Sensorweb Research Laboratory is developing Sensor Web systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. A Sensor Web is a coordinated observation infrastructure composed of a distributed collection of resources, e.g. sensors, platforms, models, communications infrastructure, that can collectively behave as a single, autonomous, task-able, dynamically adaptive and reconfigurable observing system that provides raw and processed data, along with associated meta-data, via a set of standards-based service-oriented interfaces. The definition of the term, "sensor", is intentionally broad and abstract to include a wide range of data and/or information providers. This definition, for example, includes models and not just physical instruments capable of sensing a phenomenon. Human reports, RADAR, satellite feeds, models, and thermometers are all examples of sensors within the context of a sensor web.
In testimony to Congress in May 2005, NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin included the following statement:
"In the future, NASA plans to develop a "sensor web" to provide timely,
on-demand data and analysis to users who can enable practical benefits for
scientific research, national policymaking, economic growth, natural
hazard mitigation, and the exploration of other planets in this solar system
and beyond."
Sensor Web related research spans multiple domains include distributed systems, wireless sensor networks, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, sensor web services and etc.
Our research work is largely motivated by the needs of real-time and situation-aware information gathering from unattended environments and effective information sharing over the Internet, hence currently focuses on inventing smart communication/cordination systems to support the NASA Sensor Web vision.
The technologies under our development can also support many other applications, such as, environmental monitoring, battlefield surveillance, networked transportation, smart homes, and intelligent factories etc. More details about our research can be found here. We have received more than 2 million dollars in grant support.
Sensorweb Research Laboratory is located at Washington State
University Vancouver campus, which is between Seattle WA
and Portland OR, surrounded by high-tech companies including Intel, HP, Sharp, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing etc.
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