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Some Thoughts on Sensor Network Research Krishna Kant Program Director National Science Foundation CNS/CSR Program What are the big challenges? Technology and Services Large Scale Applications Science of Sensing Design for Sustainability Technology Services What will sensors will look like in 5-10 yrs what apps will they enable? Drivers to consider New technologies (nano, FS optical, 60GHz, …) Moore’s law, smart energy harvesting/mgmt, smart multi-attribute sensing, … Miniaturization Implanted, micro sensors in blood stream. Will this fuse CS Bio? What does this imply? Other environments with micro-sensors fused in? Smart phones/PDAs: Service service provider perspective What innovative services do we want and what HW, SW and protocol features would it require? Example: What does it take to enable collaborative threat or environmental monitoring? Large Scale Applications Smart buildings, smart transportation, smart homes, … ? Smart cities What would it take to put it all together? Protocols, discovery, information assimilation, security, privacy, … Sensing for Climate change prediction adaptation Planet wide scale, heterogeneous, specialized to location, challenging environments Correlation of sensor data which isn’t even measuring the same thing Working with partial info, unreliable, intermittent, info, correlations, … Other Issues Science of Sensing Underlying theory for contextual collaborative sensing computing? Many questions How do you formalize context? How do you formalize collaborative sensing? What additional power do context collaboration provide? Impossibility complexity results? Formalism to study end to end communication and computation complexity tradeoffs? Sustainable Design Increasing pile of junk of mobile devices. Sensors will follow – perhaps much larger quantities Eco-friendly sensor designs? CISE Core Programs Algorithmic foundations Communications info foundations SW HW foundations CSR Program Scope Computer systems Architec