About Us
The Global Sensor Networks project (GSN) was started in Nov. of 2004 by Ali Salehi under supervision of Prof. Karl Aberer at LSIR Laboratory, at EPFL. The project evolved very quickly because of its promising features (e.g., sensor network deployment without programming) and currently there are several labs in EPFL and other universities using it as their platform for publishing/processing/sharing/etc. of the data received from their sensor networks.
The project is currently backed by research teams in EPFL (Prof. Karl Aberer) and DERI (Prof. Manfred Hauswirth) with several postdocs and PhD students contributing to the project regularly.
The complete list of the people involved and contributed to GSN (code, design, documentation, bug fix, virtual sensors, wrappers, web interface, etc.):
- Ali Salehi (PhD, Project manager, system architect)
- Prof. Karl Aberer (Project supervision, models and formal definitions in data processing and timing)
- Prof. Manfred Hauswirth (Key improvements on design issues and applications)
- Dr. Andreas Wombacher (CSV Wrapper, RRD Exporter, Wiki integration [Swiss Experiment], Semantics,etc).
- Dr. Sebastian Michel (Meta data integration, Wiki integration)
- Dr. Yongluan Zhou (Window management, Data storage engineering)
- Wojciech Galuba (PhD, visualization, Inter-GSN protocol issues, and general GSN applications)
- Oana Jurca (PhD, Publish/Subscribe over GSN)
- Gearoid Hynes (PhD)
- Lei Shu (PhD) (Multimedia wrappers, RSS wrapper)
- Antonio Aguilari (PhD)
- Clément Beffa (Web interface, GPS Wrapper,etc)[retired]
- Jerome Rousselot (PhD)[retired]
Important: If you have any question which can be shared among other users, please send it to the mailing list. To join the mailing lists, refer to:,
gsn-users or gsn-devel. If your inquery doesn't fit any of our mailing lists, you can also contact us by email:
ali_salehi@users.sourceforge.net
For inquiries about GSN, mailing lists are strongly recommended.
The GSN project itself is supported in part by Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS), a center supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number 5005-67322 and by the Lion project supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant no. SFI/02/CE1/I131.
