An Overview of the VigilNet Architecture

Abstract

Battlefield surveillance often involves a high element of risk for military operators. Hence, it is very important for the military to execute unmanned surveillance by using large-scale wireless sensor systems. This invited paper summarizes the architecture of the VigilNet system a long-term real-time networked sensor system for military surveillance. Specifically, we review the design of several major subsystems within VigilNet including sensing and classification, localization, tracking, networking, power management, reconfiguration, graphic user interface, and the debugging subsystem. High-level programming abstractions are also presented. This is a balanced design to achieve realtime response, high confidence detection, accurate tracking and energy efficiency simultaneously.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA446894

Entities

People

  • Gang Zhou
  • John A. Stankovic
  • Lin Gu
  • Liqian Luo
  • Pascal Vicaire
  • Qing Cao
  • Quihua Cao
  • Radu Stoleru
  • Tian He
  • Ting Yan

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Energy Consumption
  • Environment
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • Network Topology
  • Sensor Networks
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Autonomy - UAVs