sensor level

• analog and digital circuit design
• signal processing and real-time software development
• ad-hoc wireless and custom wired communication networks
• distributed processing
• data encryption

gateway level, Data concentrator, Middle layer

• digital hardware and system development
• multi protocol network software development
• data processing
• real-time operating systems

server/cloud level

• high availability backend server development
• database system modeling and design
• data analytics: data filtering, clustering and virtual screening, pattern matching, similarity search algorithms
• alarm and signal dispatch to operation stations

user interface

• web technologies
• software development for mobile software platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows8

dependable Wireless Networking

• security and privacy issues in wireless networks
• access control schemes to sensor collected data
• secure routing, secure clustering
• resilient data aggregation
• secure transport protocols for sensor networks
• techniques to protect network coding based distributed data storage
• secure communication protocol for sensors of limited resources
• network bootstrapping with neighbor discovery
• confidentiality, integrity and authentication

• freescale iMX 233 processor, ARM 926 @ 454 MHz
• embedded Linux operating system
• hardware configurable MEP communication RS232, RS485 or M-BUS
• CDMA2000 network on 450 MHz