MetroSense: Scalable Security Sensor Systems (4S)

Project Summary

Sensor networks will provide a foundation to protect and monitor our national infrastructure, including economically important businesses with global reach (e.g., stock markets), critical transport and industrial facilities, the enterprise, and the border. These tiny, low-cost wireless devices embed on-board sensing, are fully programmable, and can spontaneously form large sensor webs with thousands of distributed sensor devices. In this project, we will study, analyze, propose, deploy, and evaluate MetroSense, a radically different scalable secure sensor architecture and system capable of reliable real-time monitoring and data fusion for large-scale critical infrastructure, resources, and assets. MetroSense opportunistically leverages mobile sensors when available to deal with sparse coverage and communications when sensing. We plan to develop a campus-area sensing architecture based on three integrated components (sensing and communications, sensor security, and sensor fusion) and deploy the system incrementally across campus with the goal of using static and mobile sensors for reliable monitoring and data fusion of campus plant, spaces, and people flow. Results from this project will serve as a foundation for building secure sensor networks capable of monitoring large-scale critical infrastructure.

• Principal Investigators: Andrew Campbell, Department of Computer Science, David Kotz, Department of Computer Science, George Cybenko, Thayer School of Engineering
  
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• Funding: Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division, (DHS-NCSD)