Gigascale System Design of Sensor Networks for Active Volcanoes

In this paper, an intelligent surveillance system using sensor networks for monitoring active volcanoes has been presented. The authors combine sensor network system engineering with systems-on-chip implementation to develop a gigascale integrated surveillance system called sensor networks for active volcanoes (SNAV). The paper reports SNAV specific science-related requirements and system-level operations for this surveillance system. The paper also presents the SNAV system-on-chip implementation. The success of this work enables low-power, low-cost sensor networks for the intelligent surveillance systems