Fingerprinting Seismic Activity across an Internet of Things

In this paper we will present technology designed to detect seismic events using pervasive computing. The project is focused on using low-cost open hardware in developing countries to provide an alternative more sustainable solution to the costly infrastructure used in countries such as Japan. The work involves building a network of embedded computing devices capable of forming a broadcast group across a range of different networking technologies including emerging 802.15.4-based networks. Soft- ware is been developed capable of detecting patterns of network activity which will act as an early identifier of significant seismic events across our network.