Associated Projects
During the last years we have gained
considerable experience in relevant areas for Smart
Surroundings through different projects. We provide a brief
summary and pointers to some of these projects.
EYES
The University of Twente is leading one of the first EC projects
on wireless sensor networks. The project develops the
architecture and the technology needed for building
self-organizing and collaborative sensor networks using
reconfigurable smart sensor nodes, which are self-aware,
self-reconfigurable and autonomous.
CONSENSUS
CONSENSUS is a NWO funded research project
in which the Universities of Twente and Delft cooperate in
the field of sensor networks. The goal of the CONSENSUS
project is to investigate and develop collaboration
algorithms that enable the creation of a new generation of
autonomous and self-organizing sensors that can effectively
network together to provide enriched context information to
ubiquitous computing applications used by (mobile) users.
Smart-Its
Lancaster University and
University of Karlsruhe lead the EC project Smart-Its in the
Disappearing Computer initiative. The project has developed
an embedded device platform for smart objects, integrating
wireless radio, rich physical I/O and autonomous processing.
The platform has become adopted by many groups across
Europe.
The goal of the @HA
research project is to integrate home appliances into one
coherent distributed architecture. The project is funded by
NWO and carried out by the University of Twente with support
of Philips research.
The University of Twente
takes part in this European Coordination Action (CA). The
main objective of the CA is to foster a well-coordinated
research community in Europe that can efficiently tackle
research bottlenecks, investigate the impact of the
technology on users and manufacturers, on education and
teaching, and on society at large.
The Philips HomeLab is a unique research facility for the
study of ambient intelligence. It is both a home and a
laboratory, in which people can live for weeks at a time,
and in which the seamless integration of intelligent
electronics into people’s environments can be researched.
CoBis is an IST european
project in which the Univerities of Karlsruhe, Lancaster and
Twente take part. The CoBis project will develop a radically
new approach to business processes involving physical
entities to create Collaborative Business Items.
Featherlight is an STW
project carried out at the University of Twente in
collaboration with Philips Research, TNO Industrial Design,
Nedap N.V. and Thales Research and Technology. In this
project we investigate new feather-light distributed
mechanisms for networking and distributed collaboration, and
evaluate their feasibility through experimentation. These
mechanisms can operate in a challenging environment of
self-organizing collaborative ambient systems where nodes
move, fail, and energy
is a scarce resource.
E-Sense
E-Sense is a European project where the University of Twente takes part. The main objective of the project is to contribute to the evolution and definition of the future
Ambient Intelligent Mobile Systems beyond 3G by integrating ubiquitous Wireless Sensor
Networks in B3G mobile systems. WSN will capture the ambient intelligence surrounding mobile
users. Capturing, classifying, filtering and sensing situation and context through phenomena and
signals from the physical environment will support and significantly enhance and enrich personal,
family and community focused mobile applications and services as well as enhance wireless
communication systems.
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