OKGems Project Status Report

Period: 2Q12

I. Major accomplishments

• Built a complete ceiling sensor grid testbed at University of Florida
• Built the MagicLink middleware and protocol

A. Milestones achieved

• S4.b Publish requirements and sketch of plan for ORCA/GENI capability demos
• Partially done.

B. Deliverables made

• Internal server setup is up for testing.
• ​http://okgems.ece.ufl.edu/
• Snapshots of the ceiling sensor grid, ​http://okgems.ece.ufl.edu/images/ceiling_allinone.jpg

II. Description of work performed during last quarter

• Summary of accomplishments related to OKGems:
  • Built a sensor network testbed below the ceiling in our lab at UF (with about 120 nodes)
  • Conducted experiments on ORCA/ExoGENI slices

A. Activities and findings

The following tasks are ongoing:

• Prepare experimental demo on ORCA ExoGENI

B. Project participants

Investigators:

• Xiaolin (Andy) Li
• Johnson Thomas
• Weihua Sheng
• Nazanin Rahnavard

Staff:

• Kaikia Liu
• Xinxin Liu
• Di Wang
• Lulu Xie

C. Publications (individual and organizational)

＊ Xinxin Liu, Li Yu, Di Wang, and Xiaolin Li, "MagicLink: Weaving Multi-Site Wireless Sensor Networks for Large-Scale Experiments," the 8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom), 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece.

• G. Reyes*, D. Wang*, R. Nair*, C. Li, X. Li, J. Lin, "VitalTrack: A Doppler Radar Sensor Platform for Monitoring Activity Levels," the 2nd Annual IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS 2012).

D. Outreach activities

• Hosted a visiting PhD student on scholarship from Tongji University, China

E. Collaborations

• Collaborate with researchers in ECE at UF
• Collaborate with researchers in Medical School at UF

F. Other Contributions