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SUMMARY:Moving WSN Programming Abstractions into the Real World - Luca Mot
 tola (Bruno Kessler Foundation\, Italy)
DTSTART:20080805T130000Z
DTEND:20080805T140000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:In a recent report\, market research firm ONWorld predicts tha
 t the global market for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will grow tenfold 
 by 2011. At the same time\, ONWorld also identifies ease of programming as
  the major barrier to a widespread adoption of WSNs. In this talk\, we pre
 sent our research on programming abstractions for WSNs and its application
  in two novel\, real-world scenarios: monitoring the structural integrity 
 of heritage buildings and adaptive lighting in road tunnels. In the former
  setting\, WSN nodes are employed to gather vibration\, deformation\, temp
 erature\, and humidity data and to make them available to structural engin
 eers to assess the building's conditions. The latter application aims at p
 erforming fine-grained control of the light intensity in road tunnels to r
 educe maintenance costs and improve safety. We are building both systems o
 n top of the TeenyLIME middleware we developed\, which greatly simplifies 
 the programming task by providing higher-level abstractions to WSN develop
 ers. We report on our experiences in designing\, implementing\, and testin
 g these systems\, and present early performance results.\n\nBio: Luca Mott
 ola holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Ital
 y) obtained in 2008 with the thesis "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks:
  from Physical to Logical Neighborhoods''. He is now a post-doctoral resea
 rcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento (Italy)\, and he will join
  the Swedish Institute of Computer Science\n(SICS) next year. Along with G
 .P. Picco\, in 2007 he received the Best Demo Award at the Int. Conf. on S
 ensor Systems (SenSys). His research interests include programming abstrac
 tions\, distributed computing\, routing in sensor networks\, and formal ve
 rification of distributed software architectures. More information at lmot
 tola.googlepages.com.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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