Sensor Networks For Healthcare, the Environment and Homeland Defense

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Sensor NetworksFor Healthcare, the Environment
and Homeland Defense

• Invited Talk in the
• Cal-(IT)2 and UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
• Technical Workshop on Sensor Networks
• La Jolla, CA
• February 21, 2002

Larry Smarr Department of Computer Science and
Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering,
UCSD Director, California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology
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What is a SensorNet?

• Sensors
• Physical, Chemical, Biological, Imaging,
• Sensor Platform
• Computing, Power, Storage, Radios,
• Telecommunications Infrastructure
• Wired, Wireless, Internet,
• Sensor Arrays
• Homogeneous, Inhomogeneous, Ad Hoc,
• Layered Software
• Backend Data Systems

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SensorNets Are Becoming Ubiquitous

• Where
• Environment, Vehicles, Civil Infrastructure, Our
  Bodies,
• Sectors
• Research, Business, Health Care, Defense,
• Who Develops
• Universities, Private Sector, Government Labs,
• All Have Serious Policy Issues
• Privacy, Non-invasiveness, Spectrum Allocation,