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Sensors
Sensors and Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks
SwissEx supports the development of three wireless sensor network projects:
- SensorScope: Developing the open source, self organising wireless network technology and simple plug-and-play bus system, sold and supported by SensorScope SARL.
- Hydromon: Providing a supporting infrastructure and additional funding to the Hydromon partnership - a collaboration of private companies and EPFL to develop a real-time water quality monitoring system.
Sensor Development
Swiss Experiment partners are looking to improve the sensing technologies currently available for measurements in the alpine region. To this end, the following projects are taking place:
- Disdrometer: a low power video disdrometer is being designed and built to replace current video disdrometer technology (which requires 500W).
- Anemometry: Hot-wire anemometry and fast temperature sensors amongst other technologies are being investigated for use in the field.
- LIDAR: Development of a new, 3D scanning LIDAR.
- RADAR: Two groups are looking at the application of single and dual polarised radar technologies in the alpine environment and the associated rainfall disaggregation techniques.
- Intelligent sensors: Robotics technologies can be put into practice for optimisation of the ways in which we measure in the field.
Supporting Infrastructure Hardware
New technologies can play a large role in the way in which we bring data back from the field. It is often the case that these technologies are not fully exploited, hence SwissEx is aiming to provide any of its partners with the best methods available for getting their data back. An example of this is long distance WiFi links.
