Data Management in Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Wei Hong
Intel Research Lab at Berkeley
In this talk, I will discuss the new system challenges in data
management in sensor networks and some exciting research opportunities
in this emerging field. I will present some of our solutions in
TinyDB/TASK, an in-network sensor database system and its supporting
toolkit that we have built to meet some of these challenges. A live
TinyDB/ASK demo will be included in this talk. I will also share some of
our experiences in deploying sensor networks in the real world based on
a variety of applications that we have deployed or are pursuing.
About the speaker
Dr. Wei Hong is a senior researcher and principal investigator at Intel
Research, Berkeley. His current research focuses on data management
issues in sensor networks. He leads the Tiny Application Sensor Kit
(TASK) project at Intel Research and co-designed/developed TinyDB, an
open-source, in-network sensor database system. Prior to joining Intel
Research, Dr. Hong co-founded and architected two startup companies:
Illustra Information Technology Inc. and Cohera Corp. Illustra developed
the first successful commercial Object-Relational database system. It
was acquired by Informix, now part of IBM. Cohera provided electronic
catalog management solutions based on a novel federated database system
that it developed. Its technology was acquired by PeopleSoft. Dr. Hong
earned a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley and holds a master
and two bachelor degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.