This following is a list of projects we are currently undertaking in the group.

Supporting Environmental Applications with Wireless Sensor Networks and Cloud Computing.

The research explores the combination of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Cloud Computing. WSNs are low power devices that are commonly used to in environmental monitoring applications. Cloud computing provides publicly available, flexible and dynamic computing architecture. It is arguable that these vastly different areas are perfectly suited. WSNs have periodic communication models where large periods of inactivity are followed by bursts of information. Alternatively, some WSNs wait until certain conditions are met before reporting information and therefore produce sudden bursts of data. The Cloud can provide the computational dynamism required to receive and interpret these infrequent bursts of information. Integrating these two technologies could lead to i) support for handing dynamic/periodic load in Sensor Networks ii) allowing multiple user access to Sensor Network resources, and iii) the creation of new applications. This work is of relevance to environmental and industrial application, anywhere that can benefit from a large number of cheap sensors and abundant processing.

Wiki for this project is here