Leaflet of the WASP project - Hitech Projects

Ambient Intelligence: Ubiquitous sensing
to improve our lives at home and on
the move
Introduction
The infrastructure for ambient intelligence
envisaged by researchers and industry in
Europe, will consist of a myriad of wireless
sensors working in collaboration.
The academic world is currently hard at work
investigating the technology for Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSN). However, industry
is reluctant to use the results derived from
academic research, principally because there is
a mismatch between research at the application
level and the node and network level.
WASP
Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations
Software technology, Moving objects, Wireless Sensor Networks,
Energy-optimization, Security, Quality of Service guarantees,
Cross-layer optimization, SME involvement.
The WASP project aims to rectify this
imbalance by covering every link in the chain,
from basic hardware, sensors, processors and
communication, right through to the packaging
and organization of the nodes, the information
distribution, and a selection of applications.The
main emphasis in the project lies in the selforganization
and the services which connect the
application to the sensor network.The nodes
themselves also need research because there is a
strong link between the flexibility required and
the hardware design.The applications need to be
researched, because the properties of the services
required will influence the configuration of
both sensor network and application for optimum
efficiency and functionality. Many of the
design decisions inherent to the development
cannot be handled in isolation as they depend on
the hardware costs involved in making a sensor
and the market size for sensors of a given type.
The general goal of the project is the provision
of a complete system view for building large
populations of collaborating objects.
The provision of a European alternative to the
WSNs originating in the US will have a positive
impact on European research and industry.
The WASP results will be well suited for
adoption by SMEs.The consortium will define
an active programme to approach the
appropriate SMEs and to familiarize them
with the WASP results.
General project overview:
WASP
Contract number:
IST-034963
Full name:
Wirelessly Accessible
Sensor Populations
Type of project:
Integrated Project
Project participants:
• Philips Research
Eindhoven
(The Netherlands)
• CEFRIEL (Italy)
• IMEC-NL
(The Netherlands)
• CSEM (Switzerland)
• TU Eindhoven
(The Netherlands)
• European Microsoft
Innovation Center
(Germany)
• Health Telematic
Network (Italy)
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
(Germany)
• ASG veehouderij
(The Netherlands)
• Imperial College
(United Kingdom)
• ST microelectronics
(Italy)
• INRIA (France)
• EPFL (Switzerland)
• Philips Research
Aachen (Germany)
• Centro Ricerche Fiat
(Italy)
• TU Kaiserslautern
(Germany)
• RWTH Aachen
(Germany)
• SAP (France)
• University of
Paderborn (Germany)
Contact person:
First name: Peter
Last name: van der Stok
Enterprise:
Philips Research
Address:
High Tech Campus 31
5656 AE Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 40 2742649
Fax: +31 40 2744004
E-mail: peter.van.der.stok
@philips.com
Project website:
www.wasp-project.org/

Assisted road transport lowers the risk of accidents,
reduces pollution and fuel consumption and
improves the flow of traffic on our roads.
Three business areas, selected for their societal
relevance and technical differences, will validate
the results of the project.
Care of the elderly will benefit from reduced
medical costs and increased quality of life of the
elderly.
Objectives
The aims of the WASP project are:
The development of an autonomous and
intelligent infrastructure, which incorporates
a wireless sensor network.
The development of a cost-efficient infrastructure
that encourages application driven
optimisation of the network composed of
generic nodes.
The deployment of the infrastructure developed
within a prototype, to validate both the
sensor network design and the genericity of
offered design.
WASP
EUProjects
Herd health control reduces the risk of diseases,
which pose a threat to the European livestock
industry.
Expected Results
A consistent chain of software components
to support (dynamic) energy optimization,
security, Quality of Service guarantees, and the
specification of trade-off preferences by the
application.
Sets of cross-layer optimized software stacks
with each set optimized for a given set of
application characteristics.
A set of benchmarks and measurements to
compare energy efficiency and code efficiency
between existing software and new alternatives.
Design rules for the configurable sensor nodes,
and their applications and optimization
strategies.
A prototype implementation in two of the
three chosen business areas.
http://www.wasp-project.org/
Partners and their roles
• Philips Research Eindhoven:
Integration and consistency
• CEFRIEL: Communication models
• IMEC-NL:Adaptable node
• CSEM:Wireless routing and optimization
• TU Eindhoven: Computational and
service models
• European Microsoft Innovation Center:
Development environment
• Health Telematic Network: Home care
providers
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Sensor adaptation
• ASG Veehouderij: Herd control application
• Imperial College: Chronic disease and
elderly care
• ST Microelectronics: Low power design
• INRIA:Algorithms and flexible software
environment
• EPFL: Large network for validation
• Philips Research Aachen:WSN security,
elderly care
• Centro Ricerche Fiat: Road transport
application
• TU Kaiserslautern:Timeliness of WSN and
applications
• RWTH Aachen: Data transport over network
• SAP: Secure business access to WSN
• University of Paderborn: Coordination of
execution environment & protocol
optimization.
This project is part of the portfolio of the
Embedded Systems Unit – G3
Directorate General Information Society
For more information please check:
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/embedded
January 2007