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Vol: 54(68) No: 3 / September 2009 Review of the Characteristics and Applications of Intelligent Sensor Networks T.I. Nagy Budapest Tech, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Hungary, phone: (+36) 666-55-74, e-mail: nagy.tibor@nik.bmf.hu, web: www.nik.bmf.hu/nagyt J. Tick Budapest Tech, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Hungary, e-mail: tick@bmf.hu Keywords: intelligent sensor networks, military reconnaissance Abstract Both military and civil life requires the automation of certain sensing and measuring activities and tasks. These measuring activities are such tasks whose execution is too complex, too time-consuming or too dangerous for humans. In civil life the intelligent sensor network technology is used for controlling the heating and electrical networks of buildings, and the management of production processes or production phases at a plant, while in the military sector they are used for military intelligence tasks in operation areas or within buildings. The various usages of such systems set up distinctive requirements against the structure and building blocks of such networks as well as against the connections realizing the network. The devices must sense and measure the different environmental and other features, the short-time storage of the measured data and their forwarding to the data-analyzing system. One of the fundamental application questions is which features can be sensed and measured by a device; furthermore, how accurately and fast these sensor networks can execute the tasks. Due to security and encryption reasons, primarily in military use, further significant questions are the communication protocols, like the energy support. In case of military intelligence tasks, the method of placement and location, as well as the related location of the devices are of special importance. As the first step in the research, by the review of the literature this paper intends to give answers to the raised questions by analyzing the features of the devices available on the market, and introducing the most important existing systems. References [1] Multi-Stage Energy Transfer System for Near Perpetual Sensor Networks,” www.cs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/teaching/cs294-11-f05/slides/day6c.ppt. [2] “eCos overview”, “eCos user guide”, http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/ ecos-overview.html. [3] L. Bai, R.Dick, P. Dinda, “Archetype-Based Design: Sensor Network Programming for Application Experts, Not Just Programming Experts,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April, 2009. [4] P. Völgyesi, “Szenzorhálózatok. A TinyOS operációs rendszer és a Berkeley MOTE platform bemutatása,” http://volgy.com/pubs/ BIR_SensorNetworks.pdf. [5] B. Hamann, “Visualization of Great Duck Island Sensor Network Data,” http://www.citris-uc.org/research/projects/visualization_of _great_duck_island_sensor_network_data. [6] S. Kim at al., “Health Monitorning of Civil Infrastructures Using Wireless Sensor Networks”, IPSN’07, April 25-26, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ ~binetude/work/ipsn07_ggb.pdf. [7] Bill Garmer, “REMBASS Info”, http://www.thenostromo.com/ archives/mp-gg/1977-07/msg00051.html. [8] W. T. Beckman, “Intelligence Scouts: REMBASS and Battlefield Surveillance”. [9] “REMBASS – Archived 4/99“, Forecast International, 1998. [10] “REMBASS II, AN/GSR-8(V)”, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., 2004. [11] L. Ványa, “Az elektronikai hadviselés eszközeinek, rendszereinek és vezetésének korszerűsítése az új kihívások tükrében, különös tekintettel az elektronikai ellentevékenységre,” Zrínyi Miklós Nemzetvédelmi Egyetem, Budapest, 2001. [12] “WolfPack, “Unattended Ground Sensors in the RF Domain,“ http://www.baesystems.com/BAEProd/groups/public/documents/bba_publication/bae_pdf_eis_wolfpack.pdf. [13] T. I. Nagy, J. Tick, “Intelligent Sensor Networks in the Military and Civil Sectors”, in Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence (SACI 2009), Timisoara, Romania, 2009, pp. 471–474. |