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

该提案是一个探索性项目，旨在调查在现有物理基础设施（电力或通信）很少或没有的地区部署传感器网络，以监测生态系统。洪都拉斯湾群岛等岛屿地区是目标环境。还将探索危机地区作为试点和试验区。该提案针对的是应用于环境问题的先进网络基础设施领域。该项目的第一个目标是评估可能的实地地点，并创建一个或两个小型试点测试，以探索传感器网络中尚未解决的问题。 其次是创建一个具有挑战性的网络在现场问题的分类-回答问题：什么是现有的商业技术，什么是新兴的技术（研究原型），以及在能力的差距。

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.