Abstract
The Princeton ZebraNet project is a collaboration of engineers and biologists to build mobile, wireless embedded systems for wildlife tracking. Over the lifetime of the project, we have implemented a number of compression, communication, and data management algorithms specifically tailored for the small memory, constrained energy and sparse connectivity of these long-lifetime systems. We have gone through three major generations of hardware and software implementations, and have done two successful real-world deployments on Plains Zebras in Kenya, with a third deployment planned for Summer, 2007. In this talk, I will discuss our real-life experiences with crafting embedded systems hardware and software, and our deployment experiences in Africa. I will also put forward a vision for how portability, reliability, and energy-efficiency can be well-supported in future embedded systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
- Design
- Experimentation
- Performance
- Reliability