SANY Sensors Anywhere

The EGU General Assembly 2010 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcome you in Vienna!

ESSI15/GI11 Web Sensors session

"In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies--even our dreams." (Neil Gross: Interview with Terry Murray in Business Week, August 1999)

Ten years later, the low-cost miniaturized sensors and wireless sensor nodes are on a way to become truly ubiquitous, but the vision of a fully fledged electronic skin is still a remote dream. The aim of this session is to discuss the factors that have so-far prevented the establishment of the "electronic skin", analyze the recent developments, and propose the agenda for achieving the Murray's vision in a technologically feasible, economically sane and societally acceptable manner.

We encourage the submission of both conceptual and application oriented contributions for the following topics (but are not limited to):

• Business Models: how can we achieve the sustainability of the "electronic skin" infrastructure?
  
• Cost & performance: which main cost factors exist; how do they scale (e.g. with network size, number of nodes, time, type and quality of observations), and what can be done to optimize the total cost of ownership?
  
• Data Fusion: how can we maximize the value and accuracy of the information gathered from heterogeneous data sources?
  
• Energy: how to assure the autonomous operation of sensor nodes in different applications?
  
• Sensor types: which phenomena can be measured; what are the physical limitations to achievable accuracy, reliability, and long-term stability of miniaturized sensors; which applications can (not) be realized within these limitations?
  
• Social impact: which privacy and security objectives must be met, and how to achieve them?

Note: the topics are listed in alphabetic order.

The "Earth and Space Science Informatics" division of the European Geoscience Union shares much of the SANY goals and vision concerning the importance of Sensor Web Enablement and web-enabled services for sensors and other geospatial information. SANY team is therefore pleased to recommend this event, and to organise a ESSI15/GI11 Web Sensors session at this event. Please follow the links below for more information:

LINK: Earth and Space Science Informatics at EGU 2010
LINK: ESSI15/GI11 Web Sensors session