Ubiquitous System Software THE MOST SENSED CAMPUS

The Pervasive Infrastructure Sensor Networks project at Carnegie Mellon University (see www.ices.cmu.edu/sensornets) is looking to match CMU’s strength as having been called one of the “most wired” and later “most wireless” campuses. The goal is to be the “most sensed” campus. We’re physically deploying a network of thousands of sensor nodes across the campus. Our approach to building such a large pervasive sensor network relies heavily on the existing computer infrastructure. We’ll be able to economically create such a large network using the CMU Critter Sensor, which leverages computer resources by attaching a sensor to a host desktop computer to use its processing, disk, and networking resources. It also leverages existing system administration support. We’re developing the system in conjunction with applications researchers who are interested in physical infrastructures such as building management and energy monitoring. We’ve collected several gigabytes of sensor data since June 2003 from sensors pervasively deployed throughout one building. We’re targeting an additional building this summer, and we plan to have thousands of sensors deployed by summer 2005. For more information or to obtain data, contact Michael Bigrigg at [email protected]. MONITORING EARTHQUAKEINDUCED LOADING WITH CAMERA NETWORKS Tara C. Hutchinson and Falko Kuester, University of California, Irvine