Datastream Systems

Animal observation can be improved significantly with the help of modern technology.  Especially in the case of bats this has been quite difficult in the past, because they are active only at night, and they must not carry a transmitter heavier than 10% of their own body weight.  The progress of micro electronics has made it possible to build complete computers that fulfill these requirements.  They do not just send beacons, but data.  The ground station receives these data and evaluates them.  That begins with the position of the bat, continues with meetings with other bats (of particular interest: mother and child), and ends with body temperature, pulse, and other biosensors.  The data are collected and evaluated as a whole.  Unfortunately, they are rather imprecise and also flawed.  So it is a substantial issue to clean them first.  The far-end goal of the project is to capture only data actually needed for the evaluations given, thus saving energy and allowing to observer the bats even longer.

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DSAM is a middleware for managing global data-stream queries. These queries are distributed to heterogeneous platforms including self-contained data-stream management systems and sensor networks. The project's main goal is to automatically distribute and deploy a platform-independent model, i.e. a global query, to heterogeneous and distributed stream-processing components. Queries are defined in a declarative abstract query language. They are partitioned according to cost models and topological constraints. DSAM then generates queries in the target systems' query language, each implementing a partial query. For sensor networks, we additionally adopt source-code generation. Further challenges are monitoring, efficient metadata management and decentralized query management, especially in the context of wireless sensor networks.

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