Title: Wireless sensing systems for acoustic and seismic monitoring: Hands on tutorial

Time and Date: 1PM-5:30PM on April 24, 2006

Venue: Room 32-G451, The Stata Center, MIT, USA (In conjunction with IPSN 2007)

Directions to the building: http://www.csail.mit.edu/contact/contact.html - directions (floor plan of the building)

Map of the campus: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=32

Registration: Same web site as that for the IPSN 2007

Presentation slides: seismic powerpoint acoustic powerpoint

Abstract:

In a half-day tutorial, we will give hands-on exploration for wireless acoustic and seismic sensing systems. Both systems are based on a common software and hardware platform, and share robustness and scalability features.  Both the systems use battery powered sensor nodes based on an XScale processor, running Linux, 802.11b radios, and software written in EmStar.

    For each system we will describe the key components of the system in detail, set up the array, demonstrate the use of the system, run the self-configuration software, delve into the details of the sampling and system software, and analyze data coming from the system; we will also write some simple programs to modify the nodes behavior.

Contact Persons:

For acoustic: Lewis Girod (girod AT nms.lcs.mit.edu)

Bio:

Lewis Girod received a B.S. in Mathematics and M.Eng. in Computer Science from MIT in 1995.  After working at MIT/LCS for three years in the area of Internet naming infrastructure, he joined Deborah Estrin's group as a Ph.D. student in 1998.  He worked full-time at Sensoria Corporation from 2000-2003 on several DARPA-funded projects, before returning to complete his Ph.D. at UCLA in 2005.  Since February 2006 he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with Hari Balakrishnan on the WaveScope project.    

For seismic: Vinayak Naik (naik AT cens.ucla.edu)

Bio:

Vinayak Naik received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ohio State University in 2006 and Bachelor of Engineering from VJTI, India in 1999. Since 2006, he is a member of the research staff in Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA. He is working on EmStar and MASE (Middle America Subduction Experiment) projects under the guidance of Prof. Deborah Estrin. His research focuses on fault-tolerant and secure distributed systems for large-scale wireless networks of embedded devices.

Software:

• For Intel x86 architecture: We are releasing an Ubuntu ISO image ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386-raven-18.iso, which primarily contains Emstar source, installed Emstar binaries, and Emstar binaries for stargate release 7.2 (ARM architecture). One can use the ISO image in multiple ways:
1. burn an ISO CD and use the CD to boot his PC to get pre-installed Emstar (advantage: no installtion on PC reuired; disadvantage: executing from CD could be slow if you have less RAM in the PC)
2. burn an ISO CD and use the CD to install Ubuntu with pre-installed Emstar on his PC (advantage: Emstar binaries run at the native speed on your PC; disadvantage: needs to install Ubuntu on your PC)
3. install Ubuntu along with Emstar in a emulator such as Paralles Desktop for Mac OS X, VMWare and Qemu for Windows and Linux (advantage: Emstar binaries execute at a better speed than that of using option 1 of CD; disadvantage: needs to install Ubuntu in your choice of emulator/simulator)
• For stargate architecture: We are releasing bootloader, kernel, and root file-system containing all of the seismic software (Disruption Tolerant Shell, ETX-based routing, File Mover, etc) as part of the pre-installed OS image for the stargate. One can load this image on their stargate using zmodem or TFTP.

    For more information about the use of the software, please read siesmic presentation slides posted above on this page.

Team Members:

Martin Lukac

Travis Collier

Mike Allen

Andreas M. Ali

Igor Stubailo

Fees: $70 for students and $90 for others (up to April 13th), $100 for students and $150 for others (after April 13th)