Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

BBN Technologies, Harvard University, and the City of Cambridge are collaborating on a wireless sensor network that spans, Cambridge, MA, but will provide access for educational institutions, from kindergartens to graduate schools, all across the U.S.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the network will consist of 100 streetlight-mounted sensor nodes, each equipped with a professional meteorological sensor package for environmental monitoring. The sensors will detect weather measurements, such as wind speed, direction, temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, and rainfall. Radios in the nodes will allow them to communicate across a mesh-network. Through a gateway to the Internet, all data collected will be freely available to academic researchers throughout the U. S. The network will also be an open resource for the sensor network community, giving them the opportunity to test new algorithms for distributed sensor data processing and wireless networking in a real-world environment.

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