Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure
Speaker: Dr. Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date: Friday, April 25 2008
Time: 3:30PM to 4:30PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Host: Lewis Girod, CSAIL
Contact: Lewis Girod, x3-0960, ldgirod@csail.mit.edu
Relevant URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/limhb/TITLE: Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure
ABSTRACT:
Sensor networks have emerged as an exciting technology for a wide
range of important applications that acquire and process
information from the physical world. Sensor grids extend the
paradigm of grid computing to the sharing of sensor resources in
sensor networks. A sensor grid integrates sensor resources with
distributed and networked computational and storage resources.
A key ingredient for the widespread adoption of sensor networks
is the cyber-sensor infrastructure for the efficient collection
and management of data from distributed and heterogeneous sensors
and other information sources. This infrastructure addresses the
collection, querying, processing, visualization, archival, and
searching of vast amounts of sensor data.
In this talk, I will first explain the relevance of sensor grids
as an enabling technology for the next generation cyber-sensor
infrastructure. To address the key issues and challenges in the
design of sensor grids, we have developed a sensor grid
architecture framework called the Scalable Proxy-based
aRchItecture for seNsor Grid (SPRING). At present, we are
developing the National Weather Sensor Grid (NWSG), a large-scale
sensor grid connecting hundreds of mini weather stations deployed
in schools throughout Singapore. I will discuss the design and
implementation of the NWSG based on the SPRING framework.
BIO
Dr. Hock Beng Lim is program director of the Intelligent Systems
Center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is
also affiliated with SMART, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for
Research and Technology. He received his BS in Computer
Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and PhD in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering
from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor
networks and sensor grids, ambient intelligence, parallel and
distributed computing, wireless and mobile networks, embedded
systems, computer architecture, performance evaluation, e-Science
and high-performance computing.
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