Objective The major problems in designing sensor networks are the high reliability required to the whole system, to be contrasted with the potential unreliability of the single sensor, and the possibility of congestions around the sink nodes that could prevent critical information to reach the control centres at the right time. The key idea of WINSOC is the development of a totally innovative design methodology, where the high accuracy and reliability of the whole network is achieved by introducing a suitable coupling among adjacent, low cost, sensors, that gives rise to distributed decisions, much more accurate than that of each single sensor, without the need for sending all data to a fusion centre. The whole network is hierarchical and composed of two layers: a lower layer, composed of low cost sensors, responsible for gathering information from the environment and producing locally reliable decisions thanks to proper interaction among the nodes, and an upper layer, composed of more sophisticated nodes, whose goal is to convey the information to the control centres.The local interaction among the low cost sensors is the key point that increases the overall reliability and provides scalability and fault tolerance. Thanks to its distributed processing capabilities, the risk of having a congestion around the control nodes is strongly reduced. Building on this idea, the consortium has put together expertise from big companies, academies, research centres, end-users and SME's, to create a strong synergism between academic world, industries and end-users. The primary goals of WINSOC are to develop an innovative general purpose sensor network architecture having the distributed processing capabilities described above and to test applications on environmental risk management, with focus on landslides detection, gas leakage detection and large scale temperature field monitoring. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.5.12 - ICT for Environmental Risk Management Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator SELEX COMMUNICATIONS SPA EU contribution No data Address VIA RAFFAELE PIERAGOSTINI, 80 16151 GENOVA Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM India EU contribution No data Address ETTIMADAI 641 105 COIMBATORE See on map Total cost No data ANTRIX CORPORATION LIMITED India EU contribution No data Address ANTHARIKSH BHAVAN, NEAR NEW BEL ROAD 560 094 BANGALORE See on map Total cost No data CESKE CENTRUM PRO VEDU A SPOLECNOST Czechia EU contribution No data Address RADLICKA 28/663 150 00 PRAHA See on map Total cost No data COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE France EU contribution No data Address BATIMENT LE PONANT D, 25 RUE LEBLANC 75015 PARIS CEDEX 15 See on map Total cost No data DUNE S.R.L. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA TRACIA 4 00183 ROMA See on map Total cost No data ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland EU contribution No data Address STATION 1, BATIMENT CE 1015 LAUSANNE See on map Total cost No data INTRACOM S.A. TELECOM SOLUTIONS Greece EU contribution No data Address 19,7 KM MARKOPOULOU AVE 19002 PEANIA ATTICA See on map Total cost No data SAPIENZA SL Spain EU contribution No data Address CALLE JULIO PALACIOS 11 28029 MADRID See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" Italy EU contribution No data Address PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 5 00185 ROMA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Spain EU contribution No data Address JORDI GIRONA 31 08034 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data
