Integrating a wireless sensor network into grid civil protection applications

• Author(s): Esteves, António ; Pina, António Manuel Silva ; Sá, Vítor J. ; Caldas, Marco ; Lebreiro, Nuno ; Lopes, Luiz
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18671
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Civil protection; Grid middleware; Wireless sensor network; Web service; OGC standards
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The CYCLOPS project is a FP6 SSA which aims to bring together two important Communities: GMES and Grid, focusing on the operative sector of European Civil Protection (CP). Recently University of Minho has done some job testing one of the CYCLOPS case studies - GRID deployment of control and monitoring of environmental wireless sensor networks (WSN) for climate monitoring and natural disasters reaction.