SGER: New Off-Grid Networks in Rural and Wild Environments

该提案是一个探索性项目，旨在调查在几乎没有现有物理基础设施（电力或通信）的地区部署传感器网络，以监测生态系统。岛屿地区，如洪都拉斯的海湾群岛，是目标环境。还将探索危机地区作为试点和试验区。该提案攻击了应用于环境问题的先进网络基础设施领域。该项目的目标是双重的。该项目的第一个目标是评估可能的实地地点，并进行一两个小型试点测试，以探索传感器联网中尚未解决的问题。其次是创建一个具有挑战性的领域网络问题的分类，以回答以下问题：什么是现有的商业技术，什么是新兴技术（研究原型），以及能力上的差距在哪里。

The proposal is for an exploratory project to investigate deployment of sensor networks in areas with little to no existing physical infrastructure (power or communications) for the purpose of monitoring the ecosystem. Island areas, such as the Bay Islands of Honduras, are the target environments. Crisis areas will also be explored for pilot and test zones. This proposal attacks an area of advanced cyberinfrastructure applied to environmental problems.The goal of the project is two-fold. The first goal of the project is to assess possible field sites and to create one or two small pilot tests to explore unsolved problems in sensor networking. Second is to create a taxonomy of challenging networking-in-the field problems - to answer the questions: what are the existing commercial technologies, what are the emerging technologies (research prototypes), and where the gaps are in the capability.