Trinity College Dublin

EMMON is a 3-year ARTEMIS project on EMbedded MONitoring. Launched in 2008, ARTEMIS is a Joint Technology Initiative that will manage and co-ordinate EU research activities on Embedded Computing Systems through a 10-year €2.5 billion research programme. EMMON aims to support monitoring large geographical areas using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices - small communicating & cooperative nodes with sensors. In particular, EMMON investigates very large-scale WSNs, and aims to create technologies that allow effective monitoring with 10,000 to 100,000 devices, advancing WSN deployment size by one order of magnitude.

Motivation

Wireless Sensor Networks is a booming field, with applications in a wide variety of fields such as area and environmental monitoring (.e.g, border surveillance, pollution detection), structural health monitoring (e.g, bridge and road monitoring), and industrial automation (e.g., precision agriculture, factory automation). While small scale deployments are becoming common place, the power of WSNs becomes more apparent at large scales. This project investigates the paradigm and techniques required to handle very large numbers of nodes, focusing on the environmental monitoring testcase.

Partners

Our partners in the EMMON consortium include

• 5 Industrial Partners
• Critical Software S.A.
• Intesys Ltd
• Critical Software Technologies Ltd
• SESM S.c.a.r.l.
• Akting Ingeniaritza S.L.
• 1 Research Centre
• Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa
• 2 Universities
• Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Areas

DSG's participation in EMMON focuses on:

• middleware for large-scale wireless sensor networks and
• multi-layer multi-channel networking protocols.

People

Farrukh Mirza, Mélanie Bouroche and Vinny Cahill