Hazard Aware Spaces
While considering all existing hazards for humans due to natural disastrous events, failures of human hazard attention or intentional harmful behaviors of humans, we address the problem of building hazard aware spaces (HAS) to alert innocent people. We propose building a prototype HAS system for detecting fire, vision impairing light, earthquake, extreme sonic waves and dangerous gases using wireless "smart" micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors, such as, the MICA sensors, and spectral cameras, for instance, thermal infrared (IR), visible spectrum and multi-spectral cameras.

We have identified the following system components including (1) sensing of point and raster measurements, (2) wireless data transmission to control wireless sensor network and collect measurement information, (3) sensor data fusion by obtaining temporal (synchronization), spatial (position calibration) and spectral (spectral calibration) information about each measurement, (4) data analysis to detect hazardous events and (5) event confirmation by changing wireless sensor positions and camera orientation. We have investigated the components 1-3 in the past. With our focus on components 4-5, we propose to research and develop a prototype of hazard aware spaces.
 
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Peter Bajcsy, NCSA

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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.