The Third RUNES Project Meeting was hosted jointly by Ericsson AB and SICS in Kista near Stockholm during 7-9 June 2005. The meeting participants presented the results of their recent work and discussed technical and conceptual issues. Some of the meeting's hightlights are given below.
Meeting with Ericsson Response Unit
On the first day Ericsson Response held a meeting with the RUNES partners involved in the design of the disaster management scenario. The objective of Ericsson Response is to get the communications infrastructure up and running to allow the relief organizations to work more efficiently following a disaster. The members of the unit shared their experiences in rebuilding the mobile-phone networks destroyed by wars or natural disasters. Some lessons learnt following the Asian tsunami we discussed during the meeting. This is particularly relevant to the RUNES scenario studying the deployment of networked embedded systems in road tunnels following a fire.
E-Sensors Seminar
Each work package leader of RUNES had the opportunity to report on the current status of work during a seminar which was attended by people from various organisations including Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo and St. Jude Medical Inc. The T-Engine Consortium which is a platform for embedded systems was also represented in the meeting. The T-Engine activity derives from Tron, The Real-time Operating-system Nucleus, an open OS environment originally developed at the University of Tokyo.
Animated Disaster Response Scenario
Ericsson produced a video that visualises the main scenario currently studied in RUNES project. This concerns a fire in a road tunnel and the deployment of networked embedded systems (fixed and wireless) by the emergency services. It is anticipated that such tools will be valuable in studying cognitive and ergonomic constraints that affect usability in wireless sensor/actuator environments. Further, the videos can be used to communicate the concepts developed in the project to wide audiences.
Lund Robot
RUNES partner Lund Institute of Technology presented a robot that is equiped with Telos motes and can be controlled using ZigBee technology.
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Robot by Lund Institute of Technology.
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CRC Presentation
Dr Li Li, Research Engineer at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada gave a presentation entitled Communication Challenges for Building High Density Sensor Networks. The Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Network Systems group at CRC conducts R&D for mobile ad hoc and sensor network systems and technologies for civilian, industrial and military applications. The group focuses on optimising layout, configuration, functionality and performance of such systems. RUNES partners agreed at the meeting that researchers of CRC are welcome to follow the developments of WP4 and contribute where necessary.
Archipelago Trip
The hosts of the meeting organised a boat trip to the Swedish Archipelago for all RUNES partners and guests.
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On board during the trip in the Swedish Archipelago.
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