SAFE Ramprasad Balasubramanian CIS
Howard Michel ECE
Vinod Vokkarane CIS
Liudong Xing ECE
Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang CIS

The immediate goal of the SAFE cluster is to create a Secure-Campus environment. The research plan calls for the investigation of using wireless sensor networks to monitor classrooms and hallways on a campus, with the least amount of deployment cost and intrusion into student's privacy, for events such as campus shootings and hostage situations. The cluster is also interested in expanding the “Secure Campus” concept to the “Smart and Sustainable Campus,” which will cultivate the collective intelligence of the SAFE cluster in energy (electricity and water) savings, dormitories security and management, as well as classroom and possibly exam monitoring via wireless sensor networks. The wireless sensor network prototype and technical understanding acquired during the course of this project will put the SAFE cluster in a position to submit proposals for external funding by the end of the project.

In this cluster the faculty will build a sensor network prototype to experiment with some of the fundamental issues of wireless sensor networks. This prototype can easily be adapted for emulating other types of intelligent environments such as smart homes, infant and child monitoring, border security, and people-tracking in complex environments such as shopping malls, sports stadiums, hospitals, and airports, all high-priority areas for agencies such as Homeland Security and NSF.

Contact:
Prof. Ramprasad Balasubramanian: r.bala@umassd.edu