When: 9am-12pm, Saturday April 28, 2007

Where: 32-D463/Star, MIT

This tutorial includes a hands-on introduction and guide to the use and deployment of sensornet research tools from Microsoft Research (MSR): SensorMap and MSR Sense toolkit. SensorMap is a research portal that lets users visualize and query real-time sensornet data using a geographical interface such as Windows Live Local and allows data owners to easily publish their live data using a web service interface. The toolkit is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network.

Note: Attendees wishing to install the software provided at the tutorial should come prepared with a PC running Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista. Visual Studio 2005 or Visual C# Express (free) is required for the last segment of the tutorial since it involves hands-on programming. Some knowledge of C# and web services will be advantageous, but any object-oriented programming experience should suffice. Attendees without such a machine will still be able to follow the tutorial presentations and/or work with a fellow attendee with an appropriate PC.

Agenda: (provisional)

8:00-9:00: Breakfast.

9:00-10:00: SensorMap and Toolkit Overview.

10:00-10:15: Create publishing accounts. Toolkit installation.

BREAK

10:30-11:00: Hands-on 1: Using Toolkits. (Attendees will be provided a temporary sensor network to use with the toolkit. Windows XP or Vista computer required for installation.)

11:00-11:45: Hands-on 2: Program using SensorMap APIs. (Attendees will be provided a temporary sensor to publish to SensorMap. Visual Studio 2005 or Visual C# Express (free) required for programming.)

11:45-12:00: Q&A. Wrap up.

Speakers: Jie Liu, Suman Nath, and Aman Kansal.

Registration: The tutorial is free. But registration is required. Early registration deadline is 4/15/2007. We cannot guarantee acceptance after the deadline, if the lecture hall has any capacity limit. 

For IPSN attendees, we encourage you to register via IPSN registration site. If you are coming only for the tutorial, please send the following information in an email to smtutreg (AT) microsoft.com.

• Name:
• Institute:
• Title:
• Contact phone number:
• Contact email address:
• Laptop Configuration: OS and C# development envionment.

For travel and lodging information, please check the IPSN conference page.