Habitat monitoring: application driver for wireless communications technology
SIGCOMM LA '01 Workshop on Data communication in Latin America and the Caribbean
System architecture directions for networked sensors
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PSFQ: a reliable transport protocol for wireless sensor networks
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
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Taming the underlying challenges of reliable multihop routing in sensor networks
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Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
The flooding time synchronization protocol
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
The dynamic behavior of a data dissemination protocol for network programming at scale
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
An analysis of a large scale habitat monitoring application
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Marionette: using RPC for interactive development and debugging of wireless embedded networks
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Wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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Fidelity and yield in a volcano monitoring sensor network
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A Lightweight Sensor Network Management System Design
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Brimon: a sensor network system for railway bridge monitoring
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TreeMAC: Localized TDMA MAC protocol for real-time high-data-rate sensor networks
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression on realtime sensor networks
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High quality sensor placement for SHM systems: refocusing on application demands
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
A uniform airdrop deployment method for large-scale wireless sensor networks
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Fusion-based volcanic earthquake detection and timing in wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Kyun queue: a sensor network system to monitor road traffic queues
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems
Volcanic earthquake timing using wireless sensor networks
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Achieving energy-synchronized communication in energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section ESFH'12, ESTIMedia'11 and Regular Papers
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This paper presents the design and deployment experience of an air-dropped wireless sensor network for volcano hazard monitoring. The deployment of five stations into the rugged crater of Mount St. Helens only took one hour with a helicopter. The stations communicate with each other through an amplified 802.15.4 radio and establish a self-forming and self-healing multi-hop wireless network. The distance between stations is up to 2 km. Each sensor station collects and delivers real-time continuous seismic, infrasonic, lightning, GPS raw data to a gateway. The main contribution of this paper is the design and evaluation of a robust sensor network to replace data loggers and provide real-time long-term volcano monitoring. The system supports UTC-time synchronized data acquisition with 1ms accuracy, and is online configurable. It has been tested in the lab environment, the outdoor campus and the volcano crater. Despite the heavy rain, snow, and ice as well as gusts exceeding 120 miles per hour, the sensor network has achieved a remarkable packet delivery ratio above 99% with an overall system uptime of about 93.8% over the 1.5 months evaluation period after deployment. Our initial deployment experiences with the system have alleviated the doubts of domain scientists and prove to them that a low-cost sensor network system can support real-time monitoring in extremely harsh environments.