Arranging a Marriage: Sensor Networks and Data Science for Experimental Ecology
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| Date | 17.07.2014 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Paul G. Flikkema, Professor at Northern Arizona University |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
New applications are driving research in sensor/actuator networks, and, more broadly, research in cyber-physical systems (CPS). As the technologies for wirelessly-networked sensing systems mature, focus is shifting to meeting application-specific needs. One CPS application domain is ecological systems, motivated by the need to understand the effects of climate change on plants, plant communities, and ecosystems. We are developing a system architecture and implementation for precise fine-scale data- and model-driven control of irrigation in the Southwest Experimental Garden Array (www.sega.nau.edu), an array of geographically-distributed outdoor gardens on an elevation gradient of over 1000 m, allowing design of experiments that combine control of temperature and soil moisture. This talk describes key aspects of this distributed cyber-eco system, including recent work to integrate insights and tools from data science, including processing of streaming data schema design, with our system to enable support of many complex and distributed ecological experiments.
Bio: Paul G. Flikkema is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the EECS Department at Northern Arizona University. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2013-2014, he was the Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair at Aalto University. He is currently the Director of NAU’s Informatics and Computing Program, a new academic unit that focuses on interdisciplinary research where computational science is essential. His research and education interests include wireless networking, sensor/actuator networks, embedded systems, and applications to environmental and energy systems.
Bio: Paul G. Flikkema is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the EECS Department at Northern Arizona University. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2013-2014, he was the Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair at Aalto University. He is currently the Director of NAU’s Informatics and Computing Program, a new academic unit that focuses on interdisciplinary research where computational science is essential. His research and education interests include wireless networking, sensor/actuator networks, embedded systems, and applications to environmental and energy systems.
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