Bunet

image courtesy: http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/wiki/index.php/BusNet

Busnet is a WASN application which is done by the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). Its main goal is to gather environmental information over the large geographical area. In such application there is a major problem that the researchers have to face. To collect the information from wide area they have to maintain large number of sensors.

UCSC researchers came up with a smart solution for that. They build up their WSN over the public transport network in the country. It means they mounted the sensor on the buses and buses travel over the area and collect environmental data. The collected data are transfered to the base stations which is situated in the bus-stations when the busses reached to a particular bus-station.

The Busnet is enhanced its functionality by adding road surface monitoring application. It provides the road surface information about the route that the sensor traveled.

People who make effort on this project

• Dr. Kasun De Zoysa
• Dr. Chamath Keppitiyagama
• Mr. Gihan P. Seneviratne
• Mr. T.G.T.A.Bandara
• Mr. Kenneth Manjula Thilakarathna
• Mr. Lakshaman
• Mr. W. W. A. T. Shihan

For more details visit

• http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/wiki/index.php/BusNet
• http://www.dritte.org/nsdr07/files/papers/s5p1.pdf