Networked Infomechanical Systems NIMS Environmental Observatories

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Networked Infomechanical Systems
(NIMS)Environmental Observatories

• UCLA NIMS Team

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Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

• Micro-sensors, on-board processing, wireless
  interfaces feasible at very small scale--can
  monitor phenomena up close
• Enables spatially and temporally dense
  environmental monitoring
• Embedded Networked Sensing will reveal
  previously unobservable phenomena

Contaminant Transport
Ecosystems, Biocomplexity
Marine Microorganisms
Seismic Structure Response
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Networked Infomechanical Systems

• Networked mobile nodes
• Sensing
• Sampling
• Energy logistics
• Communication
• Infrastructure
• Enables deterministic and precise motion
• Enables proper elevation
• Enables mass transport at low energy
• System Ecology
• Fixed nodes
• Mobile nodes
• Infrastructure

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Overview

• NIMS Background
• Unprecedented capability for spatiotemporal
  mapping of structure and phenomena in complex
  environments
• ITR Program Objective
• Focused on fundamental, enabling IT
• Opportunity
• Harness NIMS for addressing urgent science
  questions
• Build a foundation for immediate next phase of
  broadly applicable science investigations within
  national and international programs
• NEON, LTER, Ameriflux

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Networked Infomechanical Systems

• Networked mobile nodes
• Sensing
• Sampling
• Energy logistics
• Communication
• Infrastructure
• Enables deterministic and precise motion
• Enables proper elevation
• Enables mass transport at low energy
• System Ecology
• Fixed nodes
• Mobile nodes
• Infrastructure

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NIMS ITR Program

• Fundamental Information Technology
• Introduces Networked Infomechanical Systems
  (NIMS) technology
• Exploits infrastructure for powerful sensing and
  precise, sustainable operation
• Embraces fixed and mobile nodes
• IT capability that exploits physical
  reconfiguration to provide
• Sensor Diversity that transports and orients
  sensors to provide optimal data acquisition
• Coordinated Mobility that proactively maps
  sensing uncertainty and drives physical
  reconfiguration

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NIMS Environmental Monitoring

• Access to three-dimensional volumes
• NIMS nodes may cover wide and deep transect
• Diverse Sensing
• Microclimate
• Imaging
• Acoustic
• Chemical
• Physical Sampling capability
• Air
• Water
• Sustainable operation
• Integrated energy harvesting

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NIMS ITR Progress Sept 2003 Start

• Developed NIMS Node prototype systems
• NIMS infrastructure
• NIMS horizontal and vertical nodes
• Energy harvesting system
• Deployed prototype NIMS Node system at Wind River
  Canopy Crane Research Facility
• 50m wide and 50m deep transect in Wind River
  forest at crane site
• Developing Adaptive Sampling Sensor Diversity
• Developed and demonstrated new methods for
  efficient sensor transport and sampling

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NIMS Prototype Deployment at Wind River Canopy
Crane Research Facility

• NIMS Node
• Transport
• Horizontal
• Vertical
• Meteorological sensors
• Imaging sensor
• Wireless network
• Solar energy collection
• 50 m x 50 m transect
• CENS/WRCCRF Collaboration
• K. Bible, J. Franklin, R. Meinzer

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Solar Cell
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NIMS Node
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Visible Imager With Pan/Tilt Actuator
Power Distribution Cable
50 m
Met Node (Ta, RH, PAR)
Battery Pack
CENS UCLA
Internet
WRCCRF Crane Site Dry Shack
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NIMS Prototype Deployment at WRCCRF
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NIMS Prototype Deployment at WRCCRF
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NIMS Prototype Deployment at WRCCRF
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Adaptive Sampling of Environmental Variables PAR
Measurements in Laboratory Testbed
PAR Illumination Intensity
Vertical Scan (m)
Horizontal Scan (m)
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Education Programs

• Undergraduate Student Research Program and
  Courses
• Graduate Student Research
• G6-8 Outreach

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Proposed Portable NIMS Systems

• General purpose with infrastructure options
• Rapidly installed towers
• Natural tree and terrain environment
• Capabilities
• Self-sustaining
• Horizontal and Vertical transport
• Sensors
• Microclimate
• Acoustic localization
• Multispectral Imaging
• Sampling
• Gas
• Water

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Diverse Applications Anticipated

• Enables
• New science investigations
• Fundamental characterization of sites to permit
  progress in other areas
• Programs
• NEON
• NIMS environmental observatories
• LTER Program
• Ameriflux Program
• Spatially resolved CO2 flux
• Environments
• UC James Reserve
• WRCCRF Forest region
• Andrews Forest
• La Selva

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NIMS Team

• Undergraduate Students
• Roja Bandari
• Jamie Burke
• Anita Chan
• Ryan Fong
• Kris Porter
• Bryan Ribaya
• Rachel Scollans
• Hassan Sharghi
• Lisa Shirachi
• Lynn Wang

• Graduate Students
• Lisa Gruzdas
• David Jea
• Aman Kansal
• Chris Lucas
• Steven Liu
• Richard Pon
• Mohammad Rahimi
• Nithya Ramanathan
• Jeffrey Tseng

• Faculty Team
• R. Ambrose (UCLA Public Health)
• D. Estrin (UCLA Computer Science)
• M. Hamilton (UC Riverside)
• T. Harmon (UCLA Civil Engineering)
• J. Jay (UCLA Civil Engineering)
• W. Kaiser (PI) (UCLA Electrical Eng.)
• G. Pottie (UCLA Electrical Eng.)
• P. Rundel (UCLA Organismic Biology)
• M. Srivastava (UCLA Electrical Eng.)
• G. Sukhatme (USC Computer Science)
• J. Villasenor (UCLA Electrical Eng.)