lengoanhcat
Joined: 02 Dec 2005
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 22 Mar 2008 5:20 fyp related to wireless sensor networks |
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Hey guys, I am opening this topic because I really interest in car parking systems and wireless sensor networks. Beside that, this topic is chosen for my FYP and I keenly want to produce some practical results.
After two days of surfing internet and collecting materials, I find out that there are a few research centers who also conducts similar research projects
Research Centers
SmartPark (http://smartpark.epfl.ch/index.html) from School of Computer and Communications Science in EPFL (http://ic.epfl.ch/)
Commerical Company
Vehicle Sense (http://www.vehiclesense.com/website/index.html) - a car parking system service company. However, I do not think their systems are absolute autonomous and mobile.
StreetLine (http://www.streetlinenetworks.com/site/solutions_traffic-monitoring-management.html)
Vehicle Sense and Streetline products are quite similar in design strategy. They use a sensor equipped on parking spaces which transfer information to a base for communicating to its sever by radio wave. To me, these systems are not sophisticated.
What I want to do
I want to design a system which uses wireless adhoc sensor network to manage parking cars in crowded city centers. Therefore, I prefer the direction of SmartPark Projects.
However, one big problem got I . What suitable part I could handle for an undergraduate FYP research. It is important to me because I do not want to be in a situation that I propose the project but I won't be able to finish it. Up to now, I think I have two subtopics inside the big project:
Hardware Design
Designing a hardware design capable of sensing a car and communicating with other sensors through wireless networks. I have found projects similar to this in some ways, for example
SmartDust Project (http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/index.html)
GNOMES
http://www.ece.rice.edu/~cavallar/cmclab/
DSYS25z sensor
http://www.cs.ucc.ie/misl/research/carparking.php
Software Design
In this part, there are very general ideas in my mind. Maybe, I can help to develop some car parking management algorithm or an effective strategy for using limited enery sources for mobile sensors.
If you have any ideas, recommendations, references, anything relating to this project, please post this in this topic. All your posts will help me a lot
If you guys have no ideas about that topic, you can say "hi", "good luck", etc. At least, you and I have one more friend.
Cat Le
Best Regards
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