Followup the news in Open-ZB.net http://www.open-zb.net/feed.xml open-ZB.net already witnessed over 100 000 visits (effective visits, not just mouse clicks) and 6000 downloads of the toolset from around the world, including people from top universities and companies. Notably, there are 4-5 downloads in average per day, almost 4 years after the first release (November 2006). Since early 2009, the sinergies created by the open-ZB research team has triggered the creation of the TinyOS 15.4 and ZigBee Working Groups, in which we have been actively involved. In this line, we have been working towards "official" implementations of the standard 15.4 and ZigBee protocols, as well as of QoS add-ons (e.g. security, hidden-node avoidance, traffic differentiation, implicit GTS allocation). This work has been mainly supported by the CONET NoE, within the COTS4QoS research cluster. Thanks to all that have been putting such a confidence in our work :) http://www.open-zb.net/news.php More details at http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/activities/SEMINARS/Distinguished.ashx http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/activities/SEMINARS/Distinguished.ashx Just visit http://www.Z-Monitor.org for further details and for downloading the tool. Z-Monitor is a network sniffer for the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol that runs over a COTS hardware platform (TelosB) and that can be freely downloaded and used by everyone. It features frame decoding/timeline and topology visualization through an intuitive graphical user interface. It has been tested and validated through The tool is compatible with the official TinyOS implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, recently released as open-source by the TinyOS 15.4 Working Group (http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/special/working_group_tinyos_154). Z-Monitor has also been tested and validated with the open-ZB open-source implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol (http://www.open-ZB.net). http://www.Z-Monitor.org Our paper "Improving Quality-of-Service in Wireless Sensor Networks by mitigating hidden-node collisions" published at the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, is the most accessed since February 2010 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/topAccessedArticles.jsp?punumber=9424 The open-LQE website provides an open-source toolset for radio link quality estimation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). http://www.open-LQE.net/ The objective of the the SensorNets 2009 School is to present a comprehensive state-of-the-art of the enabling technologies for the concept of Cyber-Physical Systems such as Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID, wireless standard protocols, etc. from the basic concepts to the latest achievement and the future challenges in the related research area. Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009 http://www.sensornets-school.org/ We have now opened a call for positions as research scientists in wireless sensor networks. More information on http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/jobs/ http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/jobs/ International CONET Summer School | "SENIOT: From Sensor Networks to Networked Intelligent Objects" | July 26 - August 1, 2009, Bertinoro, Italy. See www.cooperating-objects.eu/school | APPLICATION DEADLINE -- May 15, 2009 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/school Cister researchers Eduardo Tovar, Bjorn Andersson, Shashi Prabh and Mário Alves participate in the kick-off meeting of the EMMON European project at Critical Software facilities, 25-26/MAR/2009, Coimbra, Portugal. The EMMON project (EMbedded MONitoring), launched by the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking (7th Framework Programme of the European Commission). EMMON's aims at the development of a functional prototype for the real-time monitoring of specific natural scenarios (related to the quality of urban life, forest environment, civil protection etc) using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices. The goal of the project is to develop the technology to effectively monitor and control an area of 50 square km - this will involve the deployment of thousands of wireless sensor nodes which will be a massive advance on the current state-of-the-art. http://www.criticalsoftware.com/critical-press-releases/european-consortium-develops-system-to-improve-peoples-living-conditions.html Ricardo Severino received this prestigious award for his Master Thesis "On the use of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee for Time-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Network Applications" (available for download in this web site). http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2009-awards/ Mário Alves gave a tutorial entitled "The wireless sensor networks standards and COTS landscape: can we get QoS and "calm technology"?", at the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09), February 11th, Cork, Ireland. Tutorial slides available in this web site. Summary and author bio at: http://www.ewsn.org/tutorial.html http://www.ewsn.org/tutorial.html The CONET European Network of Excellence has issued its first newsletter containing the member profile of ISEP-IPP, a guest column by John A. Stankovic and two roadmap previews. http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ The Chairs of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award Competitions in the area of Cooperating Objects. The prize is donated by CONET (http://www.cooperating-objects.eu), the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, which is an EU-funded project under ICT, Framework 7. Candidates must submit the required materials (in English) in electronic format until Jan 23rd. Submission of a single document file in PDF format must be done via EDAS (http://www.edas.info). More details are available here (http://www.ewsn.org/CONET_award.pdf). http://www.cooperating-objects.eu Two new TinyOS 2 Working Groups have been formed: a IEEE 802.15.4 (15.4) Working Group and a ZigBee Working Group. http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/story/2009/1/15/84439/1030 As from today, we make this rss feed available to you in order to keep you updated with the latest developments and news in our framework. http://www.open-zb.net/feed.xml