The WinyDB Project at HKUST

WinyDB is an embedded query processing system on Windows CE .NET based PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) for extracting information from a network of wireless, smart sensor nodes. It descends from the TinyDB system developed at UC Berkeley. Compared with its PC-based ancestor, WinyDB has its own unique features:

Embedded. WinyDB is developed using the .NET Compact Framework on Windows CE .NET and works well on PDAs running Windows CE Mobile 2003 (aka Pocket PC 2003).
Distributed. Multiple PDAs running WinyDB can communicate with one another and query the local sensor network as well as remote sensor networks.
Efficient. Both PDAs and sensor networks are resource constrained. WinyDB has a resource management component and optimizes its operations to minimize the resource consumption in a cost-based manner.

Code Packages

WinyDB is under rapid development.

The distributed version of WinyDB code package is in WinyDB-1.1.0.zip (Dec 5, 2006), including a simple readme.txt file and screenshots of the interface.
The first version of WinyDB code package is in WinyDB-1.0.0.zip (March 15, 2005), including a simple readme.txt file and screenshots of the interface.

Documents

Tsz Wai Chiu and Qiong Luo. Collaboratively Querying Sensor Networks through Handheld Devices. MDM 2007.

Page created and maintained by Qiong Luo. Last modified on Aug 25, 2008.