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SUMMARY:Experiences of Designing and Deploying Intelligent Sensor Nodes in
  Construction Sites - Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100506T150000Z
DTEND:20100506T160000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Industries such as construction and road maintenance are chara
 cterised by environments where manual labor is performed in harsh conditio
 ns with minimal or no IT support. The aim of the NEMO project in Lancaster
  University is to explore the potential to improve the work practices\, ma
 nagement and coordination of activities performed in such industries\, by 
 employing embedded wireless technologies. The objective is to build an env
 ironment where physical work artefacts such as tools\, vehicles and worker
 s are augmented with embedded cooperating mobile nodes featuring both sens
 ors and actuators. These nodes can form ad-hoc networks\, utilise their se
 nsing capabilities in order to observe the activities performed\, and coll
 aboratively offer assistance to the worker crew\, when necessary. One of t
 he primary areas of interest is the development of such systems to support
  health and safety in construction and road maintenance sites. This talk d
 escribes the experiences of designing and deploying intelligent sensor nod
 es in road maintenance sites\, with particular emphasis on the deployment 
 of a system for monitoring workers' exposure to Hand-Arm Vibrations.\n\nBi
 o: Christos Efstratiou is a Research Associate in the Computer Laboratory\
 , University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Lancaster University
 \, UK. He has been a Research Associate in Lancaster University and a visi
 ting researcher in Sony Electronics Distributed Systems Lab in San Jose. H
 is early work focused on the support for adaptive and context-aware applic
 ations in mobile environments. More recently\, he has been actively involv
 ed in research projects in the areas of wireless sensor networks\, and per
 vasive computing. He is currently working in the area of system support fo
 r federated sensor networks. \n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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