The largest WSN test-bed in Europe was put together in ISEP

Last December 7, CISTER hosted the second review meeting of the EMMON European Project. Within this review meeting, the EMMON consortium presented a live demonstration of the integrated system prototype, a monitoring application encompassing all system components, ranging from hardware, communication architecture, middleware and command and control GUI.

ISEP hosted the project's communication test lab, and the integrated Demonstrator of the EMMON architecture (coined "DEMMON"), in recognition of CISTER’s international visibility on real-time embedded systems and wireless sensor networks technologies, and on the role CISTER has on the project, leading the “Research on Protocols & Communication Systems” workpackage. In the demonstrator, over 300 wireless sensor nodes (TelosB) and other devices intercommunicate and cooperate to achieve a common objective: changing our perception of physical phenomena by leveraging the measurement scale and density. This is the largest WSN test-bed in Europe so far, which is per se a major highlight.

EMMON is a European project funded by the ARTEMIS program that aims at large-scale and dense embedded monitoring using wireless sensor networks. The EMMON architecture will enable to monitor different physical properties (e.g. temperature, humidity, pressure) of specific geographical areas at unprecedented scale and density, through the use of tiny low-cost low-power sensor nodes. In order to address scenarios such as real-time pollution/noise maps of a city, or critical infrastructures monitoring (such as bridges, tunnels or the power grid), EMMON adopts a hierarchical network architecture based on several cutting-edge and worldwide used technologies and methods developed at CISTER. This guarantees that scalability and quality-of-service requirements are met.

More details on the EMMON project can be found at http://www.artemis-emmon.eu.