About us
The Global Sensor Networks project (GSN) was started in November 2004 by Ali Salehi under supervision of Prof. Karl Aberer at LSIR Laboratory, at EPFL. The project evolved very quickly because of its promising features (e.g., sensor network deployment without programming) and currently there are several labs in EPFL and other universities using it as their platform for publishing/processing/sharing/etc. of the data received from their sensor networks.
The project is currently backed by research and development teams in EPFL (Prof. Karl Aberer with several postdocs, engineers, PhD students and undergraduates contributing to the project regularly).
The project was successively manged by Ali Salehi, Timothée Maret and Sofiane Sarni. Currently, the project is managed by Julien Eberle.
An incomplete list of people who are/were involved and who have contributed to GSN (code, design, documentation, bug fix, virtual sensors, wrappers, web interface, etc.) is given below:
- Dr. Ali Salehi (Founder, Architect and past Project Manager)
- Prof. Karl Aberer (Project supervision, models and formal definitions in data processing and timing)
- Prof. Manfred Hauswirth (Key improvements on design issues and applications)
- Timothée Maret (Software Architect and Engineer, general architecture and implementation of GSN)
- Dr. Sofiane Sarni (Architect, Lead Developer and past Project Manager)
- Julien Eberle (Current Manager, Lead Developer)
- Dr. Jean-Paul Calbimonte (Developer)
- Dr. Andreas Wombacher (CSV Wrapper, RRD Exporter, Wiki integration [Swiss Experiment], Semantics,etc).
- Dr. Sebastian Michel (Meta data integration, Wiki integration)
- Mehdi Riahi (PhD student, general architecture and implementation of GSN)
- Nicholas Dawes (Swiss Experiment Project Manager)
- Lei Shu (PhD candidate) (Multimedia wrappers, RSS wrapper)
- Antonio Aguilari (PhD candidate)
- Behnaz Bostanipour (PhD student, Access control)
- Dr. Athanasios Papaioannou (Access control)
- Dr. Hoyoung Jeung (Data integration)
- Arthur Oviedo
- Ivo Dimitrov (Improvements to the access control, HBase integration)
- Milos Stojanovic
- Alexandru Arion (data cleaning models)
- Saket Sathe (ARMA GARCH models for data cleaning)
- Do Ngoc Hoan (tinyGSN: mobile version of GSN)
- Dr. Jan Beutel (Permasense Branch, ETHZ)
- Mustafa Yücel (Permasense Branch, ETHZ)
- Tonio Gsell (Permasense Branch, ETHZ)
- David Hasenfratz (Permasense Branch, ETHZ)
Important: If you have any question which can be shared among other users, please send it to the mailing list. To join the mailing lists, refer to:, gsn-users or gsn-devel. If your inquery doesn't fit any of our mailing lists, you can also contact us by email: [email protected] For inquiries about GSN, mailing lists are strongly recommended.
The GSN project itself is/was supported in part by the following institutions/projects:
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Distributed Information Systemes (LSIR), Switzerland
- NCCR-MICS, The Mobile Information and Communication Systems, a center supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number 5005-67322
- Lion project, supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant no. SFI/02/CE1/I131.
- Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
- The Swiss Experiment project, and initiative by the Competence Centre Environment and Sustainability (CCES), piloted by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
- The HYDROSYS project (EC FP7 grant 224416, DG INFSO).
- The OSPER project (follow up of Swiss Experiment)
- The OpenSense project
- The OpenIoT project
We thank JetBrains for supporting us with their free IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and PyCharm Professional Edition licenses for open source projects.
