Product design of a sensor cloud: EnviS

Co-led the industrial design with Anton van Maanen — Anton focused on the 3D shell design and threading, while I led the hardware prototyping (Arduino, ribbon cables, electronics housing), alongside visualisations for the demo video and communications of the concept. The research team published the underlying sensor cloud framework.

EnviS is an integration of configurable wireless sensor network modules with cloud-based web services, which include a database that stores real-time readings from multiple sensor types and a mobile application which provides both historical and real-time data visualisation of sensor readings within user-modelled three-dimensional maps of indoor spaces.

The project was undertaken through RMIT University.

Nishant Sony, Mars Dela Pena, Abdelsalam Ahmed Saad, Bo Wu, Yury Petrov
School of Computer Science and Information Technology

Daniel Kerris, Anton van Maanen
Product Development Team

Dr. Flora Salim
Supervisor

EnviS was the Tertiary Post-Graduate Winner at the 2014 iAwards. The iAwards honours both companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation as well as leading professionals across the ICT industry. Most importantly, the iAwards recognises the achievements of home-grown Australian innovators.

• Published in IEEE MDM 2014 (15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Brisbane) — pages 329–332
• IEEE: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6916938
• ACM: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MDM.2014.47