of water distribution system at various locations,
pathogens in the environments, and other subtle changes in critical
infrastructure.
• Coal mine monitoring for poisonous gases
3. Creative industries
Wireless Sensor Networks has made a significant impact in the automation and
control of the industrial processes. The benefits of WSN in industrial applications
are to increase production efficiencies, to reduce environmental impact, to form a
close loop by both sensing and controlling various equipments at disjoint locations.
The sensor nodes can be placed at remote and manually inaccessible locations
because of their small size and capability to communicate wirelessly. The WSNs
are hence found useful for steel, chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, and
petroleum industries. Further the sensor nodes capability to sense and control the

atmospheric parameters makes them useful for pharmaceutical, fabrication and
cultivation industries.
4. Precision agriculture
Many initial deployments of wireless sensor networks have shown promise to
address various issues faced by rural community. With the help of WSNs, many of
the farming activities can be precisely done
resulting in yield optimization and minimization of With the help of WSNs,
the cost incurred in farming. The sensor nodes may many of the farming
be deployed on the field to measure various activities can be precisely
atmospheric and soil parameters. These can help in done resulting in yield
making decision on irrigation, fertilizer and optimization and
pesticide applications. The WSNs may also serve minimization of the cost
for the applications such as intruder detection, pest incurred in farming.
detection, plant disease prediction, fire detection,
automating irrigation etc. Some of the ongoing and past agriculture projects in
India are Agrisens§ [15], mKRISHI** [14], Agrosense†† [13] etc. Other important
problems that can be solved using WSNs include mushroom cultivation and cattle
tracking.
5. Disasters response
Wireless sensor networks are also found useful for detection of various disasters
such as Landslide [amrita], [16], Volcanoes [17], [18] and forest fire [19]. When
sensor nodes detect occurrence of any such events they communicate that
information to their neighboring nodes for in-network data aggregation. A cluster
head or sink node makes the decision on the disaster occurrence considering the
information received from various sensor nodes. Such collaborative decision
making improves the reliability of the decision made by the entire network [39-42].
6. Automotive/Vehicular
The usage of sensor nodes in the vehicles has led to envision of various automotive
applications of the wireless sensor networks. The cabling required to be done to
connect various sensors in any automobile can be redundant by using wireless
sensor nodes. This simplifies placement of the sensors resulting in more accurate
measurements. The vehicle to vehicle communication and vehicle to roadside static
node communication gives rise to enormous applications such as smart parking,
collision avoidance, multimedia data transfer, disaster detection, traffic information
communication. Vehicular WSN are also useful to prevent road accidents and
prevent vehicles from crashing into each other, prevent speeding streamline traffic
management. Some of these applications face the challenges of high speed
§
AgriSens, Wireless Network for Precision Agriculture, SPANN Lab, E.E. Dept, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay, Mumbai, http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~spann/agrisens.swf, last access Aug 2009.
**
mKRISHI, mobile based agro advisory system, TCS Innovation Labs Mumbai, Tata Consultancy
Services, http://tcsinnovations.com , last access Aug 2009.
††
AGRO-SENSE: Precision Agriculture using sensor-based wireless mesh networks, Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

multihop transmissions, considering high mobility of vehicles. The power constrain
of a WSNs may or may not be relevant, depending on the placement of the nodes,
in the automotive application.
7. Health (Body Area Networks)

Body area networks are formed by either wearing sensor nodes or implanting them
into the human body to measure various parameters. These are capable of
communicating wirelessly with each other and with a base station situated at
hospital and home in real-time. The sensor nodes are capable of observing critical
parameters of a patient to detect the occurrences of disease Body area
attacks such as heart attack, diabetes and asthma and networks are
communicate the same to the mobile device carried by a formed by either
family member and a doctor. Physiological sensors worn wearing sensor
by patients in their own homes can help doctors deliver nodes or
healthcare for regions where local healthcare staff is in implanting them
shortage or hospital beds are scarce. Such systems are also into the human
very useful for elder-care. body to measure
various parameters
8. Monitoring health of structures (like bridges) and communicate
A vast literature presents the advantages of deploying wirelessly to the
wireless sensor networks for monitoring health of the base station at
bridges as compared to traditional methods. Further, hospital.
protecting historical monuments by having sensors monitor
structural integrity, environmental factors, and usage loads are other applications of
wireless sensor networks.
The major issue of power requirement of the sensor nodes has been given due
consideration by proposing techniques like energy harvesting [20] and use of solar
panels. Park et al. in [21] has compared performance of MEMS accelerometer that come
with wireless sensor nodes with the traditional sensing devices. Accelerometer is
suggested to be used in [22], [23], [24] to measure vibrations when the trains pass over
bridges. They address issues related to time synchronization, routing, data collection,
aggregation from sensors and communication to a central device. More research is required
to detect health of bridges using other sensors such as temperature, humidity and corrosion
etc. Multimodal data fusion (from more than one type of sensors) techniques are hence
required to be developed to determine health of bridges.
9. Supply chain management

Wireless sensor networks along with RFID are found useful for managing the
temperature of food products as they traverse roads, sea and storage. The integrated
WSN with RFID are also envisaged for applications of preserving medicines
requiring stringent storage and transportation requirements.
10. Underwater Sensor Networks

Underwater Sensor Networks use acoustic communication due to the low
attenuation of acoustic waves in water, especially in thermally stable, deep water
settings. In shallow water acoustic communication is confronted with temperature
gradients, surface ambient noise and multipath propagation due to reflection and

refraction [26]. Sound has a low propagation velocity in water. The much slower
speed of acoustic propagation in water, about 1500 m/s, compared with that of EM
and optical waves, lead to large propagation delays which prevents efficient
communication and networking. Nevertheless, since the communication
technologies like EM waves and optical communication fail under water over large
distances, currently, acoustic communication is the preferred technology for
underwater communication.
In [25], a specific scenario has been considered where a set of underwater
sensor nodes report events to the sink node. A Path Unaware Layered Routing
Protocol (PULRP) for dense underwater 3D sensor networks is proposed for an
uplink transmission [25]. The proposed algorithm must combat frequent losses of
connectivity due to node mobility, energy depletion and must not result in large
end-to-end delay. The proposed PURLP algorithm consists of two phases. In the
first phase (layering phase), a layering structure is presented which is a set of
concentric shells, around a sink node. The radius of the concentric shells is chosen
based on probability of successful packet forwarding as well as packet delivery
latency. In the second phase (communication phase), we propose a method to
choose the intermediate relay nodes and an on the fly routing algorithm for packet
delivery from source node to sink node across the chosen relay nodes. The
proposed algorithm, PULRP finds the routing path on the fly and hence it does not
require any fixed routing table, localization or time synchronization processes. The
findings show that the proposed algorithm in [25] has a considerably better
successful packet delivery rate compared to the under water diffusion (UWD)
algorithm proposed in the paper by Lee et al. (2007) [28]. In addition the delay
involved in PULRP is comparable with that of UWD. In [27], the PULRP has been
further extended for a 2D UWSN with mobile nodes having a Random waypoint
steady state distribution, which is non-uniform. The findings show that for this case
of 2D UWSN with non-uniform node distribution, the proposed algorithm,
PULRP-2D, has considerably better throughput (successful packet delivery rate)
compared to the underwater diffusion (UWD) algorithm for various node densities
as well as node velocities. Also, the delay performance of PULRP-2D is better than
that of UWD.
11. Future markets

Urban (shopping malls, metro train stations, bus stops‡‡) and residential security is
a great opportunity where monitoring services can generate widespread
employment. In essence each system has a central controller and several wireless
motes (sensors to detect motion, door opening etc). India’s leadership in providing
services globally can be leveraged to great advantage if we can develop a
technology leadership in security surveillance system design. Remote monitoring
service for a single home in the US typically costs $10-$100 per month and
involves mainly responding to alarm phone calls – Indian industry can be more
competitive in providing such a service.
‡‡
Several commercial products already exist:
http://www.safemart.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=1018

6. Investment in WSN Research and Development
We present a summary of the survey on the potential markets and commercial
importance of wireless sensor networks in order to provide direction for investment in
WSN research and development.
Potential Markets and commercial drivers

1. Military and Security
2. Tele-health and Medical Monitoring.
3. Rural health monitoring
4. Agriculture: Monitoring farms, soil moisture, and environmental factors
that impact plant growth and disease propagation.
5. Cold chain: Managing the temperature of food products as they traverse
roads, sea and storage.
6. Medicine storage parameters tracking.
7. Watershed monitoring and Water supply management.
8. Ecological and Environmental Scientific investigation
9. Pollution monitoring in urban and industrial area.
10. Protecting historical artifacts.
11. Sea-port water depth and traffic monitoring for
The collaboration
efficient management.
should be tripartite
12. Threat-Identification or Event Detection.
including,
13. Structural health monitoring
Government
14. Automation
Agencies,
15. Medical Monitoring
Academia and
16. High Value Asset Tracking
Industry, for
17. Consumer Devices
complete research-
18. Urban (shopping malls, metro train stations, bus
development-
stops) and residential security.
deployment cycle
19. Coal mine monitoring for poisonous gases
Tripartite Collaboration
The collaboration should be tripartite including, Government Agencies, Academia
and Industry, for complete research-development-deployment cycle of WSN
applications. Equally important roles are there to play for all the three agencies in terms
of finance, research and commercializing leading to complete end to end deployment
of the WSN for emerging applications. It is indeed very important for all the three to
cohesively work to exploit the capabilities of WSN specifically to provide solutions in
Indian context.
Role of the academia is to solve various research problems relating to design and
development of WSNs. Funding is expected to motivate the research and development.
Early prototypes can then be commercialized with help of industry partners. Again
some seed fund for such commercial efforts would be of great help.

The participating industry should have the responsibility of doing market survey,
identification of products and their specifications, price structure and must take
responsibility of manufacturing and deployment. The industry must be fully committed
and must be a stakeholder driving the academia to deliver on time. The industry can
help academic researchers understand the practical issues, interfacing requirements
and immediate needs.
The Government must fully finance the theoretical research part of the project and may
demand royalties from the industry at a later date. Partnerships with the government
can focus on establishing new standards for application domains that benefit from
sensor networks. Structures of public utility, like bridges, dams, roads, railway line etc
could be made safe by the use of WSNs. Government should take initiative in taking
up defining requirements, disseminate any data at its disposal and take up pilot
projects. In this context, academia is required to contribute towards developing
innovative sensors and the industry needs to take on the turnkey project execution.
Some partnerships have already been started, for example:

• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay/ Microsoft Research
• Indian Institute of Science Bangalore/ Defense Research Development
Organization.
Cross Disciplinary activities in WSN

a. Landslide detection requires interdisciplinary collaborations between
departments such as Earth Sciences – Electrical Engineering –Computer
Sciences Engineering.
b.Precision agriculture application requires contributions from researchers and
scientist from agricultural universities, electrical engineering department and
computer science and engineering department
c. Structure (like bridges) health monitoring (Civil Engineering– Electrical
Engineering –Computer Sciences Engineering.)
d.Vehicular applications (Automotive Engineering – Electrical Engineering –
Computer Sciences Engineering)
e. Medical monitoring/ Body network applications (Medical universities –
Biomedical engineering – Electrical engineering and computer science
engineering)
f. Pharmaceutical application such as drug temperature tracking
(Pharmaceutical department - Engineering –Computer Sciences Engineering)
Bottleneck in WSN RDD (Research Development and Deployment)

a. Affordable motes and Sensors: The cost of the sensors should be low enough to
make WSN solution feasible for real deployments. Further, the deployed WSN
is required to be run unattended for years while delivering the minimum
required performance for a particular application. Moreover, until now
demonstration of WSN capability at an affordable cost to gain market
acceptability and penetration is lacking.

b.Economy of scales: Design and maintenance at large scale will require new
engineering design directions. As opposed to programming single data sources,
engineers must think of systems of multiple nodes where they cannot carry out
each design step thinking about individual nodes. Rather thinking about
ensembles, where high level properties of a group of nodes are used in higher
layer design will be needed.
c. Not enough attention paid to (a) sensors, (b) packaging, (c) antenna design, and
(d) deployment. Until these problems are solved, adopters will not go broad-
scale or mainstream.
d.Lack of skilled manpower with a combination of expertise in Hardware,
Systems Software, and Embedded Software with possibility of also lack of
knowledge in Web and Distributed Applications. A huge and critical barrier is
the shortage of PhD students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
discipline.
e. Since most of the applications of WSN are interdisciplinary, it is required to
integrate IT with Application Domain Expertise.
f. Broad deployment cycle: The modeling - theory - prototyping - deployment
cycle is very broad for typical WSN applications. Management of
complementary expertise to complete an end-to-end system and persistent
efforts over several generations of the system may be needed to provide a good
solution.
g.WSN have to use unlicensed spectrum. Thus spectrum issues need to be
resolved. The unlicensed bands are ISM bands like 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz bands
and the 3-10.6 GHz band for UWB wireless technology. These bands are
already overcrowded and thus spectrum policy allowing the UWB band should
also be activated in India, since it’s a wider band and can accommodate more
devices / mm2 and help in reducing interference between devices.
h.Need to give an impetus for sensor development. A lot of work has gone into
communication and protocol development, but much less into sensor
developments. The key component of any and every WSN is a sensor and
therefore sensor development does need a major impetus.

7. Funding Policy
There are already various mode of funding available in India. But it was felt
that some new avenues of funding could be explored. We enumerate some of
these which could have a major impact on research, development, prototyping
and incubation of WSN technologies.
Need to move forward an set up virtual centers

o Each Center to have collaborations among several disciplines
o Each virtual center to have participation from at least three
academic institutions / organization / industries (i.e. it could be
only three academic institutions, or two academic institutions
and one industry, etc.)
Need a long term policy – Should fund for at least 10 years in a
phased manner.
Provide funding for incubating developments that take place form
project mode funding. Here a model can be developed wherein a non-
profit society driven by DIT holds equity.
Funding for hosting international collaborations, workshops and
conferences on the theme of WSN.
Special consideration could be given to WSN projects dealing with
green growth.
Specific funding for hosting postdoctoral fellows could be developed.
This should include post doctoral fellows from the international arena.
Such funding can be a big boost R and D in WSN and application of
WSN to Green Growth.
A fundamental shift in funding has to develop wherein one is looking
at long term horizon. It may worth developing a strategy for funding 5
year projects as opposed to the usual mode, wherein 2 to 3 year
projects are preferred. Of course, even in long term funding, there has
to be periodic reviews and the next phase funding should be based on
performance.

8. Recommendations
1. Virtual centers. Tree Structure. IITs/IISc should act as nodal points with NITs
and Local colleges from neighboring areas (states and cities) as leaf nodes.
2. WSNs should be made available in schools as demos and items to play with. It
will be great to have Robots equipped with WSN technology for yet to be
imagined applications by young minds. Have open house or take demos to
schools etc. Develop a WSN+Robo toy like the LEGO for children to play with.
3. When building new national infrastructure like bridges, roadways, etc., WSN
technology should be built into it. This will avoid retrofitting.
4. Agriculture being one of the largest sectors of Indian It will be great to

Business, Government of India should allocate more have Robots
funds for deploying WSNs for precision agriculture for equipped with
the coming years. The aim should be to cover every acre WSN for yet to be
of farming land with at least two sensor nodes resulting in imagined
a nation wide soil and climate map (sensor map) for applications by
entire country. young minds.
5. Initially, target applications could be set of applications those are important

and challenging, yet do-able.
6. Tripartite Collaboration between Academia, Government and Industry.
7. WSN funding must have an interdisciplinary team. This is because most of the
applications catered by WSN require application domain knowledge as much as
engineering and designing skills.
8. Support sensor development research in industries.
9. Actively support WSN for healthcare / body area networks. This could be one
of the biggest driver for adoption of WSN
10. Developing WSN for RFID applications. This can cater to various applications
related to storage and transportation of food and drug.

9. Conclusions
The area of WSN is thriving and every day new ideas are emerging. A strong
testimony to this is the recent report on Smart Sensor Networks: Technologies and
Applications for Green Growth, by OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, Dec. 2009 [49]. This report contributed to the OECD Conference on
“ICTs, the environment and climate change”, Helsingør, Denmark, 27-28 May 2009,
and is a contribution to the OECD work on Green Growth.
Thus, it is envisaged that WSN could become a major driver for Green Growth. As has
been mentioned at various stages of the report and also brought by the survey, WSN
has been a bit slow to take off, but once it takes off there will be no stopping it. What is
needed is something like the microprocessor and DSP chip revolution where the costs
came down by orders of magnitude, processing power went up immensely and energy
consumption came down dramatically. This will happen if we develop novel and cost
effective mixed signal design technology for WSN chipsets.
Another area which needs a tremendous impetus to make sure that WSN thrives is
sensor technology. Perhaps the weakest link in the chain of technologies of WSN is
sensor technology. Sensors are very expensive, partly because of niche technology and
also because of niche applications. Ubiquitous use of sensors for various day to day
applications, as promised by Internet of Things, will indeed help in bringing the cost
down for sensors.
Nevertheless, the area of biosensors is wide open. Bio-Wi-sensor networks could turn
out to be the biggest applications of WSN. Everything hinges on development of
biosensors. Significant financial resources need to be committed to the development of
biosensor in India. It is going to be very difficult to buy biosensors from overseas, and
thus very imperative that India puts in the requisite resources for development of
biosensors.
All in all, when we look at WSN, we need to think of a long haul game. We need to be
in the running for a long time and then good things n WSN will indeed emerge for
India.

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Appendix A
Survey for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Technology

(Sponsored by Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology, India)
Conducted by Uday B. Desai <ubdesai@ee.iitb.ac.in> B. N. Jain
<bnj@cse.iitd.ac.in> and S. N. Merchant <merchant@ee.iitb.ac.in>
Name:
Phone:
E-mail:
Address:
Preamble
It was felt by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Department of
Information Technology (DIT) that it will be prudent to give a cohesive thrust to this very important area.
With this in mind a workshop was held at IITB on April 20, 2007
(http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/spann/wsn_workshop.html). We felt that in the globalized world it was important
to have perspective from a global audience. Thus, we now embark on soliciting opinions from researchers
worldwide.
Please do spare a few minutes of your precious time for filling out this survey form. Email the filled out
form to undesai@ee.iitb.ac.in by November 15, 2007
1. Current status and importance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
2. What is your perception for the future of WSN?
3. Which areas in WSN are most promising?
4. Potential drivers and applications for WSN?
5. How resources should be distributed among:

1. Theoretical Research
2. Practical Research

3. Deployment
6. What are the commercial drivers and potential markets?
7. What efforts for standardization
8. What are the potential barriers to growth
9. What kind of partnerships to evolve between industry, academia, and

government for
growth in WSN technology for India
10. Any other comments

Appendix B
Survey Results
A survey on Future of Wireless Sensor Network Technology has been conducted by circulating
Survey form given in Appendix A to prominent researchers working in the filed of Wireless
Sensor Networks. As many as 17 top notch researchers from India and abroad responded to this
survey. Following is the list of researchers who have contributed in this survey.
• Aman Kansal
• Anish Arora
• Anurag Kumar
• Bhaskar Raman
• K. R. Sarma
• Mahesh U. Patil
• Matt Welsh
• Nabanita Das
• Onkar Dabeer
• P. R. Kumar
• Pramod K. Varshney
• Rama Murthy, Garimella
• Sanjay Jha
• Vinayak Naik
• Vishal Chandra
• Viswanatha Rao Thumparthy
• Shaheed Khan
Following is the summary of the Survey report:
1. Current status and importance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
Status:
1. Research deployments have been conducted and products are appearing. Research
Prototypes and PoC's are seen all across the world including India. However, not many
hardware products are manufactured in India for WSN.
2. Network Protocols: The simpler problems of network setup, mesh protocols have now
been worked on and nearing solution.
3. Application Driven: More current research is now focused on application driven
systems – so that more concrete issues can be addressed.
4. Comparison with other technologies of the generation: A recent issue of IEEE
Spectrum classified WSNs as one of the top 10 emerging technologies.
5. Hardware: There is also a sense of ossification behind the TinyOS and mote platforms
which are premature since many application domains involve quite different hardware
and software demands than provided by that system. This “second system effect” will
likely subside in some time and it will become clearer where the lasting contributions
and research directions lie.

6. Industry and Academia: Interest in WSNs across industry and academia continues to
be very high, although we are now experiencing a bit of a “backlash” due to the large
number of academic research groups getting involved and few successes commercially
to date. The vast popularity of WSNs as a research field for academia has left some to
feel that it is becoming difficult to make fundamental contributions although the field
is still very young.
7. Challenges: Several research issues such as energy efficiency, self-configuration (low
management cost) and low cost hardware design are some of the important challenges
for this technology’s success.
Importance:
• Funding: Several applications stand to benefit from sensor networks. WSN’s have
received enormous research funding (in US, Europe, and Asia) over the last 10 years.
Examples include research centers such as CENS (http://research.cens.ucla.edu/) in the
US and Swiss Ex http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/SwissEx/index.php/Main_Page, and
several other projects. Asian countries including China, Singapore, and Taiwan have
several projects in sensor networks as well. Several start-up companies are offering
products in the sensor networking domain: Sentilla, Sensicast, Point8, ArchRock,
SynapSense, Crossbow, sensorial, and others. Industrial research labs have also funded
sensor networking research:
http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/SensorMap_RFP_Awards_2007.
aspx The military continues to fund research in this area, now more so in the context
of aiding mobile dismounts/units, but is yet to seriously adopt the technology in its
operation. This is historically consistent with it being the visionary for technology but
being a slower adopter than the industry.
• Applications: WSNs will not have one killer app. They are likely to have many! Most
discussions of this topic go into the lengthy (and sometimes identical) list of
application domains and a number of these areas over time will pan out. Whether they
connect to the rest of the world through the cellular network or the wired internet,
WSN impact on the traditional networks is likely to be transformative, simply by
taking into account the amount of data that will enter/leave as machines talk to
enterprises and other machines. In Indian context, it mainly influences Agriculture,
Health Care, Defense, Surveillance, Wild Life Habitat Monitoring, Medical, Under
Water WSN and Disaster Management. Thus Potentially WSN can enable a lot of
applications for improving the efficiency of industries (industrial monitoring, factory
automation), energy saving (home automation, Lighting / HVAC systems),
wildlife/agriculture (monitoring animals / soil), safety (fire-detection systems) etc.
However WSN are currently not widely deployed or used. Thus despite the promise of
WSN, due to the lack of technology at the right performance / price, we do not see
WSN entering the mainstream.
Thus it is a unanimous belief that the area of WSN is currently under research and
development. Several exploratory deployments have taken place. Preliminary results are
encouraging and widespread use is highly likely. WSNs are capable of enhancing system
performance significantly so they hold considerable promise. It is also believed that it will
pervade into daily life like the cell phone technology.
2. What is your perception for the future of WSN?

WSN technology is the outcome of advances in sensor, transceiver, memory and
microcontroller technologies which are all integrated on one board to form a basic element of
WSN called sensor node. WSNs are a natural extension to IT systems that have already shown
vast potential for improving business productivity. Moreover, this is a direct outgrowth of
technological innovations and societal needs.
The future of WSN, as perceived by various researchers, is in its evolution in multiple
directions. This has been summarized below:
Integration:
• More and more real time sensor information is expected to get integrated from sensors
into business information systems.
• RFID sensor data is now reaching global standardization (Eg.
http://www.epcglobalinc.org/home and integration of RFID with GPS based mapping
systems for tracking).
• Sensors embedded on Mobile phones forming “Cellular Sensor Networks (CSN)” has
been considered to be another important research area resulting in another set of novel
participatory sensing applications. The involvement of human in maintaining the
sensor nodes (mobile phone) solves major issues like deployment and power efficiency
in WSNs. However this has another constraint of mobility of nodes which leads to
form a more dynamic network.
• Research on incorporating UWB transmission in Wireless sensor networks envisages a
shift to cater high data rate applications, unlike low data rate applications which are
more often considered in the present scenario.
Future Applications
• The use of sensors in other domains is gaining increased attention, ranging from cold-
chain management, security, infrastructure monitoring, to scientific exploration.
• This field has tremendous potential for applications in public domains. With the
development of new application specific sensors along with the appropriate networking
protocol, data aggregation model, routing and scheduling techniques sensors can
invade all spheres of life to assist humans for better life.
• WSNs has a great potential in many application domains, resource monitoring,
environmental monitoring, defense applications, traffic systems, health care, precision
agriculture, etc. The potential is so great that it is hard to think of what areas may be
unaffected by developments in this area.
Hence a widespread use of WSN is expected in the future
Technological Advances
On the technology side, some of the initial design assumptions are giving way to more practical
designs learned through experiences in deployments and experiments. For instance, practical
systems may not be peer to peer ones with large number of nodes in a mesh network but
hierarchically organized with some higher power nodes every few hops. As more and more
practical systems are developed, the usefulness of sensor networks will continue to become
clearer.
Standardization
Going by the standardization efforts (Zigbee), and the race to build proprietary products
(Honeywell, ABB, Hitachi) it appears that the industry has a lot of expectations as well.

Bottlenecks
• No major commercial deployments, as yet.
• Extremely low power consumption and compact high capacity power sources are two
of the major bottlenecks.
• Due to the use of unlicensed spectrum, interference by other technologies, especially
WLAN could be a challenge.
It is widely believed that the field will continue to grow as the idea of remotely able to retrieve
sensory data and then closing the loop by sending control signals is exciting. Hence, despite the
challenges there would be demand in the industry to work on WSN products.
3. Which areas in WSN are most promising?
Some of the research issues, as suggested by the researchers working in the area, which holds
promise for the future of WSN technology, are summarized here.
Research Issues:
• Transducer design: Developing new sensor transducers that are compact, low
power, and cost effective. The space of interesting sensors is yet to be seriously
explored, and will result in much more serious adoption. Bio-degradable /
environment-friendly sensor design is another challenging area with good research
potential.
• Electronic system design: Integrating sensors with the appropriate electronic
circuitry to extract digital data, using sensor feedback to enhance the data
collection within the electronics, and providing low noise outputs using sensor
arrays.
• Node design: Developing low power sensor nodes with appropriate processing and
networking capabilities.
• System Design: Developing sensor networks of several nodes and integrating them
with application specific information systems. System design is one of the most
promising challenges where several new breakthroughs are possible in the near
term leading to fundamentally new design directions.
• Distributed Algorithm: Distributed energy efficient algorithms for data
aggregation, routing, scheduling, clustering, time synchronization and localization
are some of the extensively researched area for single-hop and multi-hop Wireless
Sensor Networks.
4. Potential drivers and applications for WSN?

Potential Drivers:
1. Cost of wiring in retrofitting sensing infrastructure.
2. Cost of sensing in “low visibility” setting. Traditional sensors under perform in many
scenarios because of topological constraints.
3. Low power computing technology.
4. Needs for coupling fine grain observation with (largely) automatic

monitoring/alerting/control.
Applications:
Design of WSNs to cater novel applications have been the prime focus of the researchers

working in the field of WSNs. Applications envisaged with the development of WSNs
technology are:
• Defense and Surveillance,
• Event Detection (Management of natural disaster like Tsunami, Landslide, Cyclone
etc.)
• Process industry (chemical plants),
• Structure (road, bridges etc) monitoring,
• Water management,
• Precision Agriculture,
• Vehicular WSN,
• Medical monitoring (health care),
• Wild life habitat Monitoring,
• Data collection in remote hostile environments,
• Under water WSN
• Location Tracking and
• More than sensors, Robotics, Art, Toys and Personal Electronics
5. How resources should be distributed among:

4. Theoretical Research
5. Practical Research
6. Deployment
According to the feedback of 15 researchers on allocation of resources between Theoretical,

Practical and Deployment work in WSNs, following table has been complied.
Allocation of Resources
Researcher Theoretical Research Practical Research Deployment Total
1 20.00 40.00 40.00 100.00
2 33.33 33.33 33.33 100.00
3 33.33 33.33 33.33 100.00
4 0.00 0.00 100.00 100.00
5 20.00 40.00 40.00 100.00
6 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00
7 20.00 50.00 30.00 100.00
8 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00
9 25.00 25.00 50.00 100.00
10 33.33 33.33 33.33 100.00
11 30.00 40.00 30.00 100.00
12 40.00 30.00 30.00 100.00
13 33.33 33.33 33.33 100.00
14 25.00 50.00 25.00 100.00
15 20.00 50.00 30.00 100.00
Total 433.33 508.33 558.33 1500.00
Percent 28.88888889 33.88888889 37.22222222

Allocation of Resources
Theoretical
Deployment Research
37% 29%
Practical
Research
34%
Theoretical Research is about theorem proving/mathematical analysis for relevant models and
"Practical Research/Deployment considers design and implementation often based on adhoc
methods. Both these are complementary tools with their own advantages/disadvantages.
The first wave of theoretical research seems to be complete. At this stage, a little more
attention to practical research (such as interference patterns with WLAN in a home
environment etc) and large scale deployment may be required. Practical research takes inputs
from Deployments and gives inputs to Theoretical Research. More importance should be given
on deployments in the field. Depending on whether or not any significant research issues arise
after this, attention can then be focused on theoretical or practical research. This will also result
in consideration of Practical assumptions in Theoretical research. More focus on deployment
would result in translation of large body of theoretical work into real systems. This in-turn will
need revision of theory. Hence resources to theoretical research should also not be ignored
completely. This will help the theoretical research efforts to be tied to the real-world problems.
6. What are the commercial drivers and potential markets?
Commercial Drivers and Potential Markets:

• Companies like Crossbow, Meshnetics, Sentilla and Manufacturing sensing related
equipments.
• Govt. regulations which push some WSN applications can act as commercial drivers.
• Security space is perhaps the first key driver along with manufacturing.
• Current design may be useful for a wide range of early commercial applications:
Agricultural Monitoring, Structural Monitoring, Automation, Medical Monitoring,
Military, High Value Asset Tracking, Security, Consumer Devices
• Industrial monitoring, Industrial process control, supply-chain, and medical monitoring
are potentially large markets.
• Pipeline management, Rake management in Railways, Sea level monitoring, air traffic
management systems are some of the examples which have shown considerable
potential of WSN in civilian sector.

• Seismic Networks: Avalanche Monitoring, Ground water management, River water
management have also shown potential market for WSN deployment.
Opportunities to build global leadership:

20. Tele-health: Physiological sensors worn by patients in their own homes can help
doctors deliver healthcare for regions where local healthcare staff is in shortage or
hospital beds are scarce. Such systems are also very useful for elder-care.
21. Agriculture: Monitoring farms, soil moisture, and environmental factors that impact
plant growth and disease propagation.
22. Cold chain: Managing the temperature of food products as they traverse roads,
sea and storage.
23. Watershed: Correctly managing our watersheds is essential to ensure water
supply to the increasing human population in the world. Collecting data for
understanding the water systems of rivers and lakes including the impact of
environmental factors and human activity.
24. Scientific investigation: Sensor networks are being used for various scientific
explorations including ecological and environmental ones.
25. Pollution monitoring: Growing urban and industrial regions need efficient pollution
monitoring technology.
26. Weather study (Singapore example http://nwsp.ntu.edu.sg/nwsp/): Detailed
measurements of weather phenomenon at fine granularity help manage weather
dependent industries such as agriculture and also help understand other effects
such as spread of epidemics.
27. Protecting historical artifacts and monuments by having sensors monitor structural
integrity, environmental factors, and usage loads.
28. Sea-port water depth and traffic monitoring for efficient management
29. Defense: Surveillance of borders and strategic control points in harsh and remote
locations.
30. Threat-Identification: Sensors can be used to identify potential threats such as
chemical contamination of water distribution system at various locations,
pathogens in the environments, and other subtle changes in critical infrastructure.
Opportunities specific to developing countries:

1. Urban (shopping malls, metro train stations, bus stops) and residential security is a
great opportunity where monitoring services can generate widespread employment.
Several commercial products already exist: see
http://www.safemart.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=1018. In
essence each system has a central controller and several wireless motes (sensors to
detect motion, door opening etc). India’s leadership in providing services globally can
be leveraged to great advantage if we can develop a technology leadership in security
surveillance system design. Remote monitoring service for a single home in the US
typically costs $10-$100 per month and involves mainly responding to alarm phone
calls – Indian industry can be more competitive in providing such a service.
2. Chinese researchers have built systems where they use taxi mounted GPS data streams
to monitor urban traffic conditions. Unlike the developed world where road embedded
sensors give real time traffic information (http://trafficmap.cityofbellevue.net/),
developing countries can leverage the high density of taxis in major urban areas to get
similar information.
3. Coal mine monitoring for poisonous gases
4. Bangladesh Arsenic contamination: discussed briefly in some of the videos near the

bottom of the page at http://dms.jamesreserve.edu/
5. Computing in rural areas: http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-

post/mvis/mvis?ID=658
7. What are efforts for standardization
It is common overall view that high efforts are required for the standardization of
WSNs, since it would involve standardization of radio, hardware, software on motes
(middleware as well as EOS along with communication and sensing interfaces), and
middleware on the distributed server.
Some of the existing standardization efforts resulted in
• 802.15.4 for low power MAC layer using open spectrum radios
• EPC for RFID sensors
• Electronic datasheets IEEE 1451
• Zigbee for upper layers in the stack such as network layer
• The IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (IP/6LoWPAN) is
IPv6 Network stack for Wireless Sensor Networks in which sensor nodes can
communicate using protocols such as ICMP, TCP and UDP. As compared to
IEEE 802.15.4, the IP/6LoWPAN provides more convenience for
communicating with Internet based devices and web-server and web-browser.
Debates are on whether IP-6LowPan with appropriate TCP versions will be a
better fit because that is much more inter-operable with the Internet.
• The sensor architecture for various applications could evolve for some
standards.
• Standardization should be such that it compliance the large scale
deployments, which are almost non-existent. Interoperability issues have not
been experienced. This may be one area that would lead to refinement in the
standards.
8. What are the potential barriers to growth
Some of the potential barriers to growth as suggested by various researchers working in the
area of WSNs are summarized below.
1. Interdisciplinary collaborations: Most of the applications catered by WSN
require interdisciplinary collaborations. Integrating IT with Application Domain
Experts is one of the potential barriers to WSN growth.
2. Scalability: Design and maintenance at large scale will probably require new
engineering design directions.
3. Energy efficiency. The power is still considered as an issue for developing most
of the algorithms. The current radio, processors, and software are power hungry.
For the nodes to be able to last for long duration (potentially a year or two),
would need clever design. The limiting factor could be the state-of-the-art of the
battery technology.
4. Spectrum: WSN have to use unlicensed spectrum. Thus spectrum issues need to

be resolved. The unlicensed bands are ISM bands like 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz bands
and the 3-10.6 GHz band for UWB wireless technology. The ISM bands etc are
already overcrowded and thus spectrum policy allowing the UWB band should
also be activated in India, since it’s a wider band and can accommodate more
devices / mm2 and help in reducing interference between devices.
5. Privacy and Security: Privacy considerations when sensors are used in or on an

object being actively used by a human. Privacy and Security is also a critical
issue for defense application.
6. Talent: A huge and critical barrier is the shortage of PhD students and neglect of
adequate research infrastructure, education, capital, development projects. Talent
is scarce, especially in terms of expert programmers. Lack of skilled manpower
with a combination of expertise in Hardware, Systems Software, and Embedded
Software with possibility of also lack of knowledge in Web and Distributed
Applications.
7. Cost: Cost of the solutions is not regarded as barrier to the growth of WSNs by
many researchers in the long run. Whereas, cost per node is still considered to be
too high for practical deployment of nodes. It is still unclear that weather these
networks can really run unattended for years, while doing something useful. We
hence need some experiences with large practical deployments. Moreover, the
WSNs will become practicable only when the cost of commercial sensors
is brought down significantly from the current value.
8. Assumptions: Non-practical, unstated and unjustified assumptions in theoretical

research are huge barrier to the actual deployment.
9. Market Potential: It should be recognized that fundamentally WSNs are a bit of

a niche market and are unlikely to sustain the kind of growth seen in other
market segments (servers, Internet, etc.) although it is possible that the market
potential is still very large.
10. Complex Design: User-friendly devices and systems are required to be

developed.
11. Development Cycle: The modeling - theory - prototyping - deployment cycle is

very broad for typical WSN applications. Management of complementary
expertise to complete an end-to-end system and persistent efforts over several
generations of the system may be needed to provide a good solution.
12. Practical Deployments: Demonstration of WSN capability at an affordable cost

to gain market acceptability and penetration.
13. Others: Some of the other barriers to growth are hype exceeded delivery, size of
the node, interference from other technologies using the same spectrum,
packaging, sensors and antenna design.

9. What kind of partnerships to evolve between industry, academia, and
government for growth in WSN technology for India
1. Partnerships between industry and academia should focus on application domains that
can benefit from sensor networks. For instance, food supply industry can leverage
sensor networks for maintaining temperature and quality control throughout the farm
to fork food pathway. The industry can help academic researchers understand the
practical issues, interfacing requirements and immediate needs. Partnerships with the
government can focus on establishing new standards for application domains that
benefit from sensor networks. Continuing the food supply example, a premium grade
food category may be created that is certified to be monitored for temperature and
contamination control throughout the production cycle.
2. Process Management: A key ingredient would be a managed process where a

government entity assumes a facilitating role in helping academic and industrial
contributions transitioning into practice and are responsive to the real user needs.
3. Consortia: The idea of forming consortia to support development of toolsets, IDEs,

testbeds, programming environments as well as users can create momentum.
4. Tri-Partite: The project should be tri-partite between academia, government and

industry. The bond across the three parties can also help rapid adoption of the
technology with academics focusing on Practical Research and Industry focusing on
deployments.
The support and involvement of Government is needed to make it key to the
success of the technology. The govt. also needs to resolve spectrum issues,
standardizations issues, make policies which push specific WSN applications and
create a reliable market opportunity etc. Structures of public utility, like bridges, dams,
roads, railway line etc could be made safe by the use of WSNs. Government should
take initiative in taking up defining requirements, disseminate any data at its disposal
and take up pilot projects. The Government must fully finance the project and may
demand royalties from the industry at a later date.
Academia would need to contribute towards developing innovative sensors
and the industry needs to take on the turnkey project execution. Along with theoretical
research, the academia should also focus on practical research to be able to bridge the
Research & Development gap and help the industry.
The participating industry should have the responsibility of doing market
survey, identification of products and their specifications, price structure and must take
responsibility of manufacturing and deployment. The industry must be fully committed
and must be a stakeholder driving the academia to deliver on time. At the stage of
development the industry will not be willing to contribute financially Role of the
academia is obvious. The system under development must be modular both in terms of
number of nodes, but also in terms of features like secrecy, data rates, power
management, frequency band, channel characteristics etc.
5. Government and industry should sponsor efforts to develop SENSOR prototypes

and WSN prototypes at educational institutes. Once a working prototype of a
sensor for a particular application is developed, the technology could be
sponsored to industry and government labs.

6. The model of a multi-disciplinary center, such as CENS at UCLA, is a nice way to
further research in WSN. It provides a platform for researchers from multiple
disciplines to gather and apply their expertise to the different components of a WSN
system.
10. Any other comments
Mote design:
Being application driven is good as it leads to more concrete research and helps distinguish the
research project from other similar ones. Indian institutions may have an advantage in
conducting large scale deployments due to lower cost of manpower, and larger number of
graduate students. Building a mote prototype locally should be feasible using schematics
shared from Berkeley motes and also having a locally developed design such as through an
Electronic Design Project (EDP) at Dept of EE at IITB. Once the core mote is made easily
available many researchers can use it to build custom platforms for various apps. This is an
important area that allows India to leapfrog the “industrial age” and move into the information
driven automated age. This is an important area where India can become a leading player
globally. So major effort should go into its development.
At present sensor node exist but they are too expensive to make a WSN deployment cost-
effective and attractive. Thus a WSN node (which is a PCB) needs to be converted into an all-
integrated SoC to achieve low-costs.
Physical Layer
While a lot of work has been done to improve performance for WSN protocols (already
achieved high reliability with high efficiency) the capabilities of PHY layer for robustness,
low-power etc., need to be really worked upon.
Communication Capability
A key aspect of wireless sensor networks is that of the communication capabilities of the
sensor nodes. Wireless networking adds a new dimension of capabilities to the sensor / actuator
/ transducer paradigms of the past. As such, new horizons are opened for both research and
more ‘practical’ applications, however, the loss of wires (for power & communication)
introduce a myriad of new issues:
1. Lack of available RF space in the electromagnetic spectrum. Free bands crowded
and any other real-estate prohibitively expensive. Sensor nodes intended to be
deployed in large number and from different vendors.
2. Power constraints cannot be ignored.
3. TX power artificially reduced because spectrum must be shared, radio uses a large
amount of this limited power.
4. Low-cost parts/radios.

Appendix C
Summary of Workshop Presentations
Program
Monday, 20th April 2007
9:00– 9:30 Registration, Coffee and Tea
9:30– 10:00 Welcome Address:
Prof. B. N. Jain, Deputy Director, IIT Delhi
Inaugural Address:
Prof. J. Vasi, Deputy Director, IIT Bombay
Address by Mr. B. M. Baveja, Senior Director, MCIT
Introductory Remarks: Prof. S. N. Merchant
10:00 -- 10:15 Overview talk

Uday Desai / B. N. Jain / S. N. Merchant
Presentations I
Chair: S. N. Merchant
10:15 - 10:30 Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research India)
10:30 - 10:45 Deepak Bharadwaj (Intel)
10:45- 11:00 Sajid Mubashir (TIFAC-DST)
11:00 – 11:15 Puneet Gupta (Infosys)
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee / Tea / Snacks
Presentations II
Chairman: Venkat Padmanabhan
11:45 – 12:00 Venkat Rangan (Amrita University)
12:00 – 12:15 H. S. Jamadagini (IISc)
12:15 – 12:30 Rajakumar (IIT Kharagpur)
12:30 – 12:45 Dinesh Sharma (IIT Bombay)
12:45 – 13:00 Bharadwaj Amrutur (IISc)
13:00 – 13:15 M. K. Dhaka (DEAL Dehradun)
Lunch
13:15 – 14:15
Demo by Airbee Wireless: Rapid WSN Deployment for
Commercial Building Automation
14:15– 15:30 Brain Storming Session

led by
Prof. B. N. Jain
Prof. U. B. Desai
Prof. S. N. Merchant
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee / Tea / Snacks
Demo by Airbee Wireless Continued
16:00 – 16:45 Brain Storming Session (continued)
16:45 – 17:00 Follow up Steps: Where do we go from here?
and
Closing Remarks
17:00 – 18:30 Free Time
18:30 onwards Banquet Sponsored by Microsoft Research India (MSRI)
Talks Summary
Prof. B. N. Jain
1. How could DIT facilitate R&D in this area.
2. What will it take to realize potential in WSN.
3. Numerous Applications, a variety of sensors and a variety of network
technology in WSN
4. Identify those applications that are interesting, important, and challenging and
put effort, time and energy in these technologies.
5. Unclear in India: Which few applications and technologies are relevant
Applications:
- mostly in defense,
- now in environment monitoring, and
- detection and prediction of disasters
- Detection of fire in buildings,
- landslide, tsunami detection/early warning,
- exotic body area WSN medical applications,
- Humidity in soil, efficient irrigation,
Today, we must identify:
- Applications, and technology, (global context perhaps?)

- How may we all collaborate on major applications, themes?
Collaborations, a key issue since
- small research group in India,

- WSN network issues as well as sensing issues involved.

Must engage
- Industry in R&D and prototype development, and

- Government for funding.
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Prof. J. Vasi:
- Willing to collaborate, Physics, Chemistry
- On-chip circuitry, Nano-electronics
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Prof U. B. Desai:
Motivation and issues of WSN
- WSN R&D in US in1994, India, a decade behind,
- Need to be adventurous, own ideas.
- Invite “ISRO” next time
- Processors are well developed
- Weakest link are sensors, accelerometers are there.
- But not sensors that sense nitrates in the soil, bio chemical substances in soil,
- Sensors are not air-tight
- Sensor technology needs a big push
- Lot of work already done in protocols etc… (slide)
- Attempt to take old algorithms and make them distributed, we must have a new
look from collaborative perspective
- Distributed data mining: Tiny DB not much developed
- Java for resource hungry platform: work is in progress
- Zig bee
- Deborah’s group very active
- Shankar Shastry workshop in Taiwan
- Need for a global network
- Almost all major Universities and Research Labs. abroad have R and D in
WSN
Biggest deployment: “ex-scale” Ohio University

-IIT Bombay project: Precision Agriculture for Sula vines at Nashik
-Accenture project in Pillsbury
-Landslide detection, Senslide
-WSN in mobile phones: Mobile phone is ON all the time.
-Research in academia (research labs included) however not industry (Virtual Wire,
Airbee)
-Roadmap of Crossbow

-Marry RFID and WSN
-We have to ensure that India makes a contribution before 2013 (to catch up with
others)
-Funding in comparison with the USA
Challenges:
- Inexpensive sensors
-scalability: large scale
Development of sensors
- Other departments like agriculture, mining, cross disciplinary interaction a must
contribute
Issues
- Is USA the key driver
- We in India should have our own drivers
- Need to go out and deploy instead of using simulators like NS2
- Overcome letting ideas die down in the institute, let them be marketed
Enabler technology
- Edited book, invited papers after this workshop
Question: Do we need precision agriculture in India?

UBD: Yes, look at problems associated in making it low cost. Let us not put too many
constraints. Attack it. Cost is a major issue.
BNJ: Cost not an issue in Rajasthan, some areas in Rajasthan in are green only because
of drip irrigation.
Venkat P (MSR): What is the best application? There is a disconnect between test bed
and actual deployment. Deployments are there but not taking up.
UBD: Cost of sensors and battery is an issue; sensors need to be solar powered
Mr. Harish (Airbee): UK Company makes a sensor under 5 dollars.
Prof. Venkat Rangan: RFIDs as WSN? Do we need a breakthrough?
Prof Dinesh: Yes. Earlier, accelometers costed 1000 dollars, now they cost 5-100
dollars. Healthcare: cost of node just right in healthcare.
ICICI looking for software that answers the question: what is health of the crop?
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Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research India)

Title: “Mobility, network and WSN”
Chair: S.N. Presenter: Venkat Microsoft Research

Merchant Padmanaban
“Mobility, network and WSN”

Large scale WSN
MSR has not worked in WSN, worked only for a few weeks
- action is in sensing not in networking eg: thermostat, sensors in the space
shuttle
- disposal of sensors (battery poisonous)…big issue
Existing deployment can be:

- piggyback on existing platform (desktops, stick in USB like sensor? each node
5000 dollars)
- mobile phones as sensors, 7 million mobiles in India, advantage: resourceful
- platform: smart phones , mix of radios, blue tooth, cellular, WIFI
Mobile phones in WSN

- incentives, WSN participation in network
- trustworthiness, decentralized control thus some node may give false data
- privacy, location information for example,
- mobility, challenge (need to find mobiles in that location, location as a
resource) and opportunity (new applications)
- manage heterogeneity
- include human in loop
Applications:
- Web cam on all mobiles, system may route a query to a mobile, contact a
proper mobile to take a required picture.
- Traffic monitoring by noise mapping. By sensing noise level in a city.
- GPS enabled cell phone, tells something about traffic condition, may be my car
is broken and is slow. False alarm if information from only one mobile used.
Use information from all mobiles and do traffic monitoring
Related work: Nokia Sensor Planet
Complement existing standalone WSN: deployment might be significantly easy since

mobile phones are already deployed.
Ques:
Prof Rajkumar, IIT Kharagpur: Security and Billing
- Cost: communication cost, energy cost in participation, combine and find a
composite cost
- Privacy: track my mobile device, but system should not know the identity of the
person who is moving
Mr. Bharadwaj: platform on mobiles? Windows mobile phones, cost 100$ mobile,
Smart phones?

Summary
Using existing mobile phones and make them into a WSN network, by writing a small
application. And move to central query system to get the data from the remote devices.
Billing of added services

CPU usage and network time. Composite cost factored by resource availability.
Privacy issues for anonymous sensor collection. Using smart-phones to create better
applications and support the user base which will bring down the price of phones in the
hardware end.
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Prof. Venkat Rangan
Title: “Disaster recovery management”
Project: WINSOC: self organizing capabilities for critical and emergency applications
Collaboration
11 partners working on this project from Europe and 2 in India. Uses satellite to collect
as a sensor clusters from different geographically placed sensors. The project started 6-
7 months back. Breaking down the task to sensor activity and distribution of data
collection. Application gas leak, forest fire etc.
Sensor networks Criteria

Wireless sensor network with self-organization capabilities for critical and emergency
applications
Targeted hardware Platform

-Vibration sensors and rain gauge sensors
-Cell phone size insulin pump
-Highly correlated sensors that senses blood sugar and controls insulin pumps
Research challenges
How to prototype land-slide prediction and deployment where shown as clip. Using
heuristic to come up with an early warning system. Using 10-20 sensors covering of 2
kms in land slide areas. Sensors used a rain gauge to start the sensing of other vibration
and sliding sensors.
- Sensor Development
- Wireless Mote design
Summary
Early in the deployment stage. Project web site www.winsoc.org
Ques: Dr Venkat (MSR): How much training one had to give to the system,
parameters? Does the system learn by itself?

Goal early warning of landslide, detection is also important since it may have moved a
train track which we must come to know.
8 different sensors. Columns, area coverage of 2 km,
Is rainfall the only reason for landslide?
Ans: debris flow also a reason
Chair: S.N. Presenter: R. K Gargh DRDO

Merchant
“Snow bound areas, climatic conditions and
forecasting”

Wireless sensor network for hard to deploy areas
Targeted hardware Platform

Avalanche detection and early warning
Research challenges
Using models, first in the form of terrain, weather. Study of hard to deploy areas such
as mountain ranges, terrestrial link sending data to one center. Use models to get digital
terrain to find out the different faults and defects. Range of sensor is between 2-20 km
area of test bed. This data is send to a central processing station e.g. Chandighar. Help
the network domain expert to transmit data.
Advance forecasting of weather data for the region in Gulmarg, Banihal, Patseo and
Dhundi. Difficulty in networking in mountain ranges and wireless reliability and
repeater stations. Range is 1.2km. Finding critical route paths and tunnels for expected
avalanche activity.
Parameters:
Location
Flow per meter
Radio based telemetry system(RRTS)

Due to need in specialized hardware and RF requirements it is a good to explore WSN
due to its advantages.
Parameters in the new system:

Avalanche occurrences
Pressure, velocity, depth of flow, shear force

Static measurements
Density profile
Collaboration
All weather forecasting stations in India.
Summary
Deployed in unique Indian weather conditions:
Sensors need to work in the area in the deployed area. Hence some R&D works to get
better understanding of avalanche early detection and the new network and topology
requirements. Fault tolerant and how to replace the lost sensors (cost effective).
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Mr. Dhaka,
Defense Electronics application laboratory DEAL:
Chair: S.N. Presenter: Manoj Kumar Dhaka Defense
Merchant Electronics
application
laboratory
“WSN & Ad hoc networking from defense

perspective”
Deployment of ad hoc network in hostile environment
- event based system, not monitoring system

- radio silence zone
- bad news gets priority
- move to higher frequency band
- focus on particular satellite
- power is not a constraint, since the sensor is on tanks
Research challenges
Deployment of ad hoc network in hostile environment. Sensors are not rugged for
existing war field conditions. To collect data in real-time to extend the active battle
field. Issues of mobility in ad hoc network. Power is not an issue due to terrain vehicles
like tank.
WSN as the lower layer, upper layer ADHOC network (no power constrain in either
case)

Route optimization does not work well with fast moving nodes
NBC monitoring: Nuclear Biological Chemical monitoring

Defense has already developed sensor
Need for performance, different packet lengths
Design goals:
Two fast moving mobile nodes should be able to communicate in an ad-hoc network
Ultra frequency mobility 10 times per second, multihop routing in this scenario
Security in ad hoc networks
To interoperate ad hoc and WSN network
Collaboration
Defense hardware suppliers.
Summary and Recommendations
Applications:
Nuclear radiation sensors, developed by DRDO
Structural defect detection system in war planes
Interface between the sensor and the CPU must be standardized, any sensor must be
pluggable
Institutions should come out with proposals, not only on acquaintance based
collaborations
Research must be application driven, in some shape in 5 years,

WSN and wireless Adhoc networks should work together.
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Mr. Baveja, MCIT:

WSN: communication algorithms, protocols, RFID applications
Chair: S.N. Merchant Presenter: Mr. Baveja, MCIT DIT
“WSN & affordable wireless communications”
Proposals invited
Design and development of WSN, Real time remote monitoring
Study project on WSN
Outcome in physical terms

Next generation communications, WSN and affordable wireless networking
Research challenges
Project:
1. Design and development of wireless sensor networks for real time monitoring
2. Wireless sensor network technology
Collaboration
All the funded DIT projects.
Summary
R&D in IT,R&D Electronics, R&D Communication and broadband and technology
and extent to low cost WSN deployment.
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Presentations II
Prof. Jamadagni, IISC: CEDT

Application technology for tackling environmental issues:
Chair: S.N. Merchant Presenter: Jamadagni IISc
“The area of sensor network as a research area in

environmental applications”
Modern technology owes ecology an apology: Edison

We spent 200 yrs in conquering the nature now we are beating it to death.
Disaster management:
Plenty of theory, inadequate deployment experience, expensive platform
Use of standard platforms: cell phones
Inexpensive: 150 $ per piece. Redone (indigenization) in India in Rs. 200
CEDT experience with EPFL, NGO: deploys

Project: Commonsense
Agriculture focused
65% land in India is semi arid

Small farmers: can technology help?
Rainfall 500 mm/year
High annual variation
River floods and then dries up, water flows away

Project vision:
- focus on semi arid region
- resource poor population
WSN for collection of agriculture parameters

Process collected data
Pest disease attack,
Pressed farmers for organic farming
Given that “so much” crop is sowed, and the rainfall is falling, then “how much” yield
will I get? So that if the crop is poor, them I can take up another job instead of wasting
time in farming.
Rain prediction
Parameters: temperature, humidity, wind velocity, rain fall, soil humidity
Multi-lingual graphical interface, handheld device
Every month change the battery

WIFI node on 11kv pole
Problems:
- Frequent power outages, unreliable power- variable voltage
- Complete dysfunction of sensor nodes
- Sensors buried so signal strength goes down
Node in forest taking pictures

- interesting , will give a lot of info
WSN research going to take a long time, so keep supporting. May take a long time to
see the day of light
A man collecting data is not reliable.

Anti poaching people moving around, unreliable
How reliable is the data? Decision?

Soil moisture is generally found out from rainfall, we do direct measurement, which is
more reliable.
Groundnut, grapes yield prediction works well
Radio range is large in villages since the interference is low
Self healing ?

Technology for environment monitoring.
Research challenges
The area of sensor network as a research area in environmental applications.
Technology for environment monitoring. Optimization is very much addressed due to
low cost and resource. Use standard platforms, new inexpensive platform. Inexpensive
sensors. The e.g. of deployed sensor in Projects
Agriculture
Semi-arid agriculture (various part of India)
Goal: WSN & ICT to achieve the goals
Get agriculture parameters and distribute it to farmers

- water use
- affordable
End user requirements:

Rain prediction
Plant disease
Crop yield
Important measure:
Soil moisture
System Specification:
Real-time data collection, soil moisture using a cluster based networks.
Practical problems:
Battery replacements every one month
Power outage due unreliable lines
Latest Application
WIFI with WSN clustering and aggregation to get remote picture.
Collaboration
Calibrating with Switzerland CISL for sensors. Crop modeling with Australian
universities.
Summary
Effective use of timeouts and clustering techniques in WSN for data reliability.

Prof. Raj Kumar IIT Kharagpur:
Activities in WSN,
Chair: S.N. Merchant Presenter: Raj kumar IIT-
KGP
“WSN algorithm development”
Umesh Kumar: tracking moving objects using range and bearing information
TMAC
Tracking work: Extended Kalman Filter,

Signal processing algorithm
Underwater acoustic sensors for range measurement
New problem suggestion: find out locations of the mines and thus find out a track
which will avoid mines
Multipath problem

Simulation of WSN design and lifetime
Research challenges
WIMAX – Software radio, 4th generation of mobiles and WSN network Involved
faculty from various department working on different WSN areas Tracking of moving
object(Association/tracking): Student projects adapted to sensor networks using sonar
in underground sensing. (sensors, target passes through the sensors and as the object
moves it switches the sensors).
Modeling of Lifetime analysis in WSN, how to deploy on nodes

Firmware development for WSN sensors
Underwater acoustic sensors
Power aware in network deployment
Created many theses on WSN and a PhD level thesis.

Battery replacements every one month
Power outage due unreliable lines
Latest Application
WIFI with WSN clustering and aggregation to get remote picture
Collaboration
ECE, CS and Mechanical depts..
Summary

Building realistic scalable models for WSN research in the area of tracking algorithms.
Prof. Dinesh Kumar Sharma: IIT Bombay

Patient monitoring
Chair: S.N. Merchant Presenter: Dinesh Sharma IIT-B
“Wireless sensor networks for health care”
Environment monitoring
Silicon locket: heart monitoring unit

Rural area : travel to city for a 1 week surgery, but 3 weeks under observation in city is
not affordable.
Hospital should monitor remotely.
Worn around in the neck (silicon locket)
Reduce cost
Good processing, reliable – high tech products at low cost

If these produced in small number can never be in low cost.
Solution: platform technology (appropriate for at least one segment) which can be
produced in bulk and the cost can be lowered
Low power challenge: can not be switched on always

Local processing since higher communication power
But now local processing means powerful processing, higher energy, tradeoff between
the two: keep this mind for platform development
Sleep mode
Human intervention must since one can not apply 110 V to heart just because of noise,
thus we need human interface
Silicon locket sends SMS to doctor in case of problem. Doctors logs into a server to
check data. Then take a decision to see/not see the patient. Service provider to provide
services to doctors to log into the server/web site.
Doctor can also ask for all the data from the silicon locket in case he needs details.
Developed own integrator of analog signals. TI processor for its “low power” property.
Another project:
Monitoring proteins in blood, sensor dip in blood, cantilever type, differential
measurement.

Arm based base station (plugged in unit as a base station)
Several silicon lockets on a patient which talk to base station one by one.
Involving the user agencies (domain specific): In this case a hospital involved.
Use of Silicon locket for vibration monitoring of buildings!
Ques: (MSR) Dr. Padmanabhan: In case of critical patients, silicon locket is not good.
Ans: In India rural patients find it difficult to stay in bigger cities for a long time. This
is not for critically ill patients.
Another application: Doctor does not go in an ambulance. But the patient can wear the
jacket. And the Doctor can monitor from remote: increase oxygen, change in angle of
lying down position etc
Armputer: Linux on arm
Can it be used by a pacemaker user? Patients with a pacemaker can not use radio. But
card can be taken out from the silicon locket and taken to the doctor.
Removal of motion artifacts necessary
Configurable computing might not work. If you are looking for arrhythmia then you
need high computation all the time.

To make into a product: wearable WSN applications
Research challenges
Project: Silicon Locket and E Jacket work between IIT-B/TCS
Patient monitoring
Diagnostic
Low power, low cost and reliability
Challenges:
Heart monitoring unit, rural people cannot afford the overheads to go to a city health
care provider.
Develop platform technology to address low cost porting to many target devices.
Design of heart sensor for patient diagnostic.
Lower deployment using local processing and sending processed data as opposed to
raw data.
Sensors developed for heart beat detection. Miniaturizing the CMOS made the analog
performance suffer.

Future Development
Merge analog chip with a low power micro controller/DSP using TI
Off chip processing for power optimization – ultra-miniature using ARM based
running LINUX
Noise reduction: removal of Noise artifact produced by mobility.
Patient types: For post heart operative period not for critical patients.
Collaboration
TCS, India
Summary
Awarded best prototype in wearable computing magazine.
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Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur, IISc Bangalore:

Chair: S.N. Merchant Presenter: Bharadwaj Amrutur IISc
“A WSN project”
1 faculty: networking, signal processing, electronics, compilers and OS, sensors:

interdisciplinary
Detection, location, classification, tracking point events
Integrated mote challenge for low cost:

- Non volatile storage
- RAM
- Sensor
- Sensor electronics
- Processor
- Radio
- Antenna
- Power regulator
- Power source
RAM, sensor electronics, processor makes it big (size)

Including radio and power regulator- to reduce power
- packaging important for form factor, rugged

- throwing motes, what after life of mote ends
Has RF profiling done?

Spread spectrum does not fit into low power
Low power wake-up radio, 20 mA for radio and 1 mA processor
Duty cycling important for longer life of sensors.
Solar driven cells, form factor larger in case of solar cells, if solar source is more
efficient then smaller solar panel will result in smaller form factor

Interdisciplinary algorithm development in detection and location.
Research challenges
A WSN research project is a 3 year project funded by DRDO-CAIR and 11 faculty
from four departments.
Application Classification
Detection, location, classification and tracking of point events
Detection and mapping of events covering large regions
Estimation of a continuously varying random field
Assistance in Navigation and Guidance
Monitoring of inventory levels
Current work
Detection, location and tracking
- Perimeter Fencing
- Border Surveillance
High Level requirements
Select sensor modalities

Sensor deployment
Distributed signal processing algorithm for interfacing
Border surveillance
- Problem Scenario
- Inference
- Performance specs
- Network lifetime
Deliverables
- Design plan
- Algorithms
- Prototype with off the shelf motes
- Prototypes of critical

Design of a Mote
19 milliamps for Tx power
Few milliamps for processors and algorithm processing.
Brain storming Session 1:

Led by: Prof U B Desai
Prof B. N. Jain
Prof. S. N. Merchant
Prof U. B. Desai: Introduction to the existing projects done in universities.
Mr. Ramamurthy
- Industry academia interaction and inter academia interaction
- Security
- Real time response
- Radiation resistance
DIT, DST
In addition to funding act as facilitator
Dr. Ram Ramjee (MSR):

Energy inefficient. Energy efficiency needs can be addressed in many ways(using
human in the loop in India).
Software aspect was not well understood,
No common API, need for uniform API so that others can use it.
Mr. Soman, Amrita University Coimbatore:

-More specific applications need to be addressed in India.
Mr. Raisinghani, TCS: for agriculture, wired, improving
Prof. Huzur Saran:

- We have 10 times less money than the US. It should be understood that India
10 times slower.
- If serious research is to be done in WSN, then it is okay if one makes sensors a
little bigger but get them working and they already add value at the present size.
- identify 2/3 applications, larger , costlier sensors should be fine, one could use
smaller number (100/500) of sensors
Dr. Vishal Garg: IIIT Hyderabad:

- There should be hands-on workshops for students
- IT applications to building.
- Gateway for mobiles with blue tooth

Mr. Tiwari, Tata Power:
- Disconnect between domain people and academicians (eg. domain people:
defense), need for institutionalization
- delivery (deployment) mechanism so that sensors can be placed
- certain research areas could be identified and evolved over time
Brigadier Kochar:
- Same products can be used in different ways and will come back about this
- Many are defense driven. All the new projects are gaining experience from
some of optimization done in WSN research.
Dr. Harish, Airbee:

- willing to work with institutions
- we offer multiple levels of hands on training to students (in Chennai)
Dr. LK Bandhopadhyaya, ISM Dhanbad

- fatal accidents in mines, exposure for gases
- battery life in sensor an issue, solar powered will not work in mine
- Dhanbad a remote place, need addresses for procurement of hardware
Dr. Vishnu Pradhan, IIT Bombay:

- microprocessor was very exciting 30 yrs and now it is embedded everywhere
- look from a national point of view, identify our priorities
- management of WSN that this technology pervades
- research to prototyping, with user benefits
- support, management and operational maintenance
Bell-labs:
- Defense is going through a revolution
- Naval research board has lots of problems
- Need for research in anti jam algorithm, WSN working on a single frequency, it
should not be possible to jam WSN at will
- use of UWB for communication
- security
- presently, sensor and analog circuitry kept separately, MEMS is done on silicon
and also analog is on silicon, possible to integrate,
- standardization issue, draft initial standard on sensor networks
- after standardization number of customers will be larger
- software, self reliance, otherwise licensing fees would be an issue
Ms. Manisha, Amrita

- encourage students
Mr. Vijay
- Looking at WSN as a thrust area

- proposals should come up
- applications in industrial automation, healthcare
Ms. Duttagupta, ISI, Calcutta

- work at ISI: farmers are from low income group, pesticides should be applied
only after prediction using WSN, trained data using neural networks
Ms. Navonita Das, ISI

- Need for a web site for research on WSN
Dr. Mukesh , NIT Suratkal

- flood management as an application
- data can be tampered, security
Brainstorming Session 2
Observations
Is cost an important factor?
Is Cost of sensor, networking, life cycle cost
worth the data collected?
Observations
Potential barriers to WSN growth?
Prof. B. N. Jain:
- water most important resource, monitoring quality of water of Ganges
- no of sensors 20,000, cost: RS 20 Crore
- 200 million people lives at stake
- Lives more important, proves the worth of sensor networks
- Need to look at wired sensor network, wireless is not required always, self
configuration issue is still there, eg. Agriculture, irrigation, wiring of sensors is
feasible, things very simple for wired configuration, energy also not a constraint
- Working together, R&D driven by one or more applications, do everything to
make this possible
- New sets of applications of WSN with cell phone as sensors
- Do-able, challenging, important applications must be located
- Seek funding from DIT targeted at collaborations (DARPA identifies problems
to be solved and then others bid)
Prof. U. B. Desai:
- are there any barriers to growth, change out mindset (Dr.Pradhan)
- lack of applications (Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan)
- Dr. Venkat P.: PhDs prefer to work in lab since they feel they will earn PhDs.
They will not get a PhD like this with implementation and deployment. PhD
students are not willing to do hardware kit deployments due to legacy academic
practice.

- Dr. Jamadagni: farmers do not feel this application as compelling, however like
earlier cellular phones revolution
- Academicians can not give a business models, so Govt. has to keep supporting
- We need to have a business model, put it together
- Business kind of planning: why, when, how, how much
- invite VCs next time
- academia and industry are not coming together (CSIR funds any project that
can be established to make India number 1)
- Dr. Dinesh: sometimes cost is important sometimes it is not, each parameter has
to be optimized. Industry and academia can get together. Just choose a good
problem. Then you will make better progress. Why are there not killer
applications? Establish success stories. Take specifications, define problems
and then bring in people who can solve them.
IIT Kharagpur,
- sensor node need not be low power, wireless
- potential business models should be drawn with flexible models of node
- cost is not an issue
Dr. Dinesh:
- we went to TCS with the idea.
- Academicians need not make business model, they do not want to be second
rate businessmen
- We are coming together since industry does business best and academicians to
their work best.
Dr. Pradhan:
- use expertise from business schools of IITs / IIMs
- let them make business plan for you
- issues involved
- let them do a market survey, target customers
Prof. Jamadagni:
- create a project that students want to join
- Academicians should have good problems first. Pool of problems.
Prof. B.N.Jain: locating problems that are

- interesting (Academician’s responsibility), challenging (Academician’s
responsibility), important (feedback from user), funded (VC)
Prof. Amrutur

- keep working (with DST, DIT funding) worrying about business plans, killer
applications etc. since there are many many interesting things, we will make a
generation of students who are good at interdisciplinary problems
Prof. Venkat Rangan:

- WSN interdisciplinary, potential barrier
- Need for consortium
- grand challenge like DARPA grand challenge
Prof. U.B.Desai:
- exciting since it is interdisciplinary, very important to have domain experts
- other disciplines are looking at us for collaborations
Dr. Pradhan:
- Academician do academics, industry does business
- DARPA model: identify the person who puts together this interdisciplinary
team, DARPA finds out problems
- NSF model: output is publications, patent, researcher find out problem
Prof. U.B.Desai:
- DIT and DST has requested to find out a problem
Prof. Dinesh:
- Application must have 1. impact: either a. societal or b. industrial (list these
applications)
- Development of base line capabilities e.g. students are trained, find out what
should they be trained on? (list out)
Prof. Jamadagni:
- partnership has to be natural
- institutionalization has problems of its own
Prof. U.B.Desai:
- Mr. Baveja promised that whatever problem is defined they will fund.
Intel recommendation: task force
Prof. U.B.Desai:
- Manpower is an issue
Scheduled chat session:

- chat session : monsoon: 2nd week of June, around 15th June
- Next workshop after 3 to 4 months
- biographies needed
URL: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~spann/wsnworkshop/index.html

Appendix D
List of important URLs related to WSN Research, Development and Deployment (RDD)
National (Indian) WSN Projects
Project Title Location URL Description
Contact
AgirSens:
WSN for http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in • Deployed in Sula Wines and running for almost a
precision /spann year. U. B. Desai
Agriculture (ubdesai@iith.ac.in)
IIT Bombay S. N. Merchant
(merchant@ee.iitb.ac.in)
WCSN:
Wireless • Developed protocols for Multihop WCSN for U. B. Desai
Cellular pollution monitoring and data aggregation. Soon (ubdesai@iith.ac.in)
IIT Bombay, IIT - http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in S. N. Merchant
Sensor plan on filed deployment.
Hyderabad, India /spann (merchant@ee.iitb.ac.in)
Networks
U. B. Desai
Pervasive http://www.iu-
IIT Bombay, IIT - • Developing protocols for Context aware (ubdesai@iith.ac.in)
sensor atc.com/indiaPartners.h
Hyderabad, India applications for Multihop WCSN. S. N. Merchant
networks tml

SenSlide: • Protocols, Phy. layer work and real time field
WSN for deployment.
landslide U. B. Desai
IIT Bombay, IIT - http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in
Detection (ubdesai@iith.ac.in)
Hyderabad, India /spann/ • SenSlide deployed in a Lab environment.
S. N. Merchant
Dreamajax Technologies
Private Limited,Orchid
Techscape, STPI Campus,
• Provides lab setup of approximately 2Km with
Dreamajax http://www.wsnindia.c 6th Floor, Cyber Park,
Technologies Bangalore, India external interface for all Research and
om/ Electronics City,
development
Bangalore, India - 560100.
Phone:+91 80 66186194
• Wireless Sensor Network is built by the

consortium, which put together expertise from
big companies, academies, research centers, end-
AMRITA VISHWA
WINSOC users and SME's, to create a strong synergism
VIDYAPEETHAM
(WIreless Sensor between academic world, industries and end-
AMRITAPURI CAMPUS,
Networks with Self- users.
Amritapuri, Clappana P.O.,
Organisation http://www.amrita.edu/ • The goal is, to develop a general purpose
Capabilities for India Kollam - 690 525.
Winsoc/ innovative wireless sensor network having the
Critical and Ph: 0476-2896318,
Emergency distributed processing capabilities and, on the
Applications
2896328, 2898318.
other side, to test applications on environmental
) Fax:2896178.
risk management where heterogeneous networks,
composed of nodes having various degree of
complexity and capabilities, are made to work
under realistic scenarios.

Bhaskaran Raman
Associate Professor
Room 406, Kanwal Rekhi
(KReSIT) Building
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
BriMon: A Indian Institute of
Sensor • It is critical to have a system to monitor the Technology, Bombay
Network health of the bridges and report when and where Powai, Mumbai, INDIA
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.i
System for maintenance operations are needed. BriMon is a 400076
India n/silmaril/br/doku.php?
Railway wireless sensor network based system for such Tel: +91-22-2576-7908,
id=proj:brimon
Bridge monitoring. Fax: +91-22-2572-0022
Monitoring Email: username is br,
domain is cse dot iitb dot ac
dot in
Keep Dow Chemical off
IITs, off India, off the
world

Prof. Prabhat Ranjan
Professor, DA-IICT
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute
of Information and
Sensor • CENSE - A modular Sensor Network Testbed Communcation Technology
http://intranet.daiict.ac.i
Network to DAIICT and A Mobility Platform for CENSE Gandhinagar, Gujarat,
n/~ranjan/research/rese
monitor India • WildCENSE - Sensor Network to monitor 382007 Tel. +91 079
arch.htm
WildLife WildLife 30510553
prabhat_ranjan [at] daiict
[dot] ac [dot] in
Venkat Padmanabhan
• Current Projects Microsoft Research India
• Ongoing research spans the following areas: "Scientia"
• DirCast: Improving wireless multicast 196/36 2nd Main,
http://research.microsof
Mobility, performance Sadashivnagar
Microsoft Research, t.com/en-
Networks, and • CocoNet: Wide-area network acceleration Bangalore 560 080
India us/groups/mns/default.a
Systems • NetPrints: Home network configuration India
spx
management and diagnosis Tel: +91 (80) 6658-6004
• Distributed sensing using mobile phones Fax: +91 (80) 2361-4657
E-mail:
padmanab@microsoft.com

Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta,
India
• Ad Hoc Network Research & Applications
Group provides an environment for research and
app. development necessary to support next
generation wireless and mobile communication
systems.
Ad Hoc • Our mission is to develop and evaluate advanced
Networks Indian Institute of http://www.iimcal.ac.in and efficient communication strategies for ad hoc
Research & Management /research/adhocnet/inde wireless networks through implementation and to
Applications Calcutta, India x.htm investigate their applications towards the
Group realization of future ubiquitous society
• Agro Sense
• Pollution Monitoring
• Secured Decentralized Disaster Management
Information Network
• The major research areas include error control

coding, ubiquitous sensor networks, biomedical
http://tcsinnovations.co & multimedia signal processing, applied
Embedded TCS Innovation Labs m/index.php?option=co electromagnetic, emerging technologies &
Systems Lab
innovation.info@tcs.com
Bangalore m_content&task=view algorithms for next generation radio
&id=85&Itemid=116 communication technologies
• Wireless Sensor networks for large scale
monitoring

High Performance
Computing & Networking
Lab
Room No: BSB 358,
Dept. of Computer Science
& Engineering
• Research Interests IIT Madras, Chennai-600
036
• Ad hoc Wireless Networks
Indian Institute of Phone: 22575369
High Performance http://hpcn.cse.iitm.ac.i • Wireless Sensor Networks
technology Madras, Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy
Computing and n/research.html • Optical Networks
Networking Lab Chennai, India BSB, Room No.357,
• Quality of Service in Next Generation Networks Dept. of Computer Science
& Engineering
Indian Institute of
Technology Madras,
Chennai
Phone: 22574361 (office)
Fax: 22574361
AITS:
Association Email:
http://www.itsindia.org
for Intelligent India • Improving Road Safety secretariat@itsindia.org
/iv/index.htm
Transport Tel: +91-755-2660635
System

Prof. U. B. Desai, Prof S.
N. Merchant, EE Dept., IIT
Bombay, Powai Mumbai.,
• Geo-ICT (location based services, spatial
Ph +91-22-25764478, +91-
decision making and geo-computations)
22-25767455
interlinked with Sensor Networks (SN) and Grid
email: ubdesai@iith.ac.in,
Computing (GC) technologies promises to be an
merchant@ee.iitb.ac.in
interesting combination for generating host of
useful information for various applications such
Prof. J Adinarayana,
as agriculture, disaster management /mitigation,
Associate Professor, CSRE,
transportation, security, early warning systems,
Indian Institute of
real time weather and environmental information
Geosense: Technology (IIT) Bombay
India-Japan systems, etc.
Geo-ICT and http://www.csre.iitb.ac. Powai, Mumbai - 400 076.
(IIT-Bombay of India • Realizing the importance of this integrated
Sensor in/geosense/geosense- Phone: +91 22 25767689 e-
and NARO-NARC of system, an initiative was taken up under the Indo-
Network for dec2009-workshop mail: adi@iitb.ac.in
Japan) Japan Bilateral Programmed under the DST-JST
Agri-System
Strategic Cooperation Programme on
Dr. Vasala Madhava Rao,
Multidisciplinary ICT to develop a real-time
Head (C-GARD) & Prof. &
Decision Support System (DSS), which will
Head (CIT) I/C, National
christened as “GeoSense”, to assist the rural
Institute of Rural
stakeholders for improving the rural livelihood,
Development (NIRD),
environmental sustenance/security and
Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad
agriculture productivity which are attracting
- 500 030, Phone: +91 40
importance recently due to global climate
24008447, e-mail:
change.
madhava@nird.gov.in

International WSN Projects
Project Title Location URL Description Contact
Geoff Goeldner, Project

Manager, Smart Transport
and Roads Project, on +612
9376 2107
Geoff.Goeldner@nicta.com.a
http://nicta.com.au/busi
u
ness/business_areas/int
New South Wales,
STaR Project elligent_transport_syste • Traffic Control and Surveillance
Australia mail: Locked Bag 9013,
ms
Alexandria NSW 1435,
Australia Location:
Australian Technology Park
,13 Garden Street
Eveleigh, NSW 2105
Australia
• The use of high bit rate low power radio transceivers Head of Institute
(>= 1Mbps) for low data rate and low duty cycle Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Wireless Self- applications Dietmar Dietrich
sustaing Vienna University of • The development of an energy efficient MAC Location,A-1040 Vienna,
http://www.ict.tuwien.a
Sensor Technology, Protocol (CSMA-MPS), optimized for high bit rate Gusshausstrasse 27-
c.at/wireless/ radio transceivers
Network Austria 29,Building
(WSSN) • The design of low cost energy efficient hardware Neues EI, 2th floor
including node design, energy scavenging Phone
techniques and storage +43 1 58801-38401

• Implementation of an energy aware routing protocol Fax
• Vertical system integration throughout all protocol +43 1 58801-38499
layers including hardware E-Mail
sek384@ict.tuwien.ac.at
Web
http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/
• The TCS-Sensor group is (mainly) interested in

Centre Universitaire
• Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
TCS-Sensor d’Informatique
lab • Wireless Sensor Networks
http://tcs.unige.ch/doku Battelle bâtiment A
(Theoretical • Algorithm oriented sensor network simulator
Switzerland .php/web/wirelesssenso route de Drize 7
Computer (AlgoSenSim) 1227 Carouge
rnetworks
Science and Geneva, Switzerland
Sensor Nets)
Company:AustriaTech -
Gesellschaft des Bundes für
technologiepolitische
Maßnahmen GmbH
Contact Person:
http://www.coopers- Mr. Reinhard Pfliegl
Coopers Austria • Cooperative Systems for Intelligent Road Safety
ip.eu/ Address:
Donau-City-Straße 1, 1220
Wien
Phone: +43 1 26 33 444 20
Fax : +43 1 26 33 444 10
mail:reinhard.pfliegl@austria
tech.org

IP Coordinator
http://www.cvisproject. • Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure and Service
CVIS Brussels, Belgium Paul Kompfner
org/ integration
cvis@mail.ertico.com
European Commission
Directorate-General
Information Society and
Media,
http://ec.europa.eu/info
ICT for Transport
Brussels, rmation_society/activiti
i2010 • Intelligent Car Initiative BU31 4/66,
Belgium es/intelligentcar/index_
Avenue de Beaulieu, 31
en.htm
B-1160 Brussels
Email: infso-intelligent-
car@ec.europa.eu
Mohamed Hefeeda, Assistant

Professor
http://nsl.cs.surrey.sfu.c Area: Computer Networks,
• Forest Fire Modeling and Early Detection using
a/wiki/index.php/K- Multimedia Communications
WSNs.
Forest fire Coverage_and_its_App Email: mhefeeda @ cs.sfu.ca
Canada lication_to_Forest_Fire
fighting Home Page:
_Detection http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefee
da/
Office: SFU Surrey 4144

Phone: +1-778-782-7577

Fax: +1-778-782-8116
General: info@sevecom.org
Antonio Kung
France http://www.sevecom.or
SEVECOM Tel: +33 144 70 61 03
g/ • SEcure VEhicle Communication Antonio.kung@trialog.com
Mr Franck PRESUTTO
http://www.airnet-
AIRNET France • Airport Network and Mobile Surveillance (project coordinator)
project.com/
presutto@m3systems.net
Project Leader
Michel
Cyber http://www.cybercars.o
France • Cooperative Vehicles INRIA - Rocquencourt
Cars rg/
Research Unit, France
michel.parent@inria.fr
Dr.-Ing. Karl-Oskar
• Creating and establishing an open European
Proskawetz
industry standard for CAR 2 CAR
c/o GZVB Competence
communication systems based on wireless
Center GmbH
LAN components and to guarantee European-
http://www.car-2- Hermann-Blenk-Straße 17
CAR-2-CAR Germany wide inter-vehicle operability
car.org/ D-38108 Braunschweig
Germany
• To enable the development of active safety Phone: +49 531 / 354 06-72
applications by specifying, prototyping and E-mail: contact@car-2-
demonstrating the CAR 2 CAR system to car.org
promote the allocation of a royalty free

European wide exclusive frequency band for
CAR 2 CAR applications
• To push the harmonization of CAR 2 CAR

Communication standards worldwide to
develop realistic deployment strategies and
business models to speed-up the market
penetration
http://www.comnets.un Andreas Timm-Giel,

wearIT@ work i- Koojana Kuladinithi,
Germany • WSNs in Wearable and Logistic Application
bremen.de/typo3site/in Markus Becker,
dex.php?id=11 Carmelita Görg
Rudolf Mietzner – Secretary

General
c/o Softlab GmbH
Zamdorferstrasse 120
http://www.comesafety D-81677 Munich
COM eSafety Germany • Road Safety
.org/
Phone: +49 89 9926 – 1216
Fax: +49 89 9936 – 1658
E-mail:
mietzner(at)comesafety.org
http://www.network- Gerhard Noecker

NOW Germany • Communication Protocols and Security
on-wheels.de Daimler AG
Gerhard.noecker@daimler.co

m
Luisa Andreone
Centro Ricerche Fiat -
http://www.watchover- • Real time detection and relative localisation of Technologies Division
Watch-Over Italy
eu.org/ vulnerable road users Strada Torino 50, 10043
Orbassano, Torino, Italy
Tel. +39 011 9083071
Project Coordinator
Roberto Brignolo
http://www.safespot- Centro Ricerche Fiat
SAFESPOT Italy eu.org/ • Road Safety and related applications strada Torino 50, 10043
Orbassano Torino, Italy
tel. +39 011 90 80534
email: safespot@crf.it
Narito Kurata
Kobori Research Complex
Kajima Corporation, Tokyo
107-8502 Japan
Risk http://de.scientificcom Tel: +81-3-6229-6558, Fax:
mons.org/43502765 • Ubiquitous structural monitoring (USM) of
monitoring of Japan +81-3-5561-2431
buildings with WSNs
buildings E-mail: kuratangkajima.com
tGraduate School of Frontier
Sciences
The University of Tokyo,
Chiba 277-8561 Japan

Tel: +81-47-136-3897, E-
mail: {saru, mori}lmlab.t.u-
tokyo.ac.jp
Antonio Marqués
• Developing new systems for cooperative sensing Tres Forques, 147
and predicting flow, infrastructure and 46014 Valencia
TRACKSS Spain http://www.trackss.net/
environmental conditions surrounding traffic, SPAIN
with a view to improve road transport +34 96 313 40 82
operations safety and efficiency technology-projects.etra-
id@grupoetra.com
GMV SISTEMAS, S.A.

P.T.B. Parcela 101, Boecillo
http://www.ist-
• RElative POSitioning for collIsion avoidance E-47151 VALLADOLID
REPOSIT Spain reposit.org/
sysTems Tel. +34 983 54 65 54
Fax. +34 983 54 65 53
e-mail: jherrero(at)gmv.es
AIDE Coordinator
Gustav Markkula (VTEC)
Volvo Technology
Corporation
http://www.aide- • Joint effort of several reseach institutes, Intelligent Vehicle
AIDE Sweden
eu.org/ universities and manufacturers Technologies
Dept 06320, M1.6
SE-405 08 Gothenburg,
Sweden
gustav.markkula@volvo.com

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr.
http://www.btnode.ethz Lothar Thiele
The Sensor .ch/Projects/SensorNet • BTnodes - A Distributed Environment for Tel.: +41 44 63 27031
Switzerland Secretariat: Monica Fricker
Network workMuseum Prototyping Ad Hoc Networks
Museum Tel.: +41 44 63 27035
Caterina Sposato
Tel.: +41 44 63 27001
Dr Kirk Martinez
phone: +44 (0)2380 594491
fax: +44 (0)2380 592865
email: km@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://envisense.org/gla
University of Southampton • Monitor glacier behaviour using WSNs
Glacsweb UK csweb/
Dept. of Electronics and
Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Hampshire,SO17 1BJ , UK.

• A Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) consists of Wanqing Tu
Video nodes that have multiple network interfaces Room 311, Kane building,
Transmission http://www.cs.ucc.ie/mi used to form a multi-hop mesh topology. The Computer Science
in Wireless Ireland, UK sl/research/wmn.php aim of this project is to develop new algorithms Department,
Mesh for the efficient delivery of video in WMNs University College
Networks that can operate at multiple transmission rates Cork,Cork,Ireland
and using multiple radio frequency channels. Phone: (+353)21-490-3976
Email: wt1 AT cs.ucc.ie
Professor ,Cormac J. Sreenan

Car-Park Room 318, Kane building,
http://www.cs.ucc.ie/mi
Management • Application for the control and monitoring of car Computer Science
sl/research/carparking.p
Using Wireless Ireland, UK parking space usage Department,
hp
Sensor University College
Networks Cork,Cork,Ireland
Phone: (+353)21-490-3629
Email: cjs AT cs.ucc.ie

http://www.cs.ucc.ie/mi • Reliable aggregation. Jonathan Benson
Data Room 309, Kane building,
Aggregation in sl/research/data-
Ireland, UK CS Dept,Uni. College Cork,
Sensor agg.php • Successful delivery of aggregate data.
Cork, Ireland
Networks Phone: (+353)21-490-3975
Email: j.benson AT cs.ucc.ie
Cormac Duffy
Room 309, Kane building,
• Using the MISL sensor network and expertise
Computer Science
Visual Art http://www.cs.ucc.ie/mi from the MISL researchers, the space watches,
monitors and records the visitor and stores their Department,
with Wireless Ireland, UK sl/research/art.php University College
Sensor information, and then remixes previously
Cork,Cork,Ireland
Networks captured data and subtly infuses it with the
Phone: (+353)21-490-3975
viewer's own experiences in the space.
Email: cd5 AT cs.ucc.ie
• Networking and protocol development

requirements for building power efficient and Dirk Pesch,PhD
scalable wireless sensor networks for Position: Principle
EmNetS - http://www.cs.ucc.ie/e application in the utilities and resource Investigator and Supervisor
Embedded Ireland, UK mnets/ management space.
Networked Office: B169 Email:
Sensing • Develop technology for effective transfer to and dpesch@cit.ie
exploitation by Irish industry. Phone:
+353 21 4326377

• The project will in particular develop a simple, Fax:
power efficient, self-configuring network +353-21-4326625
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.
http://www- • PATH's mission: applying advanced technology California PATH

path.eecs.berkeley.edu/ to increase highway capacity and safety, and to 1357 S.46th Street, Bldg. 452
PATH Project USA
reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and Richmond, CA 94804-4648
energy consumption. Tel: 510-665-3552
Email:
skabardonis@ce.berkeley.edu
Jeff Frolik
Electrical and Computer
Sensor Engineering Department,
Networks & http://www.cems.uvm.e • Snow Water Equivalent Monitoring with University of Vermont,33
USA
Wireless du/research/cems/snow Wireless Sensor Networks Colchester Ave,
Workgroup /default.php Burlington, VT 05405,
U.S.A.
Tel: 802.656.0732
FAX: 802.656.3358
E-mail: jfrolik@uvm.edu.

http://cres.usc.edu/pubd
b_html/files_upload/37 Center for Robotics and
5.pdf Embedded Systems (CRES),
University of Southern
Environmental • Bacterium-inspired Robots for Environmental
http://cres.usc.edu/Hom California
Monitoring USA Monitoring
e cres@robotics.usc.edu
http://blog.xbow.com dhariwal,gaurav,requichag@
usc.edu
• ZebraNet is studying power-aware, position- Margaret Martonosi

aware computing/communication systems.
• The goals are to develop, evaluate, implement, Professor
Dept. of Electrical Eng.
http://www.princeton.e and test systems that integrate computing,
The ZebraNet Engineering Quad B216
du/~mrm/zebranet.html wireless communication, and non-volatile
Wildlife USA 34 Olden Street
storage along with global positioning systems
Tracker Princeton University
(GPS) and other sensors.
Princeton, NJ 08544-5263
• On the biology side, the goal is to use systems to
perform novel studies of animal migrations and
Office: (609) 258-1912 Fax:
inter-species interactions.
(609) 258-3745

• Smart sensor web project designed to support
collaborative environmental science with near-
real-time recovery of environmental data.
http://www.robfatland.
SEAMONSTE net/seamonster/index.p • Initial geographic focus is the Lemon Creek
NASA, USA NASA,USA
R watershed near Juneau Alaska with expansions
hp?title=Main_Page
planned onto the Juneau Icefield and into the
coastal marine environment of the Alexander
Archipelago and the Tongass National Forest.
Deepak Ganesan
Assistant Professor
Science
• Building scalable, energy-efficient sensor
University of Massachusetts,
http://sensors.cs.umass. networks through the use of heterogeneous
Sensors USA Amherst
edu/index.shtml sensor modalities, sensor platforms and
dganesan@cs.umass.edu
processors.
Office: CS Building, Room
250
Phone: (413) 545 2450
Fax: (413) 545 1249
Anish Arora
Professor
ExScal: • The aim is to investigate the challenges in scaling Computer Science and
Extreme Scale to a network of 10,000 sensor nodes. Engineering
http://cast.cse.ohio-
Wireless USA • Environmental monitoring, traffic surveillance, 395 Dreese Hall
state.edu/exscal/
Sensor battlefield awareness, habitat monitoring, The Ohio State University
Networking supply chain integration, and weather tracking. Columbus, OH 43210-1277
USA
+1 (614) 292 1836

fax +1 (614) 292 2911
anish (at) cse (dot) ohio
(dash) state (dot) edu
Wang, X
(Sean.Wang@uvm.edu) ,
http://adsabs.harvard.ed
• A Robust and Manageable Approach for The University of Vermont,
EnArchi USA u/abs/2006AGUFMIN2
Dynamic Large-scale Sensor Networks 33 Colchester Ave.,
2A..08W
Burlington, VT 05405,
United States
http://cres.usc.edu/Rese Mohammad Rahimi

Bioscope USA arch/files/rahimi_thesis • Actuated Sensor Network for Biological Science http://cres.usc.edu/Research/p
_2006.pdf ublications.php
Georgia Institute of
Technology
http://www.gatech.edu/ 75 Fifth Street, N.W.,
news- • Continuous monitoring air around persons prone Suite100,Atlanta, Georgia
Biomedical Atlanta, USA
room/release.php?id=1 to asthma 30308 USA
677 Abby Vogel (404-385-
3364)E-mail:
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Washington • Tracking Fires using Mobile Agents in a Chien-Liang Fok

Fire tracking Washington University
St. Louis, USA Wireless Sensor Network Doctoral Student

in St. Louis Office Phone: 1 (314) 935-
7535
Lab Phone: 1 (314) 935-7526
Fax: 1 (314) 935-7302
liangfok@wustl.edu
Computer Science and
Engineering
Washington University in St.
Louis
One Brookings Dr., Campus
Box 1045
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Andrea Goldsmith
Professor of Electrical
Engineering
Stanford University
Packard 371
• Sensor network localization using visual
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Vision-based http://wsnl.stanford.edu observations made by image sensors from a
Stanford, USA Engineering
Localization /localization.php beacon agent are used to estimate network
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Stanford, CA 94305-9515
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ee.stanford.edu
Information Technology
http://w3.antd.nist.gov/
• Distributed detection and estimation Laboratory
NIST USA wctg/smartsensors/sens
• Multi-sensor data fusion NIST, 100 Bureau Drive,
ornetworks.html
Stop 8900,

Gaithersburg, MD 20899-
8900.
University of
Wisconsin- Madison, WI 53706- http://www.ece.wisc.ed • Location-Centric Distributed Computation and
1691, USA u/~sensit/
sensit@ece.wisc.edu
Madison Signal Processing in Microsensor Networks
MIT Computer Science and

Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
• Networking and mobile computing, with an The Stata Center, Building 32
Networks and http://nms.csail.mit.edu emphasis on designing, implementing, and 32 Vassar Street
USA
Mobile /#projects evaluating network systems, protocols, and Cambridge, MA 02139
Systems applications. USA Tel: 617-253-5851
Fax: 617-258-8682
Email:
webmaster@csail.mit.edu
Matt Welsh
• Integration of medical sensors with low-power
wireless networks
Associate Professor of
• Wireless ad-hoc routing protocols for critical
Computer Science
care; security, robustness, prioritization
School of Engineering and
Code Blue: • Hardware architectures for ultra-low-power
Applied Sciences
Wireless Harvard University , http://www.eecs.harvar sensing, computation, and communication
Harvard University
Sensor United States of d.edu/~mdw/proj/codeb • Interoperation with hospital information systems;
Networks for America lue/ privacy and reliability issues
Medical Care Office: 233 Maxwell
• 3D location tracking using radio signal
Dworkin
information
33 Oxford St.
• Adaptive resource management, congestion
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
control, and bandwidth allocation in wireless
networks Phone: (617) 495-3311

FAX: (617) 495-2809
• Support tactical and surveillance applications

using reconfigurable sensor network nodes that
are capable of forming impromptu network,
Alvin Lim,
being deployed incrementally, and assembling
Computer Science and
themselves without central administration.
http://www.eng.auburn. Engineering,
DARPA Sensit • Provide capabilities for sensor networks to adapt
USA edu/users/lim/sensit.ht Auburn University,
Project dynamically to device failure and degradation
ml Auburn, Al 36849,
and changes in task and network requirements.
Phone (334) 844-6326
• Integrate various application-specific network lim@eng.aubum.edu
and system services provided by mixed types
of sensor nodes and embedded defense
applications
Jeff Frolik, Assistant

Professor Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
http://www.emba.uvm. • Projects dealing with architectures and
Sensor Networks University of Vermont
USA edu/~jfrolik/uvmwan.ht algorithms to characterize and improve the
& Wireless Vermont,
Workgroup
m performance of these systems.
USA
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jf
rolik/
• Sensing Structural Integrity :Sensors report the

Lorie Mariano
location and kinematics of damage during and
Event Coordinator
after an earthquake.
CITRIS http://www.tinyos.net/r (510) 643-2217
Berkeley, CA, USA • Telegraph :A database customized for streaming
elated.html (510) 642-1800- fax
data such as that found in sensor networks
lorie@eecs.berkeley.edu
• TinyDB :A query processing system for
extracting information from a network of

TinyOS sensors.
• TinyGALS :A programming model for event-
driven embedded systems, an EECS project
• XYZ On A Chip: Integrated Wireless Sensor
Networks for the Control of the Indoor
Environment in Buildings
http://ucberkeley.citris- • Enable researchers anywhere in the world to

Berkeley, CA, USA
uc.org/research/projects engage in non-intrusive monitoring of sensitive
Great Duck /great_duck_island Email:
wildlife and habitats.
Island culler@cs.berkeley.edu
• Sensor motes are monitoring the nesting habitat
of the Leach’s Storm Petrel on the island and Home Page:
relaying their readings into a satellite link that http://www.cs.berkeley.edu
allows researchers to download real-time /~culler
environmental data over the Internet. Department: Electrical,
Computer Science (CS)

• Collecting real time data from wildfires is
important for life safety considerations, and
allows predictive analysis of evolving fire Professor
behavior. NICHOLAS SITAR
• The FireBug system combines state-of-the-art Phone: (510) 643-8623
sensor hardware running TinyOS with Campus Office: 449 Davis
http://firebug.sourcefor
FireBug Berkeley, CA, USA standard, off-the-shelf World Wide Web and
ge.net/ Hall
database technology for allowing users to
rapidly deploy FireBugs and monitor network Email:nsitar@ce.berkeley.
behavior. edu

• How does network centric organization of
sensors affect time critical fusion of dynamic
spatial-temporal events in urban environments? Principal Investigator and
Engineering Research Thurst Leader
• This question has become more pertinent today
Sensor
Network http://www.ist.arl.psu.e because of the proliferation of multi-source
USA sensor data due to DoD's paradigm shift to Dr. Shashi Phoha
Structure for du/eSensIF/
network centric warfare, the urban area sxp26@psu.edu
Information
Fusion monitoring demands of the Global War on
Terror, and the collaboration needs of Future
Combat System platforms.

• Miniaturized sensing with self-management and
configuration for Pervasive Health care
• Local data abstraction and sensor fusion
Professor Guang-Zhong
inferencing with low power sensor and wireless
Yang:
data path
Director of Research Institute
• Processing-on-node technology for context aware
http://ubimon.doc.ic.ac. of Biomedical Engineering
SAPHE UK sensing
uk/saphe/m338.html Imperial College,
• Automated trust-based decision support and South Kensington
"affective computing" for improved human- London SW7 2AZ
computer interfacing
• Intelligent trend analysis and large scale data
mining

• The widespread distribution and availability of
small-scale sensors, actuators, and embedded Johannes Gehrke
processors is transforming the physical world
into a computing platform. Associate Professor,
• Sensor networks that combine physical sensing
http://www.cs.cornell.e Sciences
Cornell University, capabilities such as temperature, light, or
COUGAR: The du/database/cougar/ind 4105B Upson Hall
USA seismic sensors with networking and
Network Is ex.php Cornell University
computation capabilities will soon become
The Database Ithaca, NY 14853
ubiquitous.
johannes [something] cs [is]
cornell [here] edu
Voice: 607-255-1045; fax:
607-255-4428
• Real-time network coordination and control

John A. Stankovic
middleware that abstracts, controls, and
BP America Professor
ultimately guarantees the desired behavior of
large unreliable networks such as those
Science
composed of sensors and actuators.
School of Engineering and
• Our networks of sensors and actuators differ Applied Science
from the traditional networked systems in that, University of Virginia
in aggregate, they must be highly adaptive, 151 Engineer's Way, P.O.
http://www.cs.virginia. must cope with high rates of component
Virginia, USA Box 400740
NEST edu/~control/nest.html failure, mobility, and reconfiguration, and must Charlottesville, Virginia
export a highly configurable set of 22904-4740Phone: (434)
parameterized services that may involve 982-2275
coordinating a rich set of sensors and actuators Fax: (434) 982-2214
in the network core. Email:stankovic@cs.virginia.
• This functionality will be supported by edu
composable microprotocols that allow behavior
specification, perform large-scale component
Office: 228E Olsson Hall,
coordination, and export the perception of

customized QoS guarantees. UVa

Chien-Liang Fok
Doctoral Student
Office Phone: 1 (314) 935-
• Positioning Mobile agents in the optimal 7535
locations for performing application-specific Lab Phone: 1 (314) 935-7526
Agilla: tasks. Thus saving energy by bringing Fax: 1 (314) 935-7302
A Mobile computation to the data rather than requiring liangfok@wustl.edu
Agent http://mobilab.wustl.ed
USA that the data be sent over unreliable wireless
Middleware u/projects/agilla/
links. Thus increasing the utility of a WSN. Computer Science and
for Wireless • Agilla programs to control where mobile agent Engineering
Sensor go and to maintain both their code and state Washington University in St.
Networks across migrations. Louis
One Brookings Dr., Campus
Box 1045
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
USC/Information Sciences
Institute
• Exploring sensor-net-specific MAC protocol Suite 1001
design, improving energy efficiency by 4676 Admiralty Way
allowing radios to sleep when not in use, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-
MACSS: coordinating the MAC protocol with the 6695
physical layer and sensors. U.S.A.
MAC http://www.isi.edu/ilen
USA Office: 1140
Protocols se/macss/
• Studying how sensor net applications differ from telephone: +1 (310) 448-8708
Specific for Internet-style applications. e-mail: johnh@isi.edu
Sensor
Networks • Releasing of a software

Indranil Gupta
http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/r
Office address:3112 Siebel
esearch?action=topic&t
DPRG Center Mailing address:MC
opic=Sensor+and+Ad-
• Sensor Network Code Update System via 258
URBANA Hoc+Networks
Network Coding 201 N. Goodwin Ave
Distributed USA
Urbana, IL 61801 Office
protocol http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/
phone:1-217-265-5517 E-
research group docs/adapcode/PID552
mail:indy at cs dot uiuc dawt
601.pdf
edu
Dr. Arjan Durresi

Assistant Professor
• Reliable Query Reporting in Adaptive Sensor
Networks
Sensor Louisiana State Science
http://csc.lsu.edu/senso • Secure Distribution and Access in Distributed
Networking University Phone: (225) 578-3902
Laboratory r_web/ Sensor Networks
USA Email: durresi@csc.lsu.edu
• Survivable Sensor Networks URL:
http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~durresi
• Objective of formulating and addressing

optimization of data gathering, data analysis,
Zoe Cardon
data coverage, modeling and inference when
19 T.W. Alexander Drive
Samsi the network itself is a dynamic system of self-
P.O. Box 14006
Program on organizing nodes to existing environmental
http://www.samsi.info/ Research Triangle Park, NC
Environmental networks designed to study biosphere-
USA programs/2007sensorne 27709-4006
Sensor atmospheric interactions.
tprogram.shtml Tel: 919.685.9350
Networks • Frameworks for adaptive sampling: game- Fax: 919.685.9360
theoretic, reinforced learning, dynamic info@samsi.info
experimental design. Environmental modeling
envsensors@samsi.info
from sensor networks

• To define and demonstrate an intelligent sensor
system for military operation in complex
terrains for future Canadian Army Tel.: (613) 991-3313
requirements. Fax: (613) 998-5355
• The sensors collaborate in performing sensing E-mail: info@crc.gc.ca
http://www.crc.gc.ca/en tasks and improve detection and tracking Communications Research
SASNet Canada /html/manetsensor/hom performance through multiple observations, Centre
e/projects/sasnet geometric diversity, extended detection range 3701 Carling Avenue
and faster response time. P.O. Box 11490, Stn. H
• SASNet will apply recent technological Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2
developments in wireless, ad-hoc networks,
sensors, fusion, information processing,
localization and networking.
• To arrange the sensors in such a way that the

network has the clearest possible picture of its Prof. Ajay Gupta
environment; fewer sensors will be located in Professor
areas of relatively low interest, while more WiSe Lab
Dynamic
sensors will be located in areas of high interest Department of Computer
Sensor http://www.cs.wmich.e
USA in order to increase the data available on those Science
Networks du/wsn/projects.html
areas. Western Michigan University
• A fundamental aspect of the network will be its Phone: (269) 276-3104
ability to move its sensors dynamically as the Fax : (269) 276-3122
environment changes, thus making it adaptable
to an ever-changing environment.
Adrian Perrig
• Key distribution is the basic task of preloading
Email Address
http://sparrow.ece.cmu. secret information onto sensor nodes to allow
Sensor :perrig@cmu.edu
USA edu/group/research_pro the establishment of shared secret keys for
Networks Office CIC (Collaborative
jects.html#sensors secrecy, authentication and integrity..
Innovation Center) 2107
• Designing algorithms to detect the presence of
Telephone 412 268 2242

falsified aggregation results in sensor networks, Mailing Address 2110 CIC
thus ensuring the integrity of reported data 4720 Forbes Avenue
even in the presence of adversarial sensor Pittsburgh, PA 1521
nodes.
KatiaObraczka
Address
323 Engineering 2 Building
• VSN (Visual Sensor Networks) intends to
Baskin School of Engineering
address the issues in a visual sensor networks
University of California
related to network protocols, computer vision
Visual Sensor 1156 High Street
http://inrg.cse.ucsc.edu/ algorithms and their interaction.
Networks USA Santa Cruz, CA 95064
vsn.html
• Setting up a Visual Sensor Network testbed
Phone and Email
• Handling energy consumption issues Voice: (831) 459-4308
Fax: (831) 459-4829
E-mail: katia@cse. ucsc .edu
• Techniques involve the design of advanced

Adaptive
digital systems for application-specific
Communicatio
http://www1.aston.ac.u embedded systems and advanced algorithms Aston Triangle, Birmingham,
ns Networks Birmingham
k/eas/research/groups/a for improving network efficiency. B4 7ET.
Research Britain
cnrg/ • Use of state-of-the-art dynamic field +44 (0)121 204 3000
Group
programmable gate array hardware to examine
physical implementations of these principles.
• To design and implement the programming and Azer Bestavros

http://www.cs.bu.edu/g run-time infrastructure necessary for Professor Department of
snBench Boston
roups/sensorium/Resou developers to specify and deploy truly Computer Science
USA
rces.html distributed applications over a heterogeneous College of Arts & Sciences
network of Sensing Elements (SEs) and of Boston University

Computing Elements (CEs). Office: 111 Cummington
• Applications may (1) locate, monitor, and query Street, MCS-276, Boston,
SEs and CEs for services they support, and (2) MA 02215
initiate, control, or otherwise use such SE and Tel: 617.353.9726 / Fax:
CE services. 617.353.6457 / Email: best
@bu.edu
• Investigating the use of wireless sensor networks

(WSNs) for the creation of an intelligent
pervasive infrastructure to extend the
usefulness of enterprise information systems in
suitable application domains. Network Convenor
• Objectives Professor Xiaofang Zhou
School of Information
• Perform a survey on WSNs in various domains
Technology and Electrical
Taskforce on • Identify emerging WSN research challenges and
Engineering
Wireless http://www.eii.edu.au/t trends especially related to communication,
Australia The University of
Sensor askforce0506/wsn data processing and storage, and knowledge
Queensland
Networks discovery.
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
• Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration especially Phone: +61 7 3365 2989
between electronic engineers, computer Fax: +61 7 3365 3248
scientists and specific domain experts Email: zxf@eii.edu.au
• Identify significant opportunities for Australian
industries e.g. for health, agriculture, steel and
gas industries
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Pedro

• Research of Cooperating Objects. (Combination
Sensor Networks José Marrón
http://iv.cs.uni- of embedded systems, wireless sensor networks
and Pervasive Germany Conet Office: Elke Schulte-
Computing bonn.de/wg/snpc/ and pervasive computing technology into
Lippern
coherent systems)
Office hours: Mo-Fr 9-16

• Establishing technical and theoretical foundation (A415)
for Cooperating objects. Phone: +49 228 73-4430
• Applications related with the reliable control of pjmarron@cs.uni-bonn.de
physical processes, the self-managing
acquisition of the state of the physical world,
and the seamless and distraction-free support of
human users through computerized devices.
• Investigating energy-efficient medium access

control protocol design, including contention-
based and schedule-based schemes.
• Cognitive routing methodologies for scalability
enhancement.
• Cross-layer protocol development, combining
medium access control with routing
New Wireless
functionality.
Sensor http://www.elec.york.a
York • Security-conscious wireless sensor network
Network c.uk/comms/sensornet pdm@ohm.york.ac.uk
UK design.
Research works.html
• The use of aerial platforms to remove the
communications burden from energy-
constrained nodes within a wireless sensor
network.
• The deployment of wireless sensors within
aircraft, as a replacement for wired
infrastructure.
• To build and customize a set of wireless Christian F. Tschudin

Perma
http://cn.cs.unibas.ch/pr measurement units for use in remote areas with Computer Science
Sense Switzerland
ojects/permasense/ harsh environmental monitoring conditions. Department
• Gathering of environmental data that helps to Bernoullistrasse 16

understand the processes that connect climate CH - 4056 Basel, Switzerland
change and rock fall in permafrost areas. Tel: +41 61 267 05 57
• Enabling easy monitoring of larger permafrost Fax: +41 61 267 05 59
areas with denser sampling, leading to better E-mail:
predictions on the consequences of global christian.tschudin@unibas.ch
warming for alpine regions.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 763500

Fax: +44 (0)1223 334678
Head of Department:
Professor Andy Hopper
Security of • Designing topology consisting of smaller clusters
Email: cb210@cl.cam.ac.uk
Wireless http://www.cl.cam.ac.u (several dozens) of wireless motes.
CAMBRIDGE University of Cambridge
Sensor k/research/security/sens • Security of sensor networks from several
UK Computer Laboratory
Networks ornets/ different angles.
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
UK
Prof. JW (Wimpie) Odendaal

• The research focus is on emerging concepts and Department of Electrical,
technologies adding value to distributed Electronic and Computer
sensing and control networks. Engineering
Distributed
http://www.ee.up.ac.za/ • This has strong synergies with the concepts University of Pretoria
Sensor
South Africa main/en/research/conta defined by the ITU (International 0002, PRETORIA
Networks
ctinfo Telecommunications Union) (2005) as the Telephone: (012) 420-3545
Internet of Things, Forrester Research (2006) Fax: (012) 362-5000
as the X Internet and Gartner Research (2006) Email:
as the Real World Web. wimpie.odendaal@eng.up.ac.
za

NIST, 100 Bureau Drive,
Wireless • Transmitting signals, by exploring new Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD
Sensor application areas for wireless sensors, by 20899-1070
http://www.bfrl.nist.go
Research at USA developing efficient means of transmitting Email: inquiries@nist.gov
v/WirelessSensor/
NIST messages through networks, and by developing Phone: (301) 975-NIST
standards to ease their use. (6478) or TTY (301) 975-
8295
Sarah Bergbreiter
497 Cory Hall
http://www- • Investigating algorithms ising mobile robots for
UC Berkeley
CotsBots Berkeley, CA, USA bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/ cooperation, and distributed sensing in large (>
projects/cotsbots/ 50) robot networks
Berkeley, CA 94720
sbergbre at
eecs.berkeley.edu
http://barbara.stattenfiel • A network protocol for radio power scheduling in

FPS Berkeley, CA, USA hohltb@CS.Berkeley.EDU
d.org/fps/ wireless sensor networks.

http://galsc.sourceforge • A Language for Event-Driven Embedded
galC Berkeley, CA, USA
.net/ Systems
• Advancing the field of Wireless Sensor Networks

in areas of RF circuit design, networking,
positioning, low voltage digital design, antenna
design, and low power analog design.
http://bwrc.eecs.berkele
• Interdisciplinary collaboration to bring together
Pico_Radio Berkeley, CA, USA y.edu/Research/Pico_R tufan_at_eecs.berkeley.edu
MEMS devices, energy scavenging, advanced
adio/
packaging, advanced networking and
communications theory, and environmental
building applications.

• New and innovative solution based on wireless
Alberto Marchetti-
ad-hoc and multi-hop networks consisting of
Spaccamela
spatially distributed autonomous devices using
Dipartimento di Informatica e
sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or
Sistemistica "Antonio
environmental conditions (such as temperature,
Ruberti"
WSN group at light, humidity, PH etc.).
http://wiserver.dis.unir Sapienza Università di Roma
DIS Italy • Testing solutions on simulators (e.g. NS2,
oma1.it/cms/ Room B212
OMNET++, e-mail:
TOSSIM) and then deploying them in small,
alberto@dis.uniroma1.it
but significant testbeds, typically made of
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~
heterogeneous HW (TelosB and SUN SPOT),
alberto
in order to verify their performances on real
environments.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Adam Wolisz

Energy • Self-organizing and collaborative energy-
Efficient EMAIL: awo@ieee.org
http://www.tkn.tu- efficient sensor networks.
Sensor Germany Technische Universität
berlin.de/research/eyes/ • Applications like smart spaces, environmental
Networks Berlin,
monitoring, active structures, etc.
(EYES) Dept. of Electrical
Engineering

Telecommunication
Networks
Sekr. FT-5, Einsteinufer 25,
10587 Berlin, Germany
Phone: (+49 30) 314-22911
(TU Berlin)
Fax: (+49 30) 314-23818
(TU Berlin)

• The objective of the project is to develop
wireless sensor and actuator networks for a
range of applications, including industrial
Lasse Eriksson
applications...
Lic. Tech.
• Cross-layer optimization approach to develop
Researcher
networking protocols, sensor fusion techniques,
Office: 3581
and control methods that work in harmony,
WiSA Phone: +358 9 451 5231
http://www.control.tkk. enabling wide deployment of wireless
Finland (office), +358 50 384 1715
fi/Research/WiSA/ industrial automation and monitoring
(GSM)
applications.
Email: lasse.eriksson@tkk.fi
• Development of wireless communications (MAC Mail address: PL 5500, FI-
and network layers) distributed data fusion 02015 TKK, Finland
algorithms, sensor network and process
diagnostics distributed and hierarchical control
principles.

• Gaining insight into the dynamics of rapid
gravity-driven flows, such as avalanches and
Real-time earth mass movements, by using a sensor-
avalanche and network based monitoring system.
landslide Edoardo Charbon
http://www.mics.org/m • To improve fluid-mechanics models describing
analysis edoardo.charbon@epfl.ch
icsCluster.php?groupN the flow behavior of avalanches.
through sensor Switzerland office(s): INF135
ame=CL2&action=proj • Applications such as detecting acceleration of a
network phone(s): [+41 21 69] 36487
ects#P5 landsliding mass), thus enabling appropriate fax: +41-21-693-5263
measures to be taken on time to minimize loss
of life or for rescue operations (e.g., to detect
skiers buried in an avalanche).

• Distributed, mobile sensor network and Hari Balakrishnan
telematics system. Professor
• Applications built on top of this system can Department of EECS
collect, process, deliver, analyze, and visualize Room 32-G940
data from sensors located on mobile units such Computer Science and
http://cartel.csail.mit.ed as automobiles and smartphones. Artificial Intelligence
CarTel u/doku.php • In our deployment, a small embedded computer Laboratory (CSAIL)
interfaces with a variety of sensors, processes The Stata Center, 32 Vassar
the collected data, and delivers it to an Internet St.
server. Massachusetts Institute of
• Applications running on the server analyze this Technology
data and provide interesting services to users. Cambridge, MA 02139

Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
µAMPS • Focus on signal and power conditioning, Department of Electrical
http://www- communication, and collaboration. Engineering and Computer
µ-adaptive
mtl.mit.edu/researchg • Exploring programmable solutions for Science
multi domain USA 50 Vassar Street, 38-107
roups/icsystems/uam implementing the above functions.
power aware Cambridge, MA 02139
ps/ • To provide an energy-efficient and scalable
sensors tel: +1 (617) 258-7619
solution for a range of sensor applications.
fax: +1 (617) 253-5053
e-mail: anantha@mtl.mit.edu

• Projects applying pervasive computing
technologies in the natural environment. These
include larger-scale reconfigurable pervasive
computing such as data acquisition for coastal
and flood monitoring programmes (Secoas and
FloodNet), and high tech designs such as our
subglacial probes to study climate change Director Prof David De
through its effects on glaciers (GlacsWeb). Roure
• Using Sensor Networks in conjunction with state School of Electronics and
of the art software technologies including Computer Science
energy-efficient routing, intelligent agents, the University of Southampton
Semantic Web and Grid computing. Southampton
• Project FloodNet is deploying nodes with SO17 1BJ, UK
significant computational power around a river Email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://envisense.org/the
UK floodplain. The information returned from the phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418
Envi Sense centre.htm
river is processed and used in the adaptive
sampling feedback loop, whereby sensor
sampling rates are increased in anticipation of
flooding events.
• Project Secoas is deploying a larger number of
smart sensors to measure sea bed movement.
The sensors are capable of dynamic self-
configuration and use decentralized algorithms
that enable automated adaptation to failures,
upgrades and requirement changes.
• GlacsWeb is monitoring glacier behaviour via
different sensors and linking them together into
an intelligent web of resources.

Rice University
MIMO Center for Multimedia
Antenna Communications
System -
Wireless LAN http://www.ece.rice.edu
USA • Remote monitoring of structures.
Networks - /~cavallar/cmclab/
Gnomes
Sensor
Network

• Diffusing IT into everyday objects and settings,
and to see how this can lead to new ways of
supporting and enhancing people's lives that go
above and beyond what is possible with the
computer today.
• Initiative focuses on three-interlinked objectives
http://www.disappear • Create information artefacts based on new
Norbert Streitz
The software and hardware architectures that are
ing- streitz@ipsi.fraunhofer.de
disappearing Germany integrated into everyday objects.
computer.net/projects Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt,
computer • Look at how collections of artefacts can act
.html Germany
together, so as to produce new behaviour and
new functionality.
• Investigate the new approaches for designing for
collections of artefacts in everyday settings,
and how to ensure that people's experience in
these new environments is coherent and
engaging.

Prof. Ozalp Babaoglu
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Wireless Sensor Networks:

A Project supported by Department

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Significant advances in sensing, computing and communication technologies

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The salient features of the present report are:

We would like to express our deep sense of gratitude to Communication Convergence

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WSN is great enabling technology that can revolutionize information and

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The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Department of

Subsequent to this a WSN-Survey form (Appendix B) was sent out to researchers in

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Jan M. Rabaey of the University of California at Berkeley started the PicoRadio

The µAMPS program, led by Principal Investigator Anantha Chandrakasan at the

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Underwater Acoustic and Deep Space Networks

Although public funding of packet-switched systems development (mostly for defense

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WSNs are capable of enhancing system performance significantly so they hold

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• Tracking a Mobile Target using Energy Constrained Wireless

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• IRIS OEM Edition:

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• CRICKET MCS410: The MCS410CA, Cricket Mote, is a location aware

• Epic: It is an open mote platform for application driven design from UC

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1. Security and surveillance

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7. Health (Body Area Networks)

9. Supply chain management

10. Underwater Sensor Networks

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11. Future markets

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Potential Markets and commercial drivers

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Some partnerships have already been started, for example:

Cross Disciplinary activities in WSN

Bottleneck in WSN RDD (Research Development and Deployment)

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Need to move forward an set up virtual centers

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4. Agriculture being one of the largest sectors of Indian It will be great to

5. Initially, target applications could be set of applications those are important

6. Tripartite Collaboration between Academia, Government and Industry.

8. Support sensor development research in industries.

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