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UA Engineer Receives $500k for Wireless Sensor Networks Research

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University of Arkansas engineer Jing Yang has received a $500,000 federal grant to further develop sensing and transmission systems for energy-harvesting, wireless sensor networks, the university said Tuesday.

Yang is an assistant professor in the UA College of Engineering, and her grant is a Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.

Energy-harvesting, wireless sensor networks are systems that include collaborating embedded devices, such as sensor nodes, that are capable of sensing, computation and communication, according to a university news release.

Applications include environmental monitoring in homes or factories where the sensors perform long-range communications that are impossible or impractical to implement with the use of wires.

Yang is working on a set of algorithms that will lead to the design of new systems that can dynamically and intelligently allocate scarce energy to collect and transmit the most informative data samples, according to the release.

Yang’s research will improve the design and deployment of sensor networks that perform critical functions related to health care and environmental monitoring, surveillance and disaster relief, the UA said. 

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