CENS Technical Seminar Series

Cyclops: Using imagers as a scalable sensing modality and their deployment at James Reserve

OpenOffice/StarOffice OpenDocument (Ver 2) Presentation

Invited Speaker: John Hicks, CENS
Date: August 31, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: 4760 Boelter Hall, UCLA

Abstract

Over the past couple of years, the cyclops teams at CENS has worked to design, develop, and implement a low power, wireless, scalable imaging platform. As with other low power sensors, scalability is a key asset allowing more imaging nodes that are more widely dispersed than cumbersome and power hungry solutions. The cyclops team used these sensors in a large scale deployment last spring to observe the interior of 25 nest boxes continuously throughout the nesting season.

Biography

John Hicks received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College. Shortly after graduating, he worked on an internship involving embedded sensing technology and continued to become a staff member at the CENS lab at UCLA. He currently works with various projects and graduate students at the CENS lab by coordinating deployments and developing code to enable successful research using embedded systems.