Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring

We propose the new concept of selforganising computational structures — simple distributed nodes that can pool their computational resources on the fly. We argue that distributed monitoring solutions with this ability will be able to achieve high density data sampling over a wide area whilst at the same time be capable of analysing the data in real-time. We identify associated research questions and problems, and explain how we plan to test our vision in the lab before deploying it in the field.