Autonomous Networks

Autonomous wireless network architectures offer self-configuration and reliability advantages that are ideally suited for dynamic environments within the home, at work, and in the field. These networks have promise in a broad range of areas, including environmental, medical, biomedical, security, surveillance, and computer peripheral applications. The integration of sensor technology with low-power Autonomous wireless transceivers also offers the prospect of devices capable of connecting to form large self-organizing sensor networks. These wireless motes combine sensing, communication, and computation into complete platforms for the detection and transmission of data.

TRLabs has a long history of research in Autonomous wireless networks. Prior work has included: the development of novel system architectures for rural communications; simulation and modeling of Autonomous networks to estimate system performance in the presence of interference, shadowing and fading effects; and the design of multi-hop routing protocols with quality of service (QoS) guarantees.

Energy Efficient Autonomous Networks

The goal of this project is to develop a complete personal area/sensor network design with extremely low power consumption. Power consumption will be minimized by taking a unified design approach that accounts not only for physical layer hardware power consumption but also inefficiencies that may exist in the higher layers of the protocol stack. The project is divided into three phases: physical layer design; protocol development; and prototype network. Learn more ...

Low Power Sensor Network Transceivers

This project involves the design of the sensing circuitry and low power wireless transceivers optimized for low data rate applications. The long term objective of the project seeks to develop new low-cost, low-power CMOS transceiver building blocks, integrated into a general purpose platform that interfaces to a variety of sensors, and sends data wirelessly in a secure fashion to data gathering locations. Learn more ...