Project full title: Space Wireless sensor networks for Planetary Exploration
European Union FP7 programme
FP7-SPACE – SPA.2012.3.1-01 – Bringing terrestrial SME research into the space domain
Grant agreement no.: 312826
Website
http://swipe.tekever.com/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/312826/
Coordinator: Tekever (PT)
Consortium: TEKEVER (PT); ARQUIMEA (ES); ASTRIUM (FR); University of Leicester (UK); Consortium for Research in Automation and Telecommunications (C.R.A.T.) (IT)
Duration: 31 months
Starting Date: April 2013
Expected Ending: December 2015
CRAT Key Persons
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Antonio Pietrabissa
Project Description: In order to prepare for manned missions to other planets, it is necessary to monitor permanently the surface environment and have a clear notion of its conditions.
Hundreds or thousands of small wireless sensors could be dropped from a satellite orbiting the planet onto the surface to assure a uniform and sufficient coverage. These autonomous sensors would then create their own ad hoc network while some of them, equipped with satellite communication capabilities, would establish a link between the WSN and the satellite. Data gathered from the sensors would be processed and sent to the satellite and later to Earth.
SWIPE intends to bring hybrid satellite-ad hoc networks to space.
CRAT Contribution: CRAT is the leader of the energy-aware resource management algorithms and protocols for the WSN MANET segment.