[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Lecture: Wireless Sensor Networks

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Title:                                       Wireless Sensor Networks to
Detect Rainfall-Induced Landslides: The Euro-India Project

 

Speaker:                                Maneesha V. Ramesh, computer
science and engineering lecturer, Amrita University, Amritapuri, India

 

Time:                                      11 a.m. - noon            

 

Date:                                       Tuesday, June 19, 2007

 

Location:                                Calit2 Building, Room 3008

 

Abstract:                                 Wireless sensor networks have
gained immense attention for their applications in emergency situations.
Amrita University - through the WINSOC project, a unique Indo-European
Consortium funded by the European Commission - is applying wireless
sensor networks to real-life landslide monitoring and detection
scenarios. The project brings together scientists from diverse fields,
such as geology and geophysics, and mechanical, computer, electrical,
electronics, and communication engineering to save human lives, preserve
the environment and mitigate property damage.

 

The wireless sensor networks enable new paradigms of broad-scale
environmental and hazardous situation monitoring in which relatively
large numbers of inexpensive sensor nodes will collect data and
automatically couple together to aggregate data in reliable local
decision-making processes. This complex and heterogeneous wide-area
network will be put in place in the Idukki Rainforest area of the
southern state of Kerala, India. This region experiences numerous
rainfall-induced landslides during every monsoon season. The network
architecture as specific to landslide scenarios is constructed with a
lower level of wireless network nodes that are connected to a column of
geological sensor. These nodes are then connected to a hierarchy of
upper-level wireless nodes that forward the data on to a central
data-collection point. From there, the data is sent wirelessly to a
local analysis computer, from which it is then forwarded over the Indian
Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Edusat Satellite and Village
Resource Center satellite network to a more sophisticated landslide data
processing and modeling center located at Amrita University.

 

 

Bio:                                         Ramesh is the lead
researcher of the project at Amrita University that brings together
researchers and several European partners, under WINSOC
(www.winsoc.org), a unique Indo-European Consortium funded by the
European Commission. WINSOC, Wireless Sensor Networks with
Self-Organization Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications,
focuses on developing a new method of wireless sensor networking that
mimics biological systems. Other participants include organizations such
as Italy's Selex Communication, DUNE, and the University of Rome;
Spain's Sapienza and the University Polytechnic of Catalonia;
Switzerland's EPFL (Ecole Polytechnic - Lausanne), the Czech Republic's
Center for Science and Society, Greece's INTRACOM, France's CEAL-LETI
(Commission for Atomic Energy), and India's Antrix.  Maneesha presented
her findings at EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this year, and
more recently to a select audience in Barcelona, Spain.  

 

 

Additional Information:                     Following the talk, the
Amrita team, led by Prof. Venkat Rangan, vice chancellor of Amrita
University, and Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, program director of the
US-India Initiative, will be available for discussions with interested
UCI researchers and faculty on collaborative research and teaching
initiatives.

 

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