"Welcome to my webpage. 

We will interact with a number of useful 'things' throughout the day. 
Such things (10 per person) will have sensing, communication and actuation that create a network of cooperatingobjects. I envisage People and intelligent Things connected through the social Web. My holistic view of the Web of People and their Things is <here>." I have just joined Globosense, a start-up pursuing this vision. 




    Projects

  • Sentient Sports

    (2004-2010) Wireless sensor systems to enhance the performance of elite athletes. This is part of the EPSRC SESAME. more...

  • Sentient Healthcare

    (2008-present) Pattern matching techniques for automatic classification of types of physical activities in populations. more...

    • CSK Energy

      (2008-2010) We are using wireless sensing systems to measure and give real-time feedback on the energy consumption of the Computer Lab and residential homes. more...

    Wireless Flow Sensing

    (2009-2010) System design for wireless flow pressure sensing.more...


      Output

    • Publications

      Papers and book chapters published. more...

    • Open source

      Cambridge Sensor Kit (CSK) and IMote2 Linux. more...


      Myself

    • Résumé

      Born in Brasil, at south sea coastline. more...

    • Outdoor Sports

      Kitesurf, surf and sailing.more...

    • Social Networking

      Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Brazilians in Orkut.

      Previous Research

    • Embedded WiSeNts

      (2004-2006) A research roadmap on wireless sensors for the European Commission.more...

    • Peer-to-peer - Internet Coordinates 

      (2000-2005) A distributed coordinate system for the Internet to estimate network latency between any two hosts. more...

    • Distributed Metering

      (1999-2003) PhD thesis on automated tariff-related metering. of networked services more...

    Teaching

    • Supervision material

      Digital Communications II 
      Advanced System Topics 
      Distributed Systems (local Intranet) more.







    Latest updates

    • Photos from the space showing night time energy usage!

      From this amazing picture taken from the space we can see the UK, the British Channel, and the continental Europe. 





      Posted 15 Nov 2010 14:42 by Marcelo Pias
    • Globosense wins Whitehall contract to drive reductions in the government's carbon emissions
      ideaSpace member Globosense is one of nine companies chosen from 125 competition entrants to demonstrate cutting edge energy efficiency technologies in four Whitehall buildings. This Energy-Efficient Whitehall initiative is backed by the Technology Strategy Board and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) who are jointly investing £2 million in the nine pilot projects. Chosen technologies range from Globosense's unique energy monitoring & control system to phase-change ceiling tiles which address local overheating.
      More here: 
      Posted 9 Nov 2010 04:09 by Marcelo Pias
    • Jon Crowcroft's video on the EPSRC INTelligent Energy awaRE NETworks

      Jon Crowcroft at Cambridge University recorded a video on their EPSRC INTERNET project to complement the presentation I made in Brazil in August 2010 on my vision "Web of People and Things":


      'The vision of the 'INTelligent Energy awaRE NETworks' (INTERNET) project is to reduce the carbon footprint of ICT networks by at least an order of magnitude - along with a corresponding reduction in non-renewable energy consumption. This will enable comparable growth beyond the current energy barrier.' 


      You can watch Jon's video on the INTelligent Energy awaRE NETworks: Jon Crowcroft video INTERNET project


      Official EPSRC INTERNET web site



      My vision on the Web of People and Things is here: WPT





      Posted 7 Nov 2010 15:54 by Marcelo Pias
    • Web of People and Things: Horizontal Cut Across Vertical Sensor Applications

      This was part of talk I gave in Brazil at UFRGS, August 2010. It provides a vision for research and development in wireless sensor network based on my personal experience over the past 6 years in multi-disciplinary application-led research. 
      These slides are in Brazilian Portuguese. A version in English will be available very soon. 

      Web of People and their Things - English

      Today we carry with us one or two personal devices, say a mobile phone and laptop. But we interact with a number of other useful 'things' during the course of the day in our house, in our car and at work place. In the very near future, these things will have sensing, communication and actuation capabilities that form a network of Cooperating Objects (COs). Sensors and actuators in our house will monitor our energy consumption and switch on and off our electrical appliances to save energy, and sensing devices we wear will give us personalised feedback on our gym programme, or how much we have been exercising in the week. The European Commission estimate around 70 billion of such objects by 2016 - an average of 10 'things' per person.


      In this talk I will present a holistic view of the Web of People and their Things  as a horizontal cut across vertical applications. We can only define this enabling platform, however, when we learn sufficiently from deep practical immersion in a couple of sensing projects. This calls for multidisciplinary and application-led research that bring together disciplines such as engineering, computer science, medical, environmental - to cite a few. 


      I will discuss the building blocks of a Web of People and their Things platform, mostly based on my personal experience over the past six years in three wireless sensor network applications developed in Cambridge, UK: on-body sensing for sports (London 2012), physical activity monitoring for healthcare, and smart energy grid. Such applications share technical similarities that range from sensing via low power IP-based wireless sensor networks to data inference for tailored feedback to the end-users and actuation in the environment. The talk is driven by very practical results from real trials with people and their things. 


      Web of People and their Things - Portuguese


      Hoje carregamos no bolso ou mochila dispositivos pessoais como o nosso telefone celular e o notebook. Mas interagimos com uma série de outras "coisas" no decorrer do dia, seja em nossa casa, no carro ou local de trabalho. Num futuro não muito distante, essas "coisas" terão capacidade de sensoriamento, comunicação sem fio e atuação no ambiente, formando uma rede de objetos cooperativos ("Cooperating Objects"). Sensores  e atuadores em nossa casa medirão o consumo de energia, e poderão desligar os eletrônicos ou eletrodomésticos fora de uso para economizar energia. Sensores em nossa roupa ou tênis nos fornecerão "feedback" em tempo real sobre o programa de exercícios da academia ou o quanto de atividade física estamos fazendo na semana. A Comunidade Européia estima em torno de 70 bilhões destes objetos cooperativos em 2016 - uma média de 10 "coisas inteligentes" por pessoa. Nesta palestra apresenta-se uma visão holística da "Web of People and their Things" como um corte horizontal em aplicações verticais de redes de sensores sem fio (RSSFs). Para definir claramente essa plataforma precisamos primeiramente obter experiência prática com a imersão em aplicações reais. Isso requer pesquisa multi-disciplinar incluindo áreas como a Engenharia, Ciência da Computação, Ciências Médicas, Meio Ambiente e outras. Serão discutidos os componentes de uma plataforma "Web of People and their Things" com base na experiência do palestrante em três aplicações de cunho prático para RSSFs desenvolvidas em Cambridge (Inglaterra): (i) rede de sensores no corpo para atletas (Olimpíadas - Londres 2012), (ii) monitoramento de atividade física na área da Saúde Pública e (iii) rede de energia inteligente ("smart energy grid"). Tais aplicações têm semelhanças técnicas que vão desde o sensoriamento com RSSFs baseadas em IP até a inferência sobre os dados para o "feedback" personalizado em tempo real aos usuários e atuação no meio. Serão apresentados resultados práticos obtidos do uso diário destes sistemas por grupos de usuários nos últimos seis anos.


      Full set of slides: Web of People and Things  

      Overview slides: Overview slides only

      Jon Crowcroft's video to complement these slides: Vision on Carbon Neutral Networks 


      Posted 10 Feb 2011 15:37 by Marcelo Pias
    • Good news: Generous support from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

      The Open-Source CSK Energy project has just received an Amazon Web Services (AWS) research grant to support its back-end infrastructure work. 

      Posted 17 Jun 2010 03:52 by Marcelo Pias
    • Linux for Embedded Systems
      I have been a supporter for Linux on embedded systems since started working with sensing in sports (2006). Linux is flexible and more intuitive for development compared to other operating systems for WSN like TinyOS. Linux is picking up now with many distributions for ARM-based embedded systems and mobile phones (OpenMoko, Google Android). With Jonathan Cameron, I have been involved in the project of organising Linux related information for the Crossbow wireless sensor network platform (IMote2). More info here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/imote2-linux/index.php?title=Main_Page
      Posted 22 May 2010 16:30 by Marcelo Pias
    • OnMe: Real-time Energy Data from my house
      I decided to test on me the wireless sense-actuator systems I have been developing. The first dataset available is the real-time energy consumption feed from my house in Cambridge. The tag names for the individual appliances have been removed for privacy reasons ;)


      Posted 16 Jun 2010 16:51 by Marcelo Pias
    • CSK Energy released as open source
      The CSK Energy project has been designed to be released as an open source platform for accurate energy monitoring in office buildings and residential households. The hardware and software will be made available under GNU license. 
      Posted 22 May 2010 12:28 by Marcelo Pias
    • SESAME - TV documentary filming
      The sensor systems for sports will be presented in a TV channel documentary later this year. The filming happened over last week, and the integrated video and on-body sensor system worked smoothly  ;)  
      Posted 22 May 2010 12:28 by Marcelo Pias
    • On-body sensing - Iterated System Development
      The on-body sensing platform is now in its third version since the development started in late 2007. Over 100 trials with sprinters in the NIAC / Cardiff (National Indoor Athletic Centre) took place already. 
      Posted 22 May 2010 12:29 by Marcelo Pias
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