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Cyber
Physical Computing
Department of
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Gallery
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Below
please find some random instances of exposition of life in the cyber physical
computing lab. Enjoy the mini-tour! |
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EnviroSuite (Left) Indoor pre-deployment testing of EnviroSuite! This permanently powered testbed
is the next stage of evaluation after simulation and before the code is ready
to leave the lab for the real world. Lots of bugs meet their demise on this
table! |
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GeoPhone (Right) Field deployment of GeoPhone
in Trelease Woods, a few miles away from the UIUC
campus. Dozens of motes are deployed to form a distributed microphone that
detects and records forest sounds. In this case, it stores bird vocalizations
for a study to understand bird social and mating behavior. (Bottom) Quiz: The first person to correctly identify the
GPS locations of all 20 motes in the figure below gets a free iPod nano! |
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Smart Attire (Left) You have to sign a release form to wear the jacket in
figure. It will track your location, record your sound, and identify your
activities. The information will be uploaded wirelessly to a base station for
archiving. (Warning: Not a good anniversary present.) (Right) Tracking with Smart Attire on UVa
campus. |
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“Hot” Sensing Have you heard of HotNets and HotOS? Well, sensing can be so hot,
some experiments do need sun-screen! Fire can spread through acres of vegetation in literally
less than 5 minutes. This picture is taken a few minutes into the burn of
what used to be a lush prairie during a fire monitoring experiment. At that
rate it will only be minutes more before these flames reach the forest in the
background. Real-time response is needed to detect and react to land fire. Remark: No grad students were hurt in this
experiment… (but please don’t try this
at home). |
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