Research Projects
SECOAS - a marine wireless sensor network
The DTI funded SECOAS project trialled collective decision making in a sensor network at Scroby Sands near Great Yarmouth. The sensors monitored sedimentation processes around a windfarm site. Similar techniques are now being trialled at Great Crowden Brook in the Peak district, where we are monitoring soil moisture, rainfall and water quality using some NERC SBRI funding with Salamander plc.
DIAS - Extended co-design for wireless sensor networks
This EPSRC-WINES project combines the centre with researchers from Glasgow, Strathclyde, St Andrews and Manchester, and is researching an end to end systems design and integration methodology encompassing automated software generation, data streaming, management tools, embedded AI, networking and radio systems. The testbed for the ideas will be the peak district wireless sensor network.
PROSEN - Proactive condition monitoring of dispersed infrastructures
This EPSRC-WINES project combines the centre with researchers from Strathclyde, Stirling and Essex, alongside Scottish Power, VESTA, NEL and Agilent and is integrating the intelligent sensor network technologies from the SECOAS project into an integrated condition monitoring infrastructure. The initial demo is for a windfarm operator, but companies from the telecoms, water and rail industries are also interested.
TRAMSNOD
TRAMSNOD is an extension of PROSEN, in which the centre is working with researchers from Essex and Strathclyde to develop and test realistic traffic models for networks of intelligent sensors. This will aid network designers in the future.
NEPTUNE
In the latest project Neptune, which is just starting, the centre is collaborating with researchers from Sheffield, Exeter, Imperial, Cambridge, Leicester and De Montfort in conjunction with Yorkshire Water, United Utilities and ABB. The centre will assist with sensor diagnostics, sensor system management (deployment and maintenance), and sensor data disambiguation aspects of the decision support system the project is developing. This role will involve close liaison with the designers of the sensing nodes, and also the creation of a geospatial visualisation of the sensor system and its interactions with external factors (trees buildings, other utility activity, etc.).
ISSNIP
A network funded by the Australian research council combining sensing, AI and communications for a range of applications including environmental observation. The network is providing funds for an Australian deployment of some of our hardware.
VESEL
A project from the "Bridging the Global divide" Ideas network funded by EPSRC, looking into using smart sensor nets in the context of agricultural communities in Kenya. Ian Marshall is an advisor and we plan to visit Kenya with the project team and establish an additional context for our experiments.