NSF-CRI'07 Plenary Presentation
June 4, 2007
The Sensorium Research Infrastructure at Boston
University
Azer Bestavros and Margrit Betke
Computer Science Department
Boston University
Abstract
The
Sensorium infrastructure and associated projects in the CS Department at
Boston University aim to catalyze fundamental advances in image and video
computing, wireless and sensor network protocols, and real-time resource
management techniques to deal with unique spatio-temporal constraints of
sensor networks in general and of embedded video sensor networks in
particular. The Sensorium infrastructure is composed of a sensor network of
video cameras, motes, and wireless radio sniffers, installed in several
contiguous rooms and hallways, which are all networked with embedded (in
situ) and centralized processing units, with access to a multi-terabyte data
store, which are all managed together to satisfy queries, including those
generated by users within this environment. In contrast to current sensory
systems which are conceived (and built) as special purpose systems with
custom-developed architectures, the Sensorium architecture was conceived and
acquired by relying on commodity hardware and freely available software,
opening up much wider access to sensory systems to the computer science
research community.
Note:
The CS Department at Boston University will be holding a Research Open House
on Monday June 4th and Tuesday June 5th (1pm-4pm) during which graduate
students will be available to show off their projects using posters and live
demos. All are welcome!
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