Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)

嵌入式网络传感中心（CENS）的研究重点将是创建可扩展、鲁棒、自适应的传感器/执行器网络所需的基础科学和工程研究。密集分布、网络化传感和驱动的愿景需要在许多信息技术领域取得进展。此外，在技术和应用程序以及它所嵌入的物理环境之间存在着关键的相互作用。通过在特定和高影响科学应用的背景下进行研究，CENS将通过高分辨率，现场监测和驱动实现新的科学发现。同时，cns将探索将嵌入式网络传感应用于广泛应用所需的基本原理和技术。该中心最初将重点关注基础技术和四个实验应用驱动因素：生物复杂性研究的栖息地监测、空间密集地震传感和结构响应、污染物流动监测和建模，以及海洋微生物的检测和鉴定。为了支持这一范围，CENS将把来自不同工程学科的教师的专业知识与生物、环境和地球科学家的专业知识结合起来。在中心的生命周期内，将寻求将该技术应用于自然和工程系统的更多机会。CENS的教育重点将是双重的：通过访问真实世界的实时传感器网络询问，为7-12年级的科学课程提供新的动手实验能力，以及教师培训的材料，以及本科生在尖端技术（如无线系统，MEMS，嵌入式软件）和科学应用（如生物复杂性，地震和环境监测）方面的研究机会，重点是少数民族学生。CENS将从其参与的校园以及更大的研究和教育社区的大量相关活动中受益并做出贡献，包括：加州大学洛杉矶分校的加州纳米系统研究所，纯粹和应用数学研究所，纳米电子学研究设施；南加州大学信息科学研究所，箭牌环境研究所；UC储备系统；加州州立大学和GLOBE教师培训项目；INEEL， JPL政府实验室；DARPA和nsf相关的研究活动。许多组成技术将具有近期和长期的商业相关性。

ABSTRACT0120778U of Calif - Los AngelesThe research focus of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) will be the fundamental science and engineering research needed to create scalable, robust, adaptive, sensor/actuator networks. The vision of densely distributed, networked sensing and actuation requires advances in many areas of information technology. Moreover, there is a critical interplay between the technology and the applications and physical context in which it is embedded. By conducting research in the context of specific and high-impact scientific applications, CENS will enable new scientific discovery through high resolution, in situ monitoring and actuation. At the same time, CENS will explore the fundamental principles and technologies needed to apply embedded networked sensing to a wide range of applications.The Center will focus initially on fundamental technology and on four experimental application drivers: habitat monitoring for bio-complexity studies, spatially-dense seismic sensing and structure response, monitoring and modeling contaminant flows, and detection and identification of marine microorganisms. To support this scope, CENS will combine the expertise of faculty from diverse engineering disciplines with the expertise of biological, environmental and earth scientists. During the lifetime of the Center, additional opportunities for applying the technology to natural and engineered systems will be pursued.The CENS educational focus will be twofold: new hands-on experimental capabilities for grades 7-12 science curriculum through access to real-world, real-time, sensor-network interrogation, along with materials for teacher-training, and undergraduate research opportunities in cutting-edge technologies (e.g., wireless systems, MEMS, embedded software) and scientific applications (e.g., bio-complexity, seismic and environmental monitoring), with emphasis on under-represented minority students.CENS will benefit from and contribute to a large number of related activities on its participating campuses, and in the larger research and education community, including: UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Nanoelectronics Research Facility; USC's Information Sciences Institute, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies; UC Reserve systems; Cal State and GLOBE Teacher training programs; INEEL, JPL government laboratories; DARPA, and NSF-related research activities. Many of the constituent technologies will have near- and long-term commercial relevance.