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Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Data Center Applications

whitepaper Many of the adverse environmental conditions that can cause equipment to fail remain invisible to the data center staff responsible for ensuring continuous availability of business-critical resources.

Tags: high availability

[14 May 2008]

Adaptive Correctness Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Hierarchical Distributed Run-Time Invariant Checking

whitepaper This paper presents a hierarchical approach for detecting faults in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) after they have been deployed. It presents a framework, Hierarchical SEnsor Network Debugging (H- SEND), for lightweight checking of invariants.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 Apr 2008]

LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks

whitepaper In multihop wireless systems, such as ad-hoc and sensor networks, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. LITEWORP is particularly suitable for resource-constrained...

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering

whitepaper Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection sensor. Correlation and fusion of intrusion alerts to provide effective Situation Awareness of cyber-attacks has become an active area of research.

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Sensor Networks Research Review

whitepaper This webcast provides a review of a research on sensor networks.

Tags: anti-hacking, sensor, sensor networks

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Tasking of Self-Organizing Surveillance Mobile Sensor Networks

whitepaper Many critical applications of surveillance sensor networks involve finding hotspots. Mobile sensor platforms can measure data fields along their trajectories. They were interested in using feedback from individual sensor platforms, communicated to...

Tags: anti-hacking, search, guide, sensor

[10 Apr 2008]

Cooperative Detection and Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper This paper defines information theoretic problems in the cooperative detection of targets by a distributed wireless sensor network, and in the cooperative transmission of the results to a remote user.

Tags: wireless lan, detection, transmission, cooperative

[10 Apr 2008]

Commercial Vehicle Radiological System Module of an Integrated Safety and Enforcement System for the 21st Century With Homeland Security Benefits

whitepaper The Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is currently prototype testing state-of-the-art sensor technologies associated with detection of radiological materials in-commerce.

Tags: network security, testing, detection, commerce

[10 Apr 2008]

Physical Registration: Configuring Electronic Directories Using Handheld Devices

whitepaper Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped, wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. An important problem in pervasive computing is how to create and maintain...

Tags: portable computers, objects, physical, pervasive

[10 Apr 2008]

AMPTRAC Connectivity Management System

whitepaper In basic terms, the system monitors the patch cord connection between two patch panels or between a patch panel and network switch for each cable drop in the network by real-time monitoring of the continuity of the ninth conductor pin to the...

Tags: cable, intelligent, patch, structured

[10 Apr 2008]

Complex Event Processing With DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Coral8: High-Speed XML Event Processing Requires a "Pure" Approach

whitepaper CEP engines are being used to drive a new breed of applications, such as low-latency financial market data analysis for algorithmic trading and trade compliance monitoring, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and sensor network analysis for...

Tags: xml

[09 Apr 2008]

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line

News The in-vehicle sensor tracks and analyses driving styles and then gives drivers feedback about their motoring and areas that need improvement. The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road.

Tags: road, mod, army

[04 Apr 2008]

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

whitepaper Enabled by new types of information, such as digitization of images and video, and sensor information from RFID tags, the amount of digital information within an organization is mushrooming. A variety of factors are converging to create an...

Tags: application servers

[28 Mar 2008]

Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war

Photo Combined with a high-resolution daylight sensor, Staws provides a 24-hour all-weather surveillance and target acquisition capability. Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but...

Tags: soldier, army, mod, credit

[26 Mar 2008]

A 10000 Fps CMOS Sensor With Massively Parallel Image Processing

whitepaper A high speed analog VLSI image acquisition and pre-processing system has been designed and fabricated in a 0.35 µm standard CMOS process. The chip features a massively parallel architecture enabling the computation of programmable low-level image...

Tags: parallel processing

[19 Mar 2008]

Barclays data centres get green with HP

Barclays data centres get green with HP

News Heyworth said: "Each sensor comes back into a central console and if a server is working harder in one area than in another, this sensor will tell the central console: 'Oi, I'm working a little bit harder, please cool me down a little bit more'.

Tags: cooling, environment, datacentre, energy

[13 Mar 2008]

Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions With a Wireless Sensor Network

whitepaper This paper describes the experiences using a wireless sensor network to monitor volcanic eruptions with low-frequency acoustic sensors. The paper developed a wireless sensor array and deployed it in July 2004 at Volcan Tungurahua, an active volcano...

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 Mar 2008]

The Design of HLS Voltage Network Monitoring System Based on AD7756

whitepaper Each site module includes 2 ADCs, a voltage reference, a temperature sensor and a relative DSP. The features of a voltage/energy measuring IC AD7756 are introduced in this paper. By using this IC, the paper designed a voltage network monitoring...

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 Mar 2008]

MOTE-VIEW: A Sensor Network Monitoring and Management Tool

whitepaper This paper presents a scalable software framework for managing, monitoring, and visualizing sensor network deployments called MOTE-VIEW. This paper, conducts a comprehensive review of typical problems encountered when deploying and administering...

Tags: monitoring systems

[03 Mar 2008]

NanoMon: A Flexible Sensor Network Monitoring Software

whitepaper This paper presents a sensor network monitoring software, named NanoMon, which has a highly flexible architecture and is able to support various user requirements arising in their individual wireless sensor network applications in an adaptive...

Tags: monitoring systems

[03 Mar 2008]

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