Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats

eScience — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:35:20 GMT

There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island -Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments. Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from the Freie Universität Berlin.

ScatterWeb .NET SDK is a new approach to working with wireless sensor networks. It hides the complexity of embedded programming and makes it easy to handle objects representing wireless sensors.

Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
In this project, we are developing a number of technologies that we hope will be instrumental in enabling this goal. We are currently using this system on Skomer Island to monitor the behaviour of the Manx Shearwater.
In close collaboration with Oxford University and the Freie Universitat Berlin, we have developed an innovative system that can autonomously monitor animals and their habitats. Using a combination of wireless sensor networks and innovative software we are able to intelligently gather data from remote locations, relaying it back for local storage and processing and allow remote reconfiguration of the network by research scientists.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit updated

eScience — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:54:37 GMT

The MSR Sense toolkit was updated to v.2a1 and is available for download

The MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit (MSR Sense) is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network. The current version contains: a reconfigurable microserver execution environment (miuSEE), a small library implementing signal processing and event detection algorithms, an extension to Excel 2003 to import, visualize and processing sensor data, and interface to SQL server to archive and retrieve data, and a microserver interaction console miuSIC) for users to configure and control microservers. All software is implemented in C# under visual studio 2005 and .NET framework 2.0. Please refer to http://research.microsoft.com/nec/msrsense for more information.

Source: Microsoft Research Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

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Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats

MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit updated