Bob's Sensor Network Blog

Good place to find useful stuff for sensor networks

http://www.sparkfun.com

http://www.digikey.com

http://www.adafruit.com

http://www.arduino.cc

http://www.xbow.com

http://www.dustnetworks.com

Cloud Computing

future of Wireless Sensor Networks?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/live-stream-techcrunch-cloud-computing-roundtable

Cell Phones as Sensor Nodes

Learn how to hook sensors to cell phones.   Ubiquitous networking!

Big, Hairy, Audacious Work

This paper, Big Hairy, Audacious Work is how I'd like you to approach this.   What you're doing with wireless sensor networks is important in so many ways to our future.

Novel Sensor Network, Siftables

Check out this really novel user interface based on wireless sensor networks called Siftables.   If you want a quick idea of what this is about, watch the video on the siftables homepage

Prof Deborah Estrin's papers and talks

Here's the link to Prof. Deborah Estrin's talk.

Additional Material for Class

Here's the link to Prof. Dr.'s Karl and Willig's web site at der Universität Paderborn

Text for ECE 497/597 Distributed Sensor Networks

DESCRIPTION:  This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to wireless sensor networks, focusing on programming, relevant hardware aspects of sensor networks and sensors, and selected applications.

I've settled on Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks by Holger Karl and Andreas Willig

Purpose

This blog tracks developments in sensor networks.