Milestone #9 Annual (11/1/13-10/31/14) Executive Summary of Accomplishments
Edward A. Lee

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Edward A. Lee. "Milestone #9 Annual (11/1/13-10/31/14) Executive Summary of Accomplishments". Technical report, TerraSwarm Research Center, February, 2015.

Abstract
Today, large numbers of sensors and actuators embedded into innovative devices are being introduced into our connected world at an accelerating rate. This sensory swarm, or the swarm for short, presents an extension of the infosphere (today embodied in the cloud) into the physical world. The swarm gives the cloud eyes, ears, hands, and feet, enabling services that are directly embedded in the physical world rather than just in the cyber world. There is no question that the pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors and actuators into the physical world offers huge potential to address societal problems, to improve quality of life, and to smooth the boundaries between the human and the cyber worlds. But it comes with enormous challenges and risks - both technical and non-technical. The TerraSwarm Research Center is working on the principles and design of an open and universal platform to enable the simple, reliable, and secure deployment and operation of a multiplicity of distributed sense and control applications (which we call swarmlets). Providing access control and resource guarantees is essential to quality of experience and safety. Making the platform open and universal will unleash millions of swarm device and swarmlet developers, just as smart-phone platforms opened the door to millions of app developers.

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  Executive Summary of Accomplishments</i></a>,
  Technical report,  TerraSwarm Research Center, February,
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  Executive Summary of Accomplishments". Technical
  report,  TerraSwarm Research Center, February, 2015.

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  @techreport{Lee15_Milestone9Annual11113103114ExecutiveSummaryOf,
      author = {Edward A. Lee},
      title = {Milestone \#9 Annual (11/1/13-10/31/14) Executive
                Summary of Accomplishments},
      institution = {TerraSwarm Research Center},
      month = {February},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Today, large numbers of sensors and actuators
                embedded into innovative devices are being
                introduced into our connected world at an
                accelerating rate. This sensory swarm, or the
                swarm for short, presents an extension of the
                infosphere (today embodied in the cloud) into the
                physical world. The swarm gives the cloud eyes,
                ears, hands, and feet, enabling services that are
                directly embedded in the physical world rather
                than just in the cyber world. There is no question
                that the pervasive integration of smart, networked
                sensors and actuators into the physical world
                offers huge potential to address societal
                problems, to improve quality of life, and to
                smooth the boundaries between the human and the
                cyber worlds. But it comes with enormous
                challenges and risks - both technical and
                non-technical. The TerraSwarm Research Center is
                working on the principles and design of an open
                and universal platform to enable the simple,
                reliable, and secure deployment and operation of a
                multiplicity of distributed sense and control
                applications (which we call swarmlets). Providing
                access control and resource guarantees is
                essential to quality of experience and safety.
                Making the platform open and universal will
                unleash millions of swarm device and swarmlet
                developers, just as smart-phone platforms opened
                the door to millions of app developers.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/480.html}
  }
  

Posted by Barb Hoversten on 29 Jan 2015.
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