Advances for networks.(Business Sense)(MACSEA Ltd.)(grant to improve information by sensor networks)

Sensors Magazine, March, 2004 by Goode, Barbara G.

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant targets data from sensor networks. According to Christos Cassandras, he and a team of researchers hope to "take the right actions through effective management of the information being gathered." And, he adds, to "squeeze out as much efficient use of power as we can so that the sensors will be cheap to use and will last a long time."

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Cassandras, professor at Boston University's (BU's) college of engineering and a member of the college's Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE, www.bu.edu/systems), is leading a team on the receiving end of a five-year, $2.5 million grant to improve information use by...