Development of Wireless Sensor Network Research Platforms and Applications through the FP7 ProSense Project

The overall objective of the ProSense project was to improve the research potential and the capability of two research centers in the Western Balkan region, i. e. the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEEIT) at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF) at University of Belgrade, Serbia, and to promote them into wireless sensor networking centers of excellence capable of driving the research agenda and serving as a seed for development of other similar centers in the region. Additionally, there was a selection of two distinguished use cases, one for each centre, as beneficial for application in the corresponding region: emergency/disaster recovery applications (Skopje) and personal health monitoring systems (Belgrade). The applications were successfully implemented and validated. The benefits from the ProSense project are manifold, from the research infrastructure acquired to the expertise and knowledge gathered in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper presents the WSN applications developed at FEEIT within the ProSense project.