Snowflake
The systems research is focused at designing and building large-scale, energy efficient and cost-effective systems for smart grids, transportation and infrastructure monitoring and control.
Snowflake is a platform that is being developed at S3L incorporating the research in three main areas:
Snowflake is a platform that is being developed at S3L incorporating the research in three main areas:
- Sensing platforms
- Wireless communication
- Data processing and algorithms
- Sensing platforms: New sensing techniques and algorithms are being developed at S3L such as, wind velocity estimation, detecting progressive damage of structures, for high voltage and phase measurements, fault detection of the grid etc.
- Wireless communication: It is well known that wireless communication is the most energy-hungry component on the sensor devices. Further, range and reliability are important problems in existing systems. Some of the solutions being implemented in Snowflake include novel physical layer ideas to improve the range of low-power low-cost communication systems and designing energy-efficient routing protocols that incorporating these physical layer ideas, that optimizes the trade-offs between range and energy consumption.
- Data processing and algorithms: The snowflake platform combines data processing algorithms to extract useful information from the data to forward to the end-user in the cloud. The research focuses on developing statistical algorithms to generate clean and reliable information from noisy and lossy data which can then be used to control and optimize the infrastructure.