Welcome to the SWAP Project!
The SWAP mid term review will take place @ CTTC on Friday the 20th of May 2012!
SWAP Objectives
Most innovative aspects of the project: first of all, SWAP aims at studying and realizing a novel sensor board which exploits removable energy source by means of harvesting systems. This platform will enable multiple harvesting systems to be inter-changed, in order to provide the best solution for many different environments. A novel protocol suite will be studied, including the most energy-efficient techniques from the state of the art and, also taking into consideration the issues related to the energy availability offered by harvesting systems. The entire design process will be assisted by validating mechanisms, such as simulation campaign and components prototyping. The final sensor board will be made available to both scientific organizations and commercial companies. The ConsortiumThe SWAP consortium involves strong partners from academia (CFR), a public research center (CTTC) as well as two ICT companies (World Sensing and Patavina Technologies), all with a solid understanding of wireless sensor systems, from their protocol/hardware design to the implementation and testing phases. In the last few years, all partners have been heavily involved in several flagship EU initiatives as well as in industrial and local projects. |
Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system (SWAP) combines the energy-efficient paradigm of wireless sensor networks with the self-sustainable capabilities of harvesting systems. SWAP aims at providing a novel sensor board consisting of 1) a high efficiency RF transceiver; 2) a low power micro controller; 3) an energy accumulator; 4) modular harvesting systems. To this aim SWAP will study advanced solution for RF circuits and antennas, will use state of the art micro controllers, will implement highly efficient accumulator and will investigate on harvesting techniques. In particular, the different harvesting modules will be applied to standard sensor networks scenarios: for instance, environmental monitoring networks are more likely to use photo voltaic cells, while urban sensor networks can use instead vibrations, and harvest the available ambient electromagnetic (EM) energy. SWAP will also study communication protocol from the physical to the network layer in order to implement the techniques offering the highest efficiency as well as taking into consideration the temporary availability of energy sources. Also, the SWAP system will be realized and tested on the field; applications will be developed in order to provide the basic services for the new platform. As a final result, SWAP aims at obtaining a new wireless sensor paradigm totally independent of batteries and, moreover, having as little an impact on the environment as possible. Please check out our paper on SWAP technology FP7 People
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In a nutshell: the main goal of the SWAP project is that of designing, implementing and ultimately testing a new breed of wireless sensor nodes with energy scavenging capabilities. Our design will include novel energy scavenging hardware as well as network protocols and algorithms.
