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Important News
The Sensor Web Automation Network (SWAN) invites academic, private, and public sector participants to a one-day strategic workshop on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario.
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SWAN is developing Sensor Web design and deployment tools that blend mixed sensor and communication hardware, both mobile and stationary, into one watershed monitoring system. Forest and watershed managers will more easily control and adjust their distributed environmental sensor networks, reducing maintenance and monitoring costs. The infrastructure will allow exploration of new water resource evaluation and modelling methods that focus on information-centric analysis rather than data-centric processing.

Our group is changing the way we can define, deploy, and operate spatially distributed sensor networks. We want to create new ways for people to use environmental monitoring, to explore and solve environmental problems, and we want you to help.

Funded MSc and PhD opportunities are available. Click here for information.

SWAN has three regional nodes spanning Canada. In each region, a university and at least one industry, government, or NGO affiliate work in close collaboration on this and other projects. The research activities span both field and software work, fostering strong collaborative interaction across the network.

SWAN is well-equipped to conduct vigorous field testing as we develop our tools. Our network operates four Crossbow-based sensor stations in the UNB area, and fifty Crossbow stations in the Malcolm Knapp Experimental Forest in BC. Solinst IWT stations will come online in the near future as we move into alpha testing. We have OGC-compliant geospatial servers at the University of Windsor and UNB to support system control and data distribution. We have a mixed collection of environmental sensors and communication hardware exceeding $300K to experiment with system generality.

For more information about SWAN and its activities please contact:
Dr. Phil Graniero, University of Windsor (graniero@uwindsor.ca)
Dr. Brad Nickerson, University of New Brunswick (bgn@unb.ca)
Dr. Markus Weiler, University of British Columbia (markus.weiler@ubc.ca)