Résumé des résultats (Abstract)
(Anglais)
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The parts of the Environmental Monitoring systems related to sensing and data collection are becoming the most critical aspect for the capital and operational costs of users together with the reliability of the resulting system. The project wants to tackle these aspects defining a general purpose architecture of Transmission Data Services embedded in the Telecommunication Networks services which exploits the most efficient available telecommunication services combined with the most promising basic innovations in the areas of Intelligent sensors and Intelligent terminals. With this system architecture the project will strongly contribute to paving in an innovative way the implementation of DSNs (Distributed Sensor Networks) in a tremendously different order of magnitude.
Objectives:
ADA/s objective is to develop and validate an affordable and innovative network architecture, embedded in the actual communication infrastructure, to be tested through the implementation of a Distributed Sensor Network composed of fixed and wireless terminals, that are made of innovative low cost, low consumption and small size sensors, for indoor and outdoor environmental applications;
To design and deploy an easy scalable and modular architecture that will enable interoperability among all subsystems (sensor & terminals, services and clients) enabling to set up custom-made solutions whether at the service or at the client side due to the innovative network and telecommunication features (dynamic access to the information, remote configuration of terminals and multimodal communication and billing);
To prove the ADA network features and its further exploitation possibilities through extensive partial testing of subsystems, computer simulations and whole system field trials;
To carry out operational validation (for outdoor application only) through the physical deployment in parallel to existing network of monitoring sites in one main European city (Spain);
To liase with other information systems for a dynamic evaluation of position and instantaneous measurement of pollutant concentrations;
Hence, allowing for the dynamic assessment of human exposure outdoors. ADA initially aims at supporting pollution abatement and also at exploring the exploitation possibilities of applications of a wider scope such as personal exposure or emergency and traffic management.
Work description:
ADA will be developed through 9 Work Packages:
WP1- Business model and architecture components definition: develops business models for the ADA architecture offering all the contemplated services. Sets all system/subsystems specifications at sensor, terminal and services level for overall compliance. It determines the required SW and HW components;
WP2- Implementation, test and validation plan: defines a test and validation plan for laboratory activities, computer simulations and whole system small scale field trials of the envisaged applications (air quality management and gas leak detection as well as portable sensors for personal exposure measurements);
WP3- System development: Based on WP1 develops all the different subsystems: A one packaging solution at the sensor level; A sensor terminal supporting most relevant communication possibilities (wireless GPRS, GSM and blue tooth, fixed ISDN lines). A Sensing System Provider and an Application Service Provider providing all the services contemplated in the ADA network, (dynamic configuration, dynamic network access, plug and play terminals, localisation and synchronisation, data search, transaction manager and terminal life cycle management);
WP 4- Integration, tuning, lab test and deployment: integrates all subsystems developed at WP3, carries out the partial testing and tuning of the sensors, the terminals and the ADA services. It deploys the whole system solution for the field trials;
WP 5- Field trials: of the considered applications (air quality monitoring in indoor and outdoor environments) verifying functionality, installation, long-term assessment and comparison with existing air quality networks;
WP6- Evaluation: Based on on-going results from WP4 and WP5 the evaluation stage assesses in various aspects the ADA network, including all technical achievements, system effectiveness, service provisioning, the cost benefit analysis and the expected contribution to standardisation in terms of subsystem requirements for interoperability;
WP7- Dissemination: ensures the spread out of the ADA project progress and results at national and EU level among potential users and actors that may take advantage of the ADA network;
WP8- Project management defines the overall organisation, ensures coordination of work packages and different partners and quality assurance procedures for a successful achievement of all project objectives;
WP9-Exploitation: will develop the business plans for specific exploitation of all research and industrial partners.
Milestones:
1- Functional specifications and System Architecture;
2- (ML1) To prove the feasibility of sensors, applications and network integration;
3- System developed and integrated, prototypes;
4-(ML2) Demonstration of system operation in laboratory and real conditions;
5- Inter comparison of applications with fixed network of outdoor monitoring stations Through this project, a highly innovative general purpose architecture that is modular, easy scalable and interoperable will be developed, tested and validated in real conditions for indoor and outdoor air quality applications and its exploitation opportunities exanimate for other tele-monitoring services.
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