SENSEI

Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future

Contact

Clemens Lombriser and Mirco Rossi

Project duration

January 2008 - December 2010

Description

In order to realize the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary
network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction.

Technology developed by SENSEI will play an essential part in transforming the existing Internet, Mobile Networks and Service Infrastructures into a Network of the Future that is capable to deal with the challenging demands of a Future Networked Society.

Objectives

The objectives of SENSEI are:

1. Develop a highly scalable architectural framework with corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy plug and play integration of a large number of globally distributed WS&AN into a global system – providing support for network and information management, security, privacy and trust and accounting.
   
2. Define an open service interface and corresponding semantic specification to unify the access to context information and actuation services offered by the system for services and applications.
   
3. Create efficient WS&AN island solutions consisting of a set of cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver targeting 5nJ/bit.
   
4. Deploy a Pan European test platform, enabling large scale experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and execution of field trials - providing a tool for long term evaluation of WS&AN integration into the Future Internet.
   

Wearlab contributions

The Wearable computing lab contributes on two topics to SENSEI:

• Sensor Information Services
  • We develop algorithms and methods to recognize activities performed by people in various situations encountered in daily life. We will work on composable context recognition algorithms that are able to adapt to dynamically changing environments with varying sensor availability and quality.
• Efficient Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
  • We develop mechanisms to allow the distributed processing of algorithms in dynamic and heterogeneous wireless sensor networks.
    

Links

SENSEI project website

Publications

2011

• Dynamic Formation of Business Networks: A Framework for ‘Quality of Information’-based Discovery of Resources
  Markus Eurich, Claudia Villalonga and Roman Boutellier
  (2011), in: International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL), 2:4(44-60)
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Shaping Sensor Node Ensembles according to their Recognition Performance within a Planning-based Context Framework
  Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Eighth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'11), 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]

2010

• A Resource Model for the Real World Internet
  Claudia Villalonga, Martin Bauer, Fernando Lopez, Vincent Huang and Martin Strohbach
  in: 5th European conference on Smart sensing and context (EuroSSC 2010), Springer-Verlag, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Modeling of Sensor Data and Context for the Real World Internet
  Claudia Villalonga, Martin Bauer, Vincent Huang, Jesus Bernat and Payam Barnaghi
  in: PerCom'10 Workshops Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]

2009

• Bringing Quality of Context into Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems
  Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen, Clemens Lombriser, Piero Zappi and Gerhard Tröster
  in: First International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon), 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]
• Experiences with Experiments in Ambient Intelligence Environments
  Piero Zappi, Clemens Lombriser, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini and Gerhard Tröster
  in: IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing, pages 171-174, 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• Modeling Service-oriented Context Processing in Dynamic Body Area Networks
  Clemens Lombriser, Raluca Marin-Perianu, Daniel Roggen, Paul Havinga and Gerhard Tröster
  (2009), in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 27:1(49-57)
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• The Real World Internet: Integrating the Physical World with the Digital World of the Network of the Future
  Mirko Presser, Payam Barnaghi, Markus Eurich and Claudia Villalonga
  (2009), in: Global IEEE Communications Magazine - Newsletter Section, 47:4(1-4)
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• The SENSEI Real World Internet Architecture
  Vlasios Tsiatsis, Alexander Gluhak, Tim Bauge, Frederic Montagut, Jesus Bernat, Martin Bauer, Claudia Villalonga, Payam Barnaghi and Srdjan Krco
  Poster at Future Internet Assembly in Stockholm, 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS ]

2008

• Distributed Activity Recognition with Fuzzy-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks
  Mihai Marin-Perianu, Clemens Lombriser, Oliver Amft, Paul Havinga and Gerhard Tröster
  in: International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), pages 296-313, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS DOI ]
• Service Discovery and Composition in Body Area Networks
  Matteo Coloberti, Clemens Lombriser, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, Renata Guarneri and Daniele Riboni
  in: 3rd International Conference on Body Area Networks (Bodynets), 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• Towards Activity Recognition in Service-Oriented Body Area Networks
  Raluca Marin-Perianu, Clemens Lombriser, Mihai Marin-Perianu, Paul Havinga and Gerhard Tröster
  in: ICT Mobile Summit, 2008
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