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Embedded systems in the wild: ZebraNet software, hardware, and deployment experiences

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The Princeton ZebraNet project is a collaboration of engineers and biologists to build mobile, wireless embedded systems for wildlife tracking. Over the lifetime of the project, we have implemented a number of compression, communication, and data management algorithms specifically tailored for the small memory, constrained energy and sparse connectivity of these long-lifetime systems. We have gone through three major generations of hardware and software implementations, and have done two successful real-world deployments on Plains Zebras in Kenya, with a third deployment planned for Summer, 2007. In this talk, I will discuss our real-life experiences with crafting embedded systems hardware and software, and our deployment experiences in Africa. I will also put forward a vision for how portability, reliability, and energy-efficiency can be well-supported in future embedded systems.

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          cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
          ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 41, Issue 7
          Proceedings of the 2006 LCTES Conference
          July 2006
          208 pages
          ISSN:0362-1340
          EISSN:1558-1160
          DOI:10.1145/1159974
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          • cover image ACM Conferences
            LCTES '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Language, compilers, and tool support for embedded systems
            June 2006
            220 pages
            ISBN:159593362X
            DOI:10.1145/1134650

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