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| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/G070687/1 |
| Title: |
FRESNEL: FedeRatEd Secure sensor NEtwork Laboratory |
| Principal Investigator: |
Dr I Brown |
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| Researcher Co-investigator: |
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| Project Partner: |
| British Telecommunications Plc |
Microsoft Research Ltd |
Sensors and Instrumentation KTN |
| Symbian Software Ltd |
TRW Conekt |
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| Department: |
Computing Laboratory |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
10 January 2010 |
Ends: |
09 January 2013 |
Value (£): |
446,934
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| ICT Networks and Distributed Systems |
Mobile Computing |
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| Panel History: |
| Panel Date | Panel Name | Outcome |
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02 Jun 2009
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ICT Prioritisation Panel (June 09)
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Announced
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Summary |
Wireless sensor networks are more and more seen as a solution to large-scale tracking and monitoring applications. The deployment and management of these networks, however, is handled by a central controlling entity and the sensor network is often dedicated to a single application. We argue that this is due to the fact that we do not yet have the means to deal with a secure multi-purpose federated sensor network, running different applications in parallel and able to reconfigure dynamically to run others.
The communication paradigms which have been usually devised for small and single owner sensor networks simply do not have the right scalability, security, reconfigurability characteristics required for this environment.
With FRESNEL we aim to build a large scale federated sensor network framework with multiple applications sharing the same resources. We want to guarantee a reliable intra-application communication as well as a scalable and distributed management infrastructure. Orthogonally, privacy and application security should also be maintained.
We evaluate our proposal though a large scale federation of sensor networks over the Cambridge campus. The sensors monitor different aspects (temperature, pollution, movement, etc) and the network will be running various applications belonging to different authorities in the city.
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| Final Report Summary |
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No final report summary is available for this grant.
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| Further Information: |
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.ox.ac.uk |
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