Title :
A wireless architecture for distributed sensing/actuation and pre-processing with microsecond synchronization
Author :
Pouliquen, Philippe O. ; Cassidy, Andrew ; Andreou, Andreas G. ; Garreau, Guillaume ; Georgiou, Julius
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We present the design of a distributed data acquisition system for passive and active multi-modal sensing that is capable of synchronized signal sampling within ±5 microseconds. The system is employed in a “wireless cortex” architecture for multi-modal cognitive scene analysis.
Keywords :
data acquisition; signal sampling; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; active multimodal sensing; distributed data acquisition system; distributed sensing; microsecond synchronization; passive multimodal sensing; preprocessing; wireless architecture; wireless cortex; Data acquisition; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency modulation; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Sensors; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2011 45th Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9846-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9847-5
DOI :
10.1109/CISS.2011.5766100
