CREATIV: Towards Ubiquitous Adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks in Experimental Biology Research.

该CREATIV奖的部分资金来自计算机与信息科学与工程系计算机网络与系统部的网络技术与系统（NeTS）项目、生物科学部综合有机体系统与新兴前沿部门的动物行为项目、刺激竞争性研究的实验项目（EPSCoR）、CISE/CNS部门主任办公室和CISE助理主任办公室。该项目旨在解决在多个跨学科领域采用无线传感器网络（wsn）的主要障碍，特别是高成本、低可定制性、缺乏坚固的设计和复杂的编程模型。项目团队旨在克服这些障碍，提供一种具有潜在变革性的无线传感器网络设计框架，任何人都可以使用这种框架，并且通过大规模无处不在的无线传感器网络实现无处不在的监控和传感。pi将利用他们的多学科和跨领域的专业知识，利用实验生物学研究作为他们的平台来解决这些挑战。本项目的目标是提供和/或实现：1)用于低成本、坚固耐用和可定制的传感器节点的硬件框架，具有广泛的外形因素，2)使用WSNs自主操纵和监测体内和体外电机电路的电生理参数，3)用于监测现场水生动物的新型网络协议和算法，以及4)一个软件框架，使编程WSNs变得简单直观，用户只需最少的编程经验。通过即插即用、易于定制和编程消除采用的障碍，本研究希望使WSNs在我们的日常生活中普遍存在，特别是在生物学研究中。在短期内，该项目将使实验室和现场的实验研究人员能够在没有人为干预的情况下实时刺激和监测动物/标本，这将大大提高对动物对各种刺激反应的理解。从长远来看，这项研究的结果将有助于WSNs在我们的日常生活中无处不在，并且像今天的计算机一样易于使用。该项目将为本科生和研究生（包括女性和少数族裔）提供独特的跨学科学习和研究环境。它将利用新墨西哥州立大学计算机科学系的NSF GK-12 DISSECT、BPC和YWiC计划，让拉斯克鲁塞斯市的初高中学生接触STEM研究，并教授他们计算思维。

This CREATIV award is partially funded by the Networking Technologies and Systems (NeTS) program in the Division of Computer Networks and Systems in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, the Animal Behavior program through the the Divisions of Integrative Organismal Systems and Emerging Frontiers in the Directorate of Biological Sciences, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), the Office of the Division Director in CISE/CNS and the Office of the Assistant Director in CISE. This project aims to address the major barriers to adoption of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in multiple cross-disciplinary domains, particularly high cost, low customizability, lack of rugged designs and complex programming models. The project team aims to surmount these barriers to provide a potentially transformative wireless sensor network design framework that can be used by anyone with minimal technical skills, and yet achieve the benefits of pervasive monitoring and sensing through large-scale ubiquitous wireless sensor networks. The PIs will leverage their multi-disciplinary and cross-domain expertise to address these challenges using experimental biology research as their platform. The goals of this project are to provide and/or enable: 1) a hardware framework for low-cost, rugged, and customizable sensor nodes, in a wide range of form factors, 2) autonomous manipulation and monitoring of electro-physiological parameters of electro-motor circuits in vivo and in vitro using WSNs, 3) novel network protocols and algorithms for monitoring aquatic animals in the field, and 4) a software framework that makes programming WSNs easy and intuitive for users with minimal programming experience. By removing the barriers to adoption through plug-and-play, and easy customization and programming, this proposed research hopes to make WSNs ubiquitous in our daily life in general and in biology research in particular. In the short term, this project will enable experimental researchers in labs and in the field to stimulate and monitor animals/specimen in real-time and without human intervention, which will significantly improve understanding of animal responses to diverse stimuli. In the long term, the outcomes of this research will help WSNs become ubiquitous in our daily life and as easy to use as computers today. The project will provide undergraduate and graduate students including women and minorities in the classes and labs of the PIs the benefit of an unique interdisciplinary learning and research environment. It will leverage NSF GK-12 DISSECT, BPC, and YWiC initiatives in the computer science department of New Mexico State University to expose middle and high school students in the city of Las Cruces to STEM research and teach them computational thinking.