Project: Continuous Spatial Awareness (CoSA) for Smart and Connected Objects
Award Number: 1617161
Period: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2020
Principal Investigator: Kyle Jamieson kylej@cs.princeton.edu
Introduction: Embedded, smart, Internet-of-Things objects such as radio tags, light bulbs, and wearable e-health devices are right now making their way into our daily lives, raising questions of how we will be able to communicate and interact with them. One property common to these IoT objects is that they all possess compact, convenient form factors that integrate well physically into our world. A resulting challenge is that most of these are therefore antenna-constrained: one to three antennas per device is the norm.
In light of this challenge, we propose novel methods to dramatically improve IoT networks' spatial awareness of nearby mobile devices, RFID-tagged IoT objects, and building tomography. Continuous Spatial Awareness (CoSA) anticipates a future where the infrastructure uses advanced wireless techniques to continuously and seamlessly track IoT objects and map our world.
The Continuous Spatial Awareness (CoSA) project aims to dramatically improve computer networks' spatial awareness of nearby vehicular and mobile devices, RFID-tagged IoT objects, and building tomography to enhance their localization capabilities, network performance, and network reliability.