Matt Welsh

TinyOS: An Operating System for Sensor Networks

Querying Large Collections of Music for Similarity

We present a system capable of performing similarity queries against a large archive of digital music. Users are able to search for songs which "sound similar" to a given query ...

Deploying a wireless sensor network on an active volcano

Augmenting heavy and power-hungry data collection equipment with lighten smaller wireless sensor network nodes leads to faster, larger deployments. Arrays comprising dozens of w...

Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities

Sensor networks, a new class of devices has the potential to revolutionize the capture, processing, and communication of critical data for use by first responders. CodeBlue inte...

Vital Signs Monitoring and Patient Tracking Over a Wireless Network

Patients at a disaster scene can greatly benefit from technologies that continuously monitor their vital status and track their locations until they are admitted to the hospital...

The <i>nesC</i> language

We present nesC, a programming language for networked embedded systems that represent a new design space for application developers. An example of a networked embedded system is...