Research & Development

Ambient Systems is a pioneer in wireless sensor network technology. We are committed to maintain our leadership position in proven large-scale wireless sensor networks and also through continued research with world-class universities and business partners.
Ambient's co-founders, also working at the University of Twente are leading and participating in various research projects. Below you can see a number of projects we participate in:

Free: True-wireless mesh networks for transport and logistics
FREE project aims at developing energy management mechanism that operates on a wireless mesh network taking in consideration all its levels: from individual device to the network as a whole. Particularly, when individual devices employ energy scavenging technologies, estimates of the amount of available energy need to be made available to the energy management module.
In this project Ambient develops the networking protocols suitable for the heterogeneous mix of energy harvesting and battery powered devices. Additionally, Ambient designs and implements the mapping and execution of business rules for energy efficient local processing.
Website http://www.free-project.nl

SENIOR Project
(Sensing Systems for Interactive Home-based Healthcare and Rehabilitation) project will build interactive home-based systems based on miniaturized wireless sensors for monitoring and supporting the wellbeing and health of people, particularly elderly, in their everyday life. SENIOR is an iniatiative within the program of economical innovation Pieken in de Delta Oost-Nederland. The project brings together high-tech companies, research institutes and healthcare centers from The Netherlands. In the project Ambient develops the wireless backbone, and will allow the tracking of persons and object in the indoor environment.

SENSEI: Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future
SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction. Ambient is performing research on self calibrating localization, and the integration smart objects in the internet of the future.
http://www.sensei-project.eu/

Smart Surroundings
SMART SURROUNDINGS - The overall mission of the Smart Surroundings project is to investigate, define, develop, and demonstrate the core architectures and frameworks for future ambient systems. Our ambition is to move beyond prototypes toward sustainable systems for implementation of the ubiquitous computing vision. The research effort will span the entire spectrum ranging from scenarios of use, requirements elucidation and through to architectural design. In this project Ambient has developed an integrated wireless networking solution in which wireless sensing is combined with real-time tracking of persons. http://www.smart-surroundings.org

e-SENSE
e-SENSE enables capturing of Ambient Intelligence for Beyond 3G Mobile Communication Systems through Wireless Sensor Networks. It proposes a context capturing framework that enables the convergence of many input modalities, mainly focusing on energy efficient wireless sensor networks that are multi-sensory in their composition, heterogeneous in their networking, either mobile or integrated in the environment e.g. from single sensors to thousands or millions of sensors collecting information about the environment, a person or an object. This framework will be able to supply ambient intelligent systems with information in a transparent way hiding underlying technologies thus enabling simple integration. Ambient has researched energy efficient localization algorithms, and has developed a hardware localization engine for IEEE802.15.4 transceivers.
http://www.ist-esense.org/

COBIS
The CoBIs project will develop a new approach to business processes involving physical entities such as goods and tools in enterprise environments. The intention is to apply advances in networked systems to embed business logic in the physical entities. The goal is to create Collaborative Business Items (CoBIs) that make it possible to relate more closely the state of an enterprise as represented in business processes with what is actually happening in the real world. In this project, the focus of Ambient was on reliable wireless networking, and the integration of business rules on the smart objects. http://www.cobis-online.de/