EU-funded project EMMON reaches an important milestone

The first review meeting of the EMMON project is held today, May 21, in Brussels. EMMON is an ARTEMIS project jointly funded by the Member States and the European Commission (ARTEMIS-JU). The ARTEMIS Joint Technology Initiative, which is one of the premier programs of the European Commission in the area of Embedded Computing, aims to tackle the research and structural challenges faced by European industry by defining and implementing a coherent Research Agenda for Embedded Computing Systems. EMMON is lead by Portuguese hi-tech company Critical Software and has an overall budget of around 2,5 MEuros, with approximately 300 kEuros being allocated to ISEP.

EMMON aims at conceiving a wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture for enabling embedded monitoring at an unprecedented scale, up to thousands of sensor nodes in dense deployments, covering wide geographical areas. EMMON application domains range from critical physical infrastructures monitoring and urban quality of life to precision agriculture. The first year of the EMMON project has been focused in the identification of the application/user requirements, the definition of the system architecture and the research of the hardware/software platforms. In the second year, a large scale test lab will be deployed and prototypes of the new platforms and applications will be also put forward.

In EMMON, CISTER leads the “Research on Protocols & Communication Systems” Workpackage, leveraging the CISTER-created open-ZB toolset (http://www.open-zb.net/). These open-source implementations of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee protocols, with associated methodologies to analyze, dimension, simulate and engineer WSNs with improved Quality-of-Service, already reached more than 5 thousand downloads and approximately 100 thousand visits. More info on EMMON is available at http://www.artemis-emmon.eu/.