AUM AMRITESWARYAI NAMAH

Wireless Sensor Networks Research @ AMRITA

Introduction
WSN Research @ AMRITA Future Direction of WSN Research

WSN Research@ AMRITA

WINSOC ( Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications) Sensor Development Wireless Mote Design WSN Applications Course on Wireless Sensor Network in CEN

WINSOC
WINSOC is a Specific Targeted Research Project co-funded by the INFSO DG of the European Commission within the RTD activities of the Thematic Priority Information Society Technologies. Goal of the project is to develop a general purpose innovative sensor network having distributed processing capabilities
the high accuracy and reliability of the whole network is achieved by introducing a suitable coupling among adjacent, low cost, sensors that gives rise to a distributed detection or estimation more accurate than that of each single sensor, without the need for sending all the data to a fusion center.

The project will address applications to small landslides detection, gas leakage detection and large scale temperature field monitoring. More Information can be found in the website www.winsoc.org

WINSOC
Participant No. 2 DUNE srl 3 Sapienza S. L 4 Universit di Roma La Sapienza 5 Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne 6 Czech Centrum for Science and Society 7 Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya

Participant Name
1 Selex Communication S. p. A Italy Italy

Country

Spain Italy Switzerland Czech Republic Spain

8 INTRACOM Telecom Solutions S.A.

9 CEAL-LETI, Commisariat per lEnergie Atomique 10 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University 11 Antrix Coorporation Ltd

Greece
France India India

WINSOC
Technological Development Objectives
Development of very simple radio coupling techniques Minimizing the system energy consumption. Development of system level simulator.

Development of sensor nodes prototypes.

Integration of the WINSOC sensor prototypes in existing infrastructures for wide area monitoring, test bed set-up and deployment in real environments. Feasibility of incorporating the proposed WINSOC concept into future wide-area wireless sensor networks regarding standardization, production, deployment and operation. Identification of a roadmap for utilization of the concept.

WINSOC-AMRITA
Exploit wireless sensor network technology to develop a spatialtemporal sensor system that can be used for improving the scientific understanding of landslide phenomena and real-time monitoring and assessment of sites with high landslide risk. The network of in-situ wireless sensors will collect and collaboratively process measurements from the field before forwarding them to an analysis station co-located at the VRC (Village Resource Center) stations. The analysis station will execute more computationally-intensive algorithms and will act as the end-user interface to the system. The end-user will be able to re-task the system through the analysis section by changing the frequency and the spatial granularity at which measurements are taken.

WINSOC Project
Landslide Scenario Kerala
Debris Flow (Urul Pottal) [ most prevalent ] Rock falls / Rock slips

Sensor Column
Pore pressure transducer Geophones Rain gauge Strain gauges Inclinometer

Phase 1 experiments completed

Landslide hazard zone selected for study Idukki / Kottayam area -

Sensor Development
Nano Sciences Research Center recently inaugurated Facilities available for developing
Amperometric sensors Micro-optical sensors MEMS based sensors Geological sensors

Wireless Mote Design

Application-driven low-cost low power design for Indian conditions

Reconfigurability of communication modes (by Software Radio approach) Generic interface for multiple sensor units

Design Architecture

Source: An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Sensor Network Applications Mark Hempstead et.al, ISCA 2005

WSN Applications
Landslide detection ( Site Visit, I phase Lab Video) Soil ecology and crop weather studies

Environment monitoring at forest gaps

Water table monitoring Structural monitoring

Thank You

Dr. P. Venkat Rengan Dr. K. P. Soman Mrs. Maneesha V. Ramesh