Welcome to the 2008 edition
This course is a lecture course for MSc students at their final years and for PhD students. The course is offered during the spring term at the department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling at DTU. This course is lectured in English.
02227 aims at studying state-of-the-art research focusing on the hardware and software design of embedded computing systems.
This years version of the course focus on wireless sensor networks.
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SUN SPOT
This year we will be using the SPOT platform and development kit from SUN for the student projects.
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The recent advances in low-power embedded processors, radios, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have made possible
the development of networks of wirelessly interconnected sensors. The new computing paradigm enabled by the ad hoc wireless
sensor networks will be a key in making computation more proactive. The silicon-based wireless sensors and the ad hoc sensor
networks represent exciting new technologies with broad societal impacts and a wide range of new commercial opportunities.
As the wireless sensor technology continues to advance, one day, it will be possible to have these compact, low-cost wireless
sensors embedded throughout the environment, in homes, offices, and ultimately inside people. With the continued advances
in power management, these systems should find more numerous and more impressive applications. Until that day, there is a
rich set of research problems associated with the distributed wireless sensors that require very different solutions than
the traditional sensors and multimedia devices.
