Raja Jurdak
CSIRO - ICT Centre
University of Queensland - ITEE
Research Approach
Our WSN research at CSIRO follows an empirical approach driven by national challenges in Australia. We have deployed many networks in various physical environments. Some of these deployments are publicly accessible through this link:CSIRO Sensor Networks Deployments Page
The pervasive computing group at CSIRO has been active in deploying sensor networks for several years. Most of our sensor networks project are commissioned by government bodies to serve a real data collection challenge. These deployments are often logistically challenging and spatially distributed in several regions of Australia. They also provide us with access to unique datasets for understanding and sustainably managing natural environments. Our current projects in the WSN area focus on environmental monitoring of rainforests and coastal ecosystems and on monitoring the quality of drinking water.
Current Projects
Environmental Monitoring
This projects aims at using sensor network to monitor the natural environment. Current deployments include rainforest regenaration monitoring in Springbrook, QLD, which will install 200 micro-climate and multimedia sensor nodes to monitor biodiversity and carbon states of the rainforest as it regenerates. To enable this deployment, we are investigating new adaptive power management strategies to maintain network operation in the absence of sufficient solar current due to heavy canopy cover. Read More
Water Quality Monitoring
This project is concerned with monitoring the quality of drinking water to Brisbane city. We have already deployed 50 water-surface nodes in lake Wivenhoe, the main water source for Brisbane, where each node measures the temperature profile along the water column. The network has recently been augmented with a terrestrial-based network for monitoring the movement of cattle in the catchment area to quantify their environmental impact and to develop strategies for reducing it. Energy is a significant constraint for the monitoring of cattle locations, which is why we are looking into energy-efficient localization strategies. Read More
Past Projects
Scalable Unified Management and Control for Large Scale Sensor Networks (SUMAC)
The objective of this study is to research and design an optimal communication software suite within an integrated network architecture, which includes a medium range wireless mesh network that serves as a bridge between geographically-spread sensor node clusters and the Internet Read More
Underwater Sensor Networks
The goal of this project is the development and deployment of cheap, easily deployable, short range underwater sensor networks in the coastal waters in Orange County, CA. As in many densely populated areas, the pollution in coastal waters is highly variant and highly dependant on weather, human activity, and other events. Read More
Octopus
Octopus is an open-source visualization and control tool for sensor networks in the TinyOS 2.x environment. Octopus provides users with a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing the live sensor network topology. It also allows the user to control the behavior of one, many, or all sensor nodes, such as the sampling period, the radio duty cycle, or triggering mode. Read More
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