CRI:II-NEW: Design of a Solar-powered River Sensor Network Tested

CRI:II-NEW：经过测试的太阳能河流传感器网络设计

• 批准号: 0855128
• 负责人: Deepak Ganesan
• 金额: $ 66.27万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRI; II; NEW; Design; Solar

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Given the growing global importance of water issues caused by dwindling water resources and global climate change, building and deploying a real-time sensing infrastructure across water bodies---including rivers, streams, and watersheds --- will be one of the great scientific hurdles and also one of the great research opportunities of the next several decades. Despite numerous technological advances in wireless sensor networks, a chasm separates what is offered by off-the-shelf products and what is needed by scientists for robust, easy deployment of a monitoring infrastructure over running waters. This research involves the design of a solar-powered river sensor network testbed that will enable the vision of perpetual river sensor deployments streaming data continually to laboratory servers.This testbed will enable fundamental, cross-disciplinary research on developing robust, easily deployable over-water wireless networks as well as sensor platforms for monitoring rivers and streams. Specific research challenges include design of solar-powered wireless networks to address lack of electrical infrastructure, heterogeneous multi-radio sensor nodes and protocols to address problems posed by sparse deployments over large geographic regions, and self-managing sensor networks for unattended management. In addition to addressing Computer Science research problems, the testbed will enable environmental scientists to study several scientific research questions, while using the testbed as a test site for larger real-time monitoring deployments in other rivers. The proposed testbed will also directly impact undergraduate research and student diversity by 1) involving undergraduate students through REU programs, 2) impacting curriculum development by enabling field courses in sensor networks and ecology, and 3) involving local high schools to highlight river conservation issues.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(Public Law 111-5)资助的。鉴于水资源减少和全球气候变化导致的水问题在全球日益重要，在包括河流、溪流和分水岭在内的水体中建立和部署实时传感基础设施将是未来几十年的重大科学障碍和重大研究机会之一。尽管无线传感器网络在技术上取得了许多进步，但现成产品提供了什么，科学家们需要什么，以便在自来水上可靠、轻松地部署监测基础设施，两者之间存在着鸿沟。这项研究涉及设计一个太阳能河流传感器网络试验台，该试验台将使河流传感器永久部署不断向实验室服务器传输数据的愿景成为可能。该试验台将使基础的、跨学科的研究成为可能，以开发强大、易于部署的水上无线网络以及用于监测河流和溪流的传感器平台。具体的研究挑战包括设计太阳能无线网络以解决缺乏电力基础设施的问题，设计异质多无线电传感器节点和协议以解决大范围地理区域稀疏部署带来的问题，以及自我管理传感器网络以实现无人值守管理。除了解决计算机科学研究问题外，试验床还将使环境科学家能够研究几个科学研究问题，同时将试验床用作在其他河流部署更大规模实时监测的试验场。拟议的试验床还将通过以下方式直接影响本科生的研究和学生多样性：1)通过REU项目让本科生参与进来；2)通过开设传感器网络和生态学的实地课程来影响课程发展；3)让当地高中参与突出河流保护问题。