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Newsletter issue #16

2012's first newsletter contains on the SPINE2 framework, co-operative Air Traffic Management, the makeSende project and SCHNEIDER's member profile.


Call for Papers: CONET 2012

The Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects is organized again by CONET and will be co-located with CPSWeek 2012. Submission deadline is January 30th, 2012.


EWSN 2012/CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards

*** Extended deadline for applications: December 31st, 2011 *** The Chairs of the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award...


Piaggio

Testbed NamePiaggio
Operational StatusSet-up phase
InstitutionCentro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "E. Piaggio"
Public Websitehttp://www.piaggio.ing.unipi.it/
Contact Person NameRiccardo Schiavi
Contact Person E-mailriccardo.schiavi AT ing.unipi.it
Technology FocusWireless Sensor Networks, Autonomous Robots
Deployment ScenarioIndoor partitioned space (e.g.: office space)
Deployment Pattern Non-uniform 2D (e.g.: scattered deployment on a single floor in a building)
Mobility SupportFixed nodes, Mobile nodes
Total Number of Supported Nodes40
Horizontal Node Spacingup to (x,y)=(10,10)
Vertical Node Spacing
Variability of Supported SUT PlatformsSingle - homogeneous SUT
Primary SUT PlatformTmote Sky
Number of Nodes from the Primary SUT Platform40
Additional SUT Platform
Number of Nodes from the Additional SUT Platform
SUT SensorsTemperature, IR light, Ultrasound
SUT ActuatorsIR-LED, Ultrasound, Position (node mobility)
Power Supply of SUT NodesBattery, Power over USB
Control/Monitoring Plane SeparationIn-band (control/monitoring plane and SUT data share the same medium/channel)
Control/Monitoring Plane Communication Technologies802.15.4
Control/Monitoring Plane Architecturedistributed
Control/Monitoring Plane Gateway Platforms
Job Execution ModelBatch (automatic execution of jobs without user intervention), Interactive (direct user control over the job execution process)
Job ConcurrencyConcurrency per node ID (concurrent jobs have to use different sets of node IDs)
Job Registration and Scheduling InterfaceGUI client
Authentication and Authorization ArchitectureNo authentication and authorization
Job Control Interface
SUT Node Control ServicesData collection
SUT Data Access Indirect access to serial/secondary channel via data persistence on the server
SUT Data PersistenceDatabase storage in raw text format
Time Stamping ServicesSource-based time-stamping (time stamping in the SUT)
Integration with Simulators and EmulatorsNo integration
Remote Use PolicyNo remote access