Introduction
The EYES project is a three years European research
project (IST-2001-34734), on self-organizing and
collaborative energy-efficient sensor networks.
It address the convergence of distributed information
processing, wireless communications, and mobile
computing. The project runs from March 2002 till
February 2005.
The vision of ubiquitous computing requires
the development of devices and technologies, which
can be pervasive without being intrusive. The basic
components of such a smart environment will be small
nodes with sensing and wireless communications capabilities,
able to organize flexibly into a network for data
collection and delivery. Realising such a network
presents very significant challenges, especially
at the architectural and protocol/software level.
Major steps forward are required in the field of
communications protocol, data processing, and application
support.
Although sensor nodes will be equipped with a power
supply (battery) and embedded processor that makes
them autonomous and self-aware, their functionality
and capabilities will be very limited. Therefore,
collaboration between nodes is essential to deliver
smart services in a ubiquitous setting. In this
project we investigate new algorithms for networking
and distributed collaboration, and evaluate their
feasibility through experimentation. These algorithms
will be key for building self-organizing
and collaborative sensor networks that show
emergent behaviour and can operate in a challenging
environment here nodes move, fail, and energy is
a scarce resource.
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