Danny Hughes
Nelly Bencomo
Paul Grace
ABSTRACT
This demonstration showcases the Gridkit middleware in a flood monitoring and warning scenario. Gridkit provides the services required to support wireless sensor network based environmental monitoring and also hosts lightweight hydraulic models which are used to provide timely alerts to local residents warning of imminent flood events. In this scenario, Gridkit abstracts over a number of low-level sensing, computational and networking technologies. This paper and associated demonstration will show that using distributed dynamic reconfiguration, these heterogeneous sensor network technologies may be safely adapted to cope with changing environmental conditions while providing timely flood warnings, resulting in significant power savings and performance improvements.
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Digital Library
- Coulson G., Blair G., Grace P., Taiani F., Joolia A., Lee K., Ueyama J., Sivaharan T., A Generic Component Model for Building Systems Software, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 26, Issue 1, Article 1, February 2008. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dust Networks, SmartMesh-XT 2135 data-sheet, available online at: http://www.dustnetworks.com/docs/M2135.pdf, 2008.Google Scholar
- GumStix Embedded Computing Platform, http://gumstix.com/, February 2008.Google Scholar
- Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., An Intelligent and Adaptable Flood Monitoring and Warning System, in the proceedings of the 5th UK E-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM'06), Nottingham, UK, September 2006.Google Scholar
- Hughes D., Daude M., Coulson G., Blair G., Managing Heterogeneous Data Flows in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a 'Split Personality' Mote Platform, in the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2008), Turku, Finland, July 2008.Google Scholar
- Smith P., Beven K., Tych W., Hughes D., Blair G., The Provision of Site Specific Flood Warnings Using Wireless Sensor Networks., in the proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FloodRisk'08), Oxford, UK, September 2008.Google Scholar
- Coulson G., Hughes D., Blair G., Grace P., The Evolution of the GridStix Wireless Sensor Network Platform, in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE 08), co-located with International Conference of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 08), Santorini, Greece, June 2008.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Exploiting extreme heterogeneity in a flood warning scenario using the Gridkit middleware
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