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MAY 2009
NEWSLETTER
• The research aim o the HYDROSYSproject is to provide a system inra-structure to support teams o usersin the on-site monitoring o eventsand analysis o natural resources.
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• The Oce o Equal Opportunitiesat EPF Lausanne has developeda bus geared toward promotingsciences among young people inSwitzerland.
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• Ater having progressed with hiswork or six months, the rst MICSmember to obtain a Spin Fund isabout to pass the baton to a youngbusiness woman...
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Finnish environmental researchers observing data rom a water sensor © Erick Mendez
 
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| May 2009 MICS NEWSLETTER
hYdRoSYS To MoNiToRENviRoNMENTAL PRocESSES
HYDROSYS is an EU-unded 7thFramework project ocusing onenvironmental monitoring usinghand-held devices. The project ad-dresses the need to take a closer look at ecological processes as aresponse to the continuously in-creasing pressure on our ecosys-tem.
HYDROSYS extends current prac-tice by enabling on-site data col-lection and visualization, enablingnew ways o observing ecologicalprocesses. The research aim o theproject is to provide a system inra-structure to support teams o usersin the on-site monitoring o eventsand analysis o natural resources.
EvENTdRivEN cAMPAiGNS
 The project introduces the innova-tive concept o event-driven cam-paigns using hand-held devices,potentially supported by an un-manned aerial vehicle (UAV). Event-driven campaigns provide usersthe capacity to analyze and predictenvironmental changes on-site,supporting the process o takingappropriate countermeasures toavoid environmental degradation.During these campaigns, users willbe able to setup and retrieve datarom xed and mobile sensors andsensorstations, the UAV and exter-nal sources (such as permanent sen-sor networks) in order to generatedense inormation on a small area. The whole sensor network systemwill gather and store sensor data,and process simulations based onphysical process models. Hence, ashared inormation system usingheterogeneous data sources willbe provided that supports teamso stakeholders to monitor environ-mental processes on-site, comple-menting remote monitoring andmanagement. To enrich the data sets rom a spe-cic location, additional remotelycontrolled cameras will be de-
Finnish environmental researcher observing data rom a water sensor © Erick Mendez
 
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| May 2009 MICS NEWSLETTERployed, mounted on sensorstationsand below the UAV. Users will beable to analyze the environmentusing mobile phones and hand-held computers, supported by ad-vanced user interace techniques.
ANALYSiS oF SMALL SiTES
 The project will improve monitor-ing and management or envi-ronmental scientists, institutions,service providers, engineeringcompanies and municipalitiesthrough its strong integration o hand-helds and sensor networks. The project will progress well be-yond the current state-o-the-art,by dealing with short-term eventsand detailed analysis o small sites. The analysis o such events is hardlysupported by current methods, buthas a large impact on environmen-tal degradation. Furthermore, inor-mation is made available to citizensby providing mechanisms to accesstop-level environmental data.Within the project, inter-disciplin-ary research will be perormed todevelop user-centered solutions.When the data is integrated withanalytical tools in a shared inor-mation space it will also aid a widerange o managers and plannerspursuing more environmentallysensitive solutions to engineeringproblems. The HYDROSYS consortium closelycooperates with the SwissEx initia-tive, sponsored through the MICScompetence center. HYDROSYSperectly extends the MICS re-search agenda by oering newresearch directions in the eld o mobile computing. Though beinga sel-contained project, the HY-DROSYS goals thus can be seen asa building block rom which MICSmembers can benet. Through this cooperation, HYDRO-SYS gains access to experience andsotware in the eld o sensor tech-nology, data acquisition and man-agement, next to environmentaldata. On the other hand, HYDROSYSoers state o the art mobile tech-nology, using the latest in interac-tive 3D visualization techniques onmobile devices.
USiNG MicS dEvELoPMENTS
 The large number o end-usersinvolved through the coopera-tion strengthens the developmentbeing undertaken in the project.Given the conditions o the deploy-ment, HYDROSYS develops wirelessnetworking inrastructure to accessremote sensors that can be reusedby MICS eorts in the uture. Spe-cically, HYDROSYS will make useo the MICS wireless sensor net-work developments, extending theramework with some modules thatare specically needed or the aimso the HYDROSYS project, includ-ing real-time sensor data process-ing, specic simulation unctional-ity, and data access or hand-helddevices.HYDROSYS greatly benets romthe sensor technology available,deploying among others the Sen-sorScope sensing technology toresearch among others permarostand water quality monitoring. HY-DROSYS aims at providing an open-source inrastructure that can beused by a wider public.
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