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Cogent is, of course, primarily an educational facility. Undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students reap the benefits of the wisdom of our internationally-renowned team of researchers to produce some of the most exciting and vibrant pervasive sensing projects undertaken anywhere in the world.
Undergraduates considering embarking on a degree program with Coventry University may well get the opportunity to undertake a second or final year project with us, and even undertake one of our invaluable, Nuffield Foundation supported summer internships.
Each year, Cogent puts forward a catalogue of undergraduate project proposals and each year we attract a number of very capable and enthusiastic project students. We try hard to fuel their enthusiasm and give them access to the equipment and, most importantly, the support that they need.
Some of the students have so much fun, they stay on to study further with Cogent. Mike Allen first came into contact with Cogent as an undergraduate project student and Tessa Daniel worked with us for her masters project before joining as an RA. John Kemp and Dan Goldsmith both completed their final year undergraduate projects with the Centre and are now enrolled as PhD students.
2005 -2007
Dan Goldsmith's final year project with Cogent focused on the development of software that would act as a bridge between Sensor, an in-house WSN simulator and the Gumstix hardware platform. The software, in effect, allows routing protocols simulated in Sensor to run on the gumstix. Dan has since joined Cogent as a PhD student and his research project focuses on the development of middleware services for wireless sensor network systems.
Warwick Brown's project looked at distribution-transparent computing, Linux kernel internals, eCos.
John Kemp's project focused on the visual representation of data from wireless sensor networks.
2009
Ross Wilkins completed a six week internship with Cogent during the summer of 2009. His research focused on the development of indoor environmental monitoring applications using wireless sensor networks. Ross developed a comfort monitoring application using the telosb platform and contributed to Cogent's Live House project. Ross has since joined Cogent as a full time PhD student.
2005-2006
Nuffield Foundation Bursaries
Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries support undergraduates, who are considering research as a career, to work in a research laboratory during the summer vacation before their final year. The bursaries provide student support, normally for a period between 6 and 8 weeks, plus a sum for research expenses. In 2006, 330 bursaries were made available to undergraduates.
In the past, Cogent has obtained a number of bursaries that have supported students working with us on a variety of our Pervasive Sensing projects.
2006 - bursar Dan Goldsmith worked on network routing in wireless sensor networks, funded by Nuffield grant URB/33386. Dan used our simulator, SenSor to implement and compare two popular routing algorithms used in querying systems for sensor networks.
2004-2005- John Kemp (Nuffield grant URB/02016/G) conducted research into simulation of locationing algorithms which compared the time-of-arrival of sound and RF signals; Andy Kelly (Nuffield grant URB/02016/G) worked on real-time operating system support for Cogent sensors and Tim Churchard (Nuffield grant URB/01821/G) worked on ranging estimates between sensor nodes.
More information is available from the Nuffield Foundation site.