Hydrosys

Outline

The project provides a system to support teams of users in on-site monitoring events using handheld devices. The project makes use of both cell phones and handheld computers (ultra mobile personal computers) to reach a large user-base. To analyse the data on-site, the system platform provides the necessary techniques to deliver the correct data for the location being observed by tracking the users, and also to visualize this data effectively, taking care of the restricted computational resources (WP3). The handhelds will access information from advanced sensor technology, managed by a sensor network system. The sensor network system gathers and stores sensor data, and will process simulations based on numerical models. Furthermore, to obtain rich data sets from a specific location, additional sensors are developed (WP4). To support the user to retrieve and interact with the visualized data, user interfaces are developed, that are used to obtain specific information from the sensors, or to interact with the simulation modules (WP5). To validate the system, two application areas are chosen, dealing with pollution caused by storm water, and permafrost melting (WP6). Both areas are not well understood and thus form a perfect base to do both validation and actual research on the processes. The applications will form the basis for the demonstration (WP8) and partially for the experiments (WP7).

System	Sensor tech	Interfaces	Applications