N-CET: Network-centric exploitation and tracking

Energy-Efficient Real-Time Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…Princeton researchers in the ZebraNet project [11] tracked Kenyan zebras generating over 62,000 sensor readings. The U.S. Air Force's N-CET [13] project tracked humans and vehicles moving through an area.…”

Multiscale Architectures and Parallel Algorithms for Video Object Tracking

“…Power efficient real-time flux tensor processing is required in a variety of operational scenarios including video-based net-centric exploitation and tracking on airborne platforms and ground-based multi-sensor imaging for force protection. Synergistic collaborative computation exploiting net-centricity can enable distributed interacting compute and sensor nodes to accomplish mission goals more effectively in terms of survivability, ease of fielding, and reconfigurability using a modular joint information management system 30 (see Figure 1). Such agile sensor networks need to be further enhanced to minimize overall power consumption under the constraint of still yielding the best exploitable information in a timely manner.…”

“…offers a number of advantages including low cost for the SONY PS-3 hardware solution, scalability to a larger number of cores using the IBM QS22 Blade for handling higher video processing workloads (but at higher cost per core), low power consumption and compact footprint for embedded sensor pod systems such as those envisioned for N-CET. 30 Net-centric exploitation of video sensors requires sensor management and control, monitoring and managing data collection for on-board sensors, efficient communication protocols for publishing data streams for processing as shown in Figure 1.…”

“…N-CET looks at survivability to operate close-in, ease of fielding, and reconfigurability. 30 Each N-CET node provides various information brokering services including data management, data federation among nodes, fusion of remote information with local information, and sensor control.…”