European Commission "Integrated Project" (IP) 7th Framework Programme

Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, France
The University of Surrey , UK
ALMA Consulting Group, France
Ove Arup and Partners International, UK
Ericsson AB , Sweden
NEC Europe Ltd, UK
SAP AG, Germany
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Spain
Thales Research & Technology ( UK ) Limited, UK
Ambient Systems B.V., The Netherlands
Sensinode, Finland
Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
University of Oulu, Finland
Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble II, France
University of Twente , The Netherlands
Ericsson d.o.o. Belgrade, Serbia
Telenor, Norway

January 2008 to December 2010

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces.

SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction.

Tangible results of the SENSEI project are:

1) A highly scalable architectural framework with corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy plug and play integration of a large number of globally distributed WS&AN into a global system - providing support for network and information management, security, privacy and trust and accounting.

2) An open service interface and corresponding semantic specification to unify the access to context information and actuation services offered by the system for services and applications.

3) Efficient WS&AN island solutions consisting of a set of cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver targeting 5nJ/bit.

4) Pan European test platform, enabling large scale experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and execution of field trials - providing a tool for long term evaluation of WS&AN integration into the Future Internet.

Technology developed by SENSEI will play an essential part in transforming the existing Internet, Mobile Networks and Service Infrastructures into a Network of the Future that is capable to deal with the challenging demands of a Future Networked Society.

Leadership of Work Package 2: Sensor Information Services (WP2).

WP2 will define the conceptual level of the overall SENSEI Framework, specifying standardized interfaces as well as the underlying model for context information and actuation tasks, taking into account quality of information and actuation. WP2 will also investigate the scalable processing of context information as well as the adaptation of context processing given the changing availability of WS&AN islands as context sources.

Participation in Work Package 3: Global and Pluggable Sensor and Actuator Networking Framework

WP 3 aims at providing a scalable global networking framework for Sensors and Actuators, interconnecting the WS&AN islands. NEC's focus is on the service level architecture as well as the security aspects including AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) concepts and the modelling of trust within the system.

Participation in Work Package 4: Efficient Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

The goal of WP4 is to design and develop an efficient WS&AN solution. NEC's focus is on secure and dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration of a WS&AN, as well as on secure operation of a WS&AN.

Claudia Villalonga, Martin Bauer, Vincent Huang, Jesús Bernat and Payam Barnaghi: Modeling of Sensor Data and Context for the Real World Internet, Workshop on Context Modelling and Reasoning (CoMoRea), IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, March 2010

Nicola Bui, Moreno Dissegna, Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi , Osman Ugus: An Integrated System for Secure Code Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks, Sixth IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking, PWN 2010

Vlasios Tsiatsis, Alexander Gluhak, Tim Bauge, Frederic Montagut, Jesus Bernat, Martin Bauer, Claudia Villalonga, Payam Barnaghi, Srdjan Krco: The SENSEI Real World Internet Architecture, in: Towards the Future Internet - Emerging Trends from European Research. Edited by Georgios Tselentis, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, Srdjan Krco, Volkmar Lotz, Elena Simperl, Burkhard Stiller, Theodore Zahariadis, ISBN  978-1-60750-538-9, pp. 247 - 256, 2010

Vlasios Tsiatsis, Alexander Gluhak, Tim Baugé, Fréderic Montagut, Jesús Bernat, Martin Bauer, Claudia Villalonga, Payam Barnaghi, Srdjan Krc: The SENSEI Real World Internet Architecture (Poster), Future Internet Assembly, Stockholm, November 2009

Alexander Gluhak, Martin Bauer, Frederic Montagut, Vlad Stirbu, Mattias Johansson, Jesus Bernat Vercher, Mirko Presser: Towards an Architecture for a Real World Internet, ICT Mobile Summit, Santander, June 2009

Alexander Gluhak, Martin Bauer, Frederic Montagut, Vlad Stirbu, Mattias Johansson, Jesus Bernat Vercher, Mirko Presser: Towards an Architecture for a Real World Internet, in: Towards the Future Internet - A European Research Perspective, Georgios Tselentis, John Domingue, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, David Hausheer, Srdjan Krco, Volkmar Lotz, and Theodore Zahariadis (Editors), Future Internet Assembly, Prague Book, ISBN 978-1-60750-007-0, May 2009

Martin Strohbach, Jesús Bernat Vercher, Martin Bauer: A case for IMS - Harvesting the Power of Ubiquitous Sensor Networks, Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE , vol.4, no.1, pp.57-64, March 2009

Jens-Matthias Bohli, Alban Hessler, Osman Ugus, Dirk Westhoff: Security enhanced multi-hop over the air reprogramming with fountain codes, IEEE SENSEAPP 2009

Jens-Matthias Bohli and Andreas Pashalidis: Relations among Privacy Notions, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC'09, Springer LNCS vol. 5628, pp. 362-380, 2009.

Jens-Matthias Bohli, Christoph Sorge, Dirk Westhoff: Initial Observations on Economics, Pricing, and Penetration of the Internet of Things Market, in: ACM Computer Communication Review 39(2), pages 50-55 (Editorial Note), April 2009

Osman Ugus, Dirk Westhoff, Jens-Matthias Bohli: A ROM-friendly Secure Code Update mechanism for WSNs using a stateful-verifier T-time Signature Scheme, ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, WiSec'09, pp. 29-40, ACM, 2009.

Emiliano De Cristofaro and Jens-Matthias Bohli and Dirk Westhoff: FAIR: Fuzzy based Aggregation providing In-network Resilience for real-time Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, WiSec'09, pp. 253-260, ACM, 2009.

A. Gluhak, M. Bauer, V. Stirbu, T. Baugé, M. Johansson: System Concepts, Interactions and Technical Challenges in SENSEI, ICT Mobile Summit 2008 Workshops, Electronic Proceedings, June 2008

Martin Strohbach, Jesus Bernat Vercher, Martin Bauer: Harvesting the Power of Ubiquitous Sensor Networks – A Case for IMS, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) 21, WG2 – Service Architecture, Stockholm, 13th -15th October 2008

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