Tutorial: Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (half-day)
Leaders: John McEachen, Murali Tummala, Weilian Su, and Edoardo
-------------Biagioni

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have seen increasingly widespread use in recent years due to significant technological advancements in a confluence of areas including radio transceivers, MEMS, microprocessors and flash memory. This tutorial will explore a diverse range of WSN applications to introduce the attendee to potential research areas of common interest.

The tutorial is intended to compliment the Wireless Sensor Network minitrack - within the Software Technology track - by exposing the attendee to general WSN issues which may be addressed in more detail in the main conference sessions. Applications covered will include: military applications such as area containment, intelligence collection and unit protection; environmental monitoring such as forest fire detection, agricultural monitoring, climate control and sewage monitoring; infrastructure monitoring such as structural weakness identification, wind and earthquake warning systems; and health monitoring ranging from physiological data collection to outbreak isolation. All topics will address issues such deployment, topology construction and security.

John McEachen (mceachen@nps.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He received the PhD and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University, the M.E.E.E. degree from the University of Virginia and the B.S.E.E. from the University of Notre Dame.

Murali Tummala (mtummala@nps.edu)
Weilian Su (weilian@nps.edu)
Edoardo Biagioni (esb@hawaii.edu)