Sensor Andrew: Large-scale campus-wide sensing and actuation

—We present Sensor Andrew, a multi-disciplinary campus-wide scalable sensor network that is designed to host a wide range of sensor, actuator and low-power applications. The goals of Sensor Andrew are to support ubiquitous large-scale monitoring, operation and control of infrastructure in a way that is extensible, easy to use, and secure while maintaining privacy. Target applications currently being developed as part of Sensor Andrew include builing emergency, first-responder support, quality of life for the disabled, monitoring and optimization of water distribution systems, building power monitoring and control, social networking, and biometric sensors for campus security. Sensing devices that are used range from cameras and batteryoperated sensor nodes to energy-monitoring devices wired into building power supplies. Some of these sensing devices may also be mobile and require hand-off between different networked regions. Supporting multiple applications and heterogeneous devices ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: IBMRD
• Authors: Anthony Rowe, Mario Berges, Gaurav Bhatia, Ethan Goldman, Ragunathan Rajkumar, James H. Garrett Jr., José M. F. Moura, Lucio Soibelman
• Keywords: Campus-wide Scalable Sensor, IBMRD 2011, Sensor Data Collection, Sensors