Project Leader(s): Professor Margaret Bell, Professor Phil Blythe
Sponsors: EPSRC/DfT
Partners: Imperial College, Cambridge University, University of Leeds, University of Southampton
External Website: http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/message/
Start/end dates: October 2006 – September 2009
Contact: fabio.galatioto@ncl.ac.uk
MESSAGE was a co-funded EPSRC/DfT collaborative project between 5 UK Universities (Imperial, Cambridge, Newcastle, Leeds and Southampton) supported by 19 stakeholders representing the ITS profession. Newcastle’s work focused on the development, construction and evaluation of large scale wireless sensor networks based on small, low cost sensor packages popularly referred to as “motes”. Alongside this, the group investigated how increasing spatial and temporal resolution in sensor data can improve urban traffic management compared to the sparse coverage provided by a small number of high-cost monitoring stations typical of most cities.
The use of higher spatio-temporal resolution for enhancing the accuracy of and validate models of dispersion, traffic flow and noise propagation was also investigated. A UTMC compliant database was developed to handle and present the massive volumes of dynamic, static and geographically distributed data generated. The outputs of MESSAGE (Mote, Model, Platform) have been recently enhanced and used by Local Authorities and researchers since the project concluded.
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