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HYDROSYS is a EC funded Seventh Framework programme STREP project (grant 224416, DG INFSO) on spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management. The research aim of the project is to provide a system infrastructure to support teams of users in the on-site monitoring of events and analysis of natural resources. The project will introduce the innovative concept of event-driven campaigns using handheld devices, potentially supported by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Event-driven campaigns provide users the capacity to analyse and predict environmental changes on-site, supporting the process of taking appropriate countermeasures to avoid environmental degradation. During these campaigns, users will be able to setup and retrieve data from mobile sensorstations, the UAV and external sources (such as permanent sensor networks) in order to generate dense information on a small area. The whole sensor network system will gather and store sensor data, and process simulations based on physical process models. Hence, a shared information system fusing heterogeneous data sources will be provided that supports teams of stakeholders to monitor environmental processes on-site, complementing remote monitoring and management. To enrich the data sets from a specific location, additional remotely controlled cameras will be deployed, mounted on sensorstations and below the UAV. Users will be able to analyse the environment using mobile phones and handheld computers, supported by advanced user interface techniques. The project will improve monitoring and management for environmental scientists, institutions, service providers, engineering companies and municipalities through its strong integration of handhelds and sensor networks. The project will progress well beyond the current state in the art, by dealing with short-term events and detailed analysis of small sites. The analysis of such events is hardly supported by current methods, but has a large impact on environmental degradation. Furthermore, information is made available to citizens by providing mechanisms to access top-level environmental data. Within the project, cutting edge inter-disciplinary research will be performed to develop user-centered solutions. When the data is integrated with analytical tools in a shared information space it will also aid a wide range of managers and planners pursuing more environmentally sensitive solutions to engineering problems. To aid the process, the research is steered by considerable end-user involvement in all its phases.
The HYDROSYS consortium closely cooperates with the SwissEx initiative. HYDROSYS perfectly extends the SwissEx initiative by offering new research directions in the field of mobile computing. Though being a self-contained project, the HYDROSYS goals thus can be seen as a building block in the larger SwissEx initiative. Through this cooperation, HYDROSYS gains access to experience and software in the field of sensor technology, data acquisition and management, next to environmental data. Also, the large number of end-users involved through SwissEx strengthen the development being undertaken in the project. Specifically, HYDROSYS will make use of the Global Sensor Network (GSN) software, extending the GSN framework with some modules that are specifically needed for the aims of the HYDROSYS project, including real time sensor data processing, specific simulation functionality, and data access for handheld devices. Also, HYDROSYS greatly benefits from the sensor technology available, deploying among others the SensorScope sensing technology. On the other hand, the SwissEx initiative will gain access to a platform for on-site monitoring, deploying handheld devices, including advanced visualization approaches that will allow access to other data sources stored in GSN in other projects. Both SwissEx and HYDROSYS aim at providing an opensource infrastructure that can be used by a wider public. More information on HYDROSYS can be found at www.hydrosysonline.eu
HYDROSYS is a cooperation between Technische Universität Graz, Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Cambridge, Luode Consulting Oy, and Ubisense LTD. HYDROSYS is a EC funded Seventh Framework programme STREP project (grant 224416, DG INFSO).
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