Integrated Sensing: Energy-Aware Articulation in Sensor Networks

传感器网络中的能量感知连接项目将开发并演示一种基本的新型分布式传感能力，该能力将智能节点与连接的电磁通信系统、连接的传感器和连接的能量收集设备相结合。该计划以一种全面的新方法直接解决分布式无线传感器中长期存在的主要问题。分布式、网络化、无线传感器系统正在开发和部署，用于从物理安全到环境监测的各种应用。过去，传统系统以静态方式部署，其关键组件（通信、传感和能量收集）固定在传感器节点包上。这限制了天线结构的选择和传感器系统只能是通用的、固定的系统，这些系统可能在远离最佳配置的情况下运行，严重限制了天线增益和链路能量需求，以及传感器事件检测和识别能力。传感器网络中的能量感知连接项目将通过执行器原理、能量感知连接网络、连接分布式传感和分布式计算基础的融合，开发直接解决这些系统限制的原则。这将基于开放共享试验台中的分布式传感器节点系统，其中包括承载铰接式天线结构（用于优化高增益通信）、铰接式传感器（用于优化和协作事件检测）和铰接式太阳能收集（用于延长使用寿命）的节点。这些功能的组合将影响从部署到检测功能的几乎所有系统特性。

The Energy-Aware Articulation in Sensor Networks program will develop and demonstrate a fundamental, new distributed sensing capability that combine intelligent nodes with articulated electromagnetic communication systems, articulated sensors, and articulated energy collection devices. This program directly addresses primary, long-standing problems in distributed wireless sensors with a comprehensive, new approach.Distributed, networked, wireless sensor systems are being developed and deployed for diverse applications ranging from physical security to environmental monitoring. In the past, conventional systems have been deployed in a static fashion with their critical components (communication, sensing, and energy collection) being fixed to the sensor node package. This limits the antenna structure choices and sensor systems to only general purpose, fixed systems that may operate at far from an optimal configuration with severe limitations on antenna gain and link energy requirements as well as sensor event detection and identification capability. The Energy-Aware Articulation in Sensor Networks program will develop the principles for a direct solution to these system limitations through a convergence of actuator principles, energy-aware articulated networking, articulated distributed sensing, and distributed computing fundamentals. This will be based on distributed sensor node systems in an open, shared testbed that include nodes carrying articulated antenna structures (for optimized, high gain communication), articulated sensors (for optimized and cooperative event detection), and articulated solar energy collection (for extending operating life.) The combination of these capabilities promises to impact nearly all the system characteristics from deployment through detection capability.