Sensors, signal processing, and wireless communication technologies have matured to the point where large networks of sensor nodes can now be easily deployed in a wide variety of environments, making them very attractive for large-scale applications like environmental monitoring, security surveillance, and disaster relief. Often battery-powered, sensor nodes are capable of sensing, computing, and communicating information, and a key design issue is how to replace power-hungry global communication and centralized computation by efficient parallel, local communication and computation. In this talk, I will review the wide range of sensor networking and distributed signal processing projects at Rice, including distributed algorithms for localizing networks of cameras, the GNOMES sensor mote, and a sensor network testbed in the Peruvian rainforest.
9:30am
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall 1055
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