“Wireless Sensors for All”
Low-cost, Open solutions for environmental monitoring
Environmental Monitoring
Using a cloud representation where redder clouds represent higher pollution, this air pollution map reveals that the Nothern Suburb of Cape Town is more polluted than the Southern suburb due to the presence of an oil refinery in the area.
Capacity Building
Capacity building may help bridge the scientific divide by spearheading wireless sensor networking expertise in the regions of the developing world where it is the most needed to combat natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano...
Deployments
Sensor Networks are built around the “embedding and networking” paradigm where sensor devices are embedded in the environment and networked to provide different services to different users.
What are WSNs
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants., and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location.
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Upcoming Events
What: Workshop on Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks for Weather Monitoring in East Africa
Where: University of Nairobi, Kenya
When: July 6-8, 2011
For who: University students and researchers. Some fellowships are available for researchers from East Africa.
More info here.
Our Latest Project
Our latest project has been an air-pollution monitoring system deployed in Cape Town, South Africa.