Highlights

• Mission
• Organization
• Partners
• What is ENS?
• Imagine If...
• Informational Overview
• Annual Report 2007 (PDF)
• Annual Report 2006 (PDF)
• Annual Report 2005 (PDF)
• Annual Report 2004 (PDF)
• Annual Report 2003 (PDF)
• New CENS Building

Member Institutions

• UCLA
• USC
• UCR
• Caltech
• UCM

Organization

• Organization Chart
• Advisory Boards
• NSF
• CENS Proposal (PDF)

National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

Embedded Networked Sensing Systems promise to reveal previously unobservable phenomena widely impacting society by connecting the physical world to the Internet.

CENS, a NSF Science & Technology Center, is developing Embedded Networked Sensing Systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Like the Internet, these large-scale, distributed, systems, composed of smart sensors and actuators embedded in the physical world, will eventually infuse the entire world, but at a physical level instead of virtual.

An interdisciplinary and multi-institutional venture, CENS involves hundreds of faculty, engineers, graduate student researchers, and undergraduate students from multiple disciplines at the partner institutions of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), University of California Riverside (UCR), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of California at Merced (UCM), and California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA).

CENS is one of six National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers established in 2002, and is projected to receive $40 million in core funding from the NSF over 10 years. CENS has successfully competed for substantial supplementary funding from both the NSF and other federal agencies to support new research activities generated within the Center. A truly interdisciplinary venture, CENS has also received institutional funding to support the activities of the more than 25 UCLA faculty, 20 graduate and 65 undergraduate students from disciplines across campus, as well as faculty and students from UC Merced, UC Riverside, the University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles, the James Reserve, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.

ENS systems will form a critical infrastructure resource for society--they will monitor and collect information on such diverse subjects as plankton colonies, endangered species, soil & air contaminants, medical patients, and buildings, bridges and other man-made structures. Across this wide range of applications, Embedded Networked Sensing systems promise to reveal previously unobservable phenomena.

The researchers in CENS are investigating fundamental properties of Embedded Networked Systems, developing new enabling technologies, and exploring novel scientific and educational applications. Please review the Informational Overview to learn more about these applications, or click on Research for an in depth exploration of the many research projects that are being investigated by CENS participants.

Contact:

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
UCLA 3563 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
Tel. (310) 206-2476
Fax. (310) 206-3053

Administrative contact:

Xuan-Mai Vo, Kim Goodine

Director of Administration:

David Avery

Director of Program Development:

Jeffrey Goldman

Education Director:

Karen A. Kim

Center Director:

Deborah Estrin

Budget Analyst:

Terance Tashiro

Payroll and Financial Specialist:

Dennis Urie

Principal Investigators:

Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme