Framework for Dynamic Configuration and Interoperability of Heterogeneous Off-shore Oil Spill Wireless Sensor Networks
Implementing Organization
University of South Alabama
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$15,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Funding Program
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GoMRI Grant Program
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Oil System Safety Research
Targeted Resources
Human and/or Institutional Capacity
Project Description
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be a complement to remote sensing. WSNs envision circumstances where low-cost wireless sensor nodes are rapidly deployed over a region where oil slicks have been spilled adhering to the oil slick above t.he water surface. As the oil slick spreads, the devices will move away from each other while floating around with the slick, sensing, processing, and transmitting information about the oil spill. Since the maximum wireless information range of each node is 1 km, there should be at least one sensor node in every square kilometer of area.
Contact
Waleed Al-Assadi251-460-7154
waleed@usouthal.edu
Project Website
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