WSN Research Activities in Orange Labs

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WSN Research Activities in Orange Labs

• ZHANG Yu
• Research Expert
• Orange Labs - Beijing

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Orange Labs
8 centres in France
Warsaw
London
Seoul
Boston
Beijing
Tokyo
San Francisco
New Delhi

• France Telecom RD Center
• 16 locations around the World
• 3,900 researchers, engineers and scientists

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Wireless Sensor Network

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WSN Applications
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Markets for Wireless Sensor Networks

• Major Potential Markets
• Military
• Machine Health Monitoring
• Food Storage
• Factory Automation
• Plant Automation
• Building Automation
• Automotive
• Security
• Utilities

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Monitoring of Construction
New Bay Bridge Tower with Lateral Shear Links
Wireless Sensor Arrays Linked to Crisis
Management Control Rooms
Source UCSD Structural Engineering Dept.
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Trace and Smart House

• Trace
• Determine the position of objects
• Track people in a certain aera

• Smart House
• Adaptive and fine-grained monitoring of
  consumptions
• Consumption control for comfort and energy savings

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WSN Technical Issues

• Data dissemination
• Declarative Query
• Scoping
• Fault tolerance
• Multi-path data dissemination
• Multicast routing
• Enabling Technology
• Localization
• Time synchronization
• Security
• Cross Layer Optimization

• HW platform
• Energy efficiency
• Energy efficient MAC
• Data aggregation
• self-organization
• Naming Scheme
• Self-configuration
• Topology Management
• Routing
• Energy efficient routing
• Geographic routing

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What has been done?
Utility, relevance to WSN less relevant more
relevant
size of work
app algorithms
Localization, Time Sync
programming platforms
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WSN Adoption Inhibitors
Source ON World, Wireless Sensor Networks
Growing Markets, Accelerating Demand, July 2005
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Challenges Requirements

• Cost
• Capital and Operational expense
• Easy installation and maintenance
• Power management
• Compatibility Scalability
• Interoperability/Shared infrastructure
• Worldwide usability
• Capacity and scalability
• Performance
• Reliable communication
• Adequate reporting rates
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Timeliness (latency) and successful throughput
• Security and Standard Compliance

Source ISA-SP100 User Goals, Tom Phinney, ISA
Expo, 2005
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Our Vision to WSN

• WSN bridges the gap between the physical and
  virtual world.
• Growing requirements for easy sensing and
  control.
• Capture the ambient intelligence for a variety of
  context-aware, innovative services in 3G/B3G
  systems.
• Converge with our communications infrastructure
  and service platforms.

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PRONTO Project

• PRONTO project (PeRvasive and ubiquitOus systems
  NeTwOrks)
• to study and develop an expertise and solutions
  for pervasive environments (Hybrid/mesh, VANET,
  WSN)

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A Demo WSN in France Lab
http//senseandsensitivity.rd.francetelecom.com
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Lessons Learned

• Need specialization
• Hardware vs. Software
• Mesh Networking
• Enterprise Middleware
• Need standard interfaces
• XML, SQL
• Need to improve usability
• Need collaboration

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Give access to a new world of services