Live data from the Matterhorn and Jungfraujoch

24.03.2009 / Bern - SNF
The PermaSense project launched by the Universities of Zurich and Basel, ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne operates two networks of sensors that transmit wireless data. One of these sensor networks is on the Matterhorn. Over a period of several years, the small sensors will collect a series of data that includes rock movements, freezing and thawing processes and temperatures in the bedrock. The second network is on the Jungfraujoch. The technology used by the sensor networks offers new ways of collecting outstanding-quality data in difficult terrain. For example, the data can be used to investigate the processes underlying rock falls in permafrost zones as a result of climate changes. PermaSense is supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research "Mobile Information and Communication Systems", the Federal Office for the Environment and the international "High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat" foundation. Dr. Jan Beutel
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zürich
Tel. +41 44 632 70 32
Fax +41 44 632 10 35
E-Mail: j.beutel [and] ieee (dot) org
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