Test of Time Award

SenSys

ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

The Test of Time Award was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field.

Call for nominations for SenSys Test of Time Awards

Please send paper nominations for the 2024 SenSys Test of Time award. Nominations can include any paper published at SenSys in 2014 or earlier. Nominations should be sent to Jie Liu on or before September 30, 2024.

2023

21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Istanbul, Turkiye, November 13-15, 2023

Committee: Jie Gao, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Lohar Thiele.

Awardees:

Samuli Hemminki, Petteri Nurmi, Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland) “Accelerometer-based transportation mode detection on smartphones,” 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Rome, Italy, November, 2013 (ACM Digital Library)

“A pioneer work on smartphone sensing which foresees years of innovative work of integrated sensing and learning from wireless portable devices."

Lufeng Mo (Zhejiang Forestry University), Yuan He, Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technoloty), Jizhong Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Shaojie Tang, Xiangyang Li (Illinois Institue of Technology), Guojun Dai (Hangzhou Dianzi University) “Canopy closure estimates with GreenOrbs: sustainable sensing in the forest,” 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Berkeley, CA, November, 2009 (ACM Digital Library)

“A testbed system that was later transformed into a platform with high educational and industrial impacts in Asian IoT communities."

2022

20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boston, USA, November 6-9, 2022

Ning Xu (University of Southern California, USA), Sumit Rangwala (USC, USA), Krishna Chintalapudi (University of Southern California, USA), Deepak Ganesan (UCLA, USA), Alan Broad (Crossbow, USA). Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California, USA), Deborah Estrin (UCLA, USA). A wireless sensor network for structural monitoring (2004).

"For its impact on early sensor networks and its broader impact in the area of structural health monitoring in the civil engineering domain."

Adam Dunkels, Oliver Schmidt, Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Muneeb Ali (TU Delft). Protothreads: simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems (2006).

"For providing, through ContikiOS, a long-standing foundation to countless academic and industrial low-power networked embedded systems."

Omprakash Gnawali (USC), Rodrigo Fonseca (Yahoo/Brown), Kyle Jamieson (University College London), David Moss (Rincon Research), Philip Levis (Stanford). Collection tree protocol (2009).

"For its impact on low-power networked embedded systems, including enabling real-world deployments, inspiring standards, and serving as the state-of-the-art baseline for many years."

Octav Chipara (Washington Univesity in St. Louis), Chenyang Lu (Washington Univesity in St. Louis), Thomas C. Bailey (Washington University School of Medicine), Gruia-Catalin Roman (Washington University in St. Louis). Reliable Clinical Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks: Experience in a Step-down Hospital Unit (2010).

"For expanding sensing network systems into the medical setting and showing their challenges and promises in this domain."

Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan), Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (University of California, Berkeley), Yin Chen (Johns Hopkins University), Chieh-Jan (Mike) Liang (Johns Hopkins University), Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University). Design and Evaluation of a Versatile and Efficient Receiver-Initiated Link Layer for Low-Power Wireless (2010).

"For pioneering the use of synchronous transmissions in low-power protocols by exploiting their benefits at the MAC layer and pushing the limits of radio operation."

Pengfei Zhou (Nanyang Technological University), Yuanqing Zheng (Nanyang Technological University), Zhenjiang Li (Nanyang Technological University), Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University), Guobin Shen (Microsoft Research Asia). ODetector: A Generic Service for Indoor Outdoor Detection (2012).

"For contributions to intelligent moI bile location services with enduring commercial adoption and successful widespread technology transfer."

Federico Ferrari (ETH Zurich), Marco Zimmerling (ETH Zurich), Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich). Low-Power Wireless Bus (2012).

"For rethinking the networking architecture of low-power wireless systems and offering a simpler and more efficient flooding-based alternative to mainstream network stacks."

2019

17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, New York City, USA, November 10-13, 2019

Committee: Chenyang Lu, Koen Langendoen, and Mani Srivastava.

Awardees:

Prashanth Mohan, Venkata Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee “Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones,” 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Raleigh, NC, November, 2008 (ACM Digital Library)

“For introducing the ground-breaking concept of using smartphones to monitor road and traffic conditions at low-cost."

Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson “VTrack: Accurate, Energy-aware Road Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones,” 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Berkeley, CA, November, 2009 (ACM Digital Library)

“For pioneering methods for reliably and efficiently inferring vehicle trajectory and travel time using smartphone sensors, and for influencing the commercialization of smartphone-based vehicle telematics."

2018

16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Shenzhen, China, November 4-7, 2018

Committee: Jie Liu, Prabal Dutta, and Niki Trigoni.

Awardees:

Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristóf Fodor, Ronald Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi, Shane B Eisenman, Xiao Zheng, Andrew T. Campbell “Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the Cenceme Application,” 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Raleigh, NC, November, 2008 (ACM Digital Library)

“For pioneering mobile-phone-based sensing systems for human social behaviors."

Jonathan Hui and David Culler “IP is Dead, Long Live IP for Wireless Sensor Networks,” 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Raleigh, NC, November, 2008 (ACM Digital Library)

“For for its impact on the network foundation of Internet of Things."

2017

15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2017

Committee: Prabal Dutta (University of California, Berkeley), Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) (chair), Kay Roemer (TU Graz, Austria)

Awardees:

Pei Zhang, christopher Sadler, Stephen Lyon, and Margaret Martonosi: “Hardware Design Experiences in Zebranet,” 2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Baltimore, MD, November, 2004 (ACM Digital Library)

“For pioneering low power design of sensing devices."

2016

14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Stanford, CA, USA, November 14-16, 2016

Committee: Wen Hu (University of New South Wales), Polly Huang (National Taiwan University) (chair), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt), Kay Romer (TU Graz), Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University)

No recipient in 2016

2015

13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Seoul, Korea, November 1-4, 2015

Committee: Polly Huang (National Taiwan University), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt) (chair) , Kay Romer (TU Graz), Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University)

Awardees:

Robert Szewczyk, Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, John Anderson, David Culler: “An analysis of a large scale habitat monitoring application,” 2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Baltimore, MD, November, 2004 (ACM Digital Library) (Google Scholar)

“The paper presented one of the first systematically studied out-in-the-wild longer-term deployments of sensor networks. It discussed a wide variety of WSN challenges from high-level architecture down to MAC, routing and energy. It also set the stage for practical deployment issues like packaging, stability and up-time. Hence, the paper provided a great road-map for the community.”

2014

12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Memphis, TN, USA, November 3-6, 2014

Committee: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College), Kay Römer (Technical University of Graz), Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia)

Awardees:

Joseph Polastre, Jason Hill, David Culler (University of California, Berkeley): “Versatile Low Power Media Access for Wireless Sensor Networks,” 2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Baltimore, MD, November, 2004 (ACM Digital Library) (Google Scholar)

“The Berkeley MAC (B-MAC) was a pioneering contribution to media access control in wireless sensor networks. B-MAC and its underlying low-power listening principle became a facto standard in operational sensor networks spawning a sub-field of research in the SenSys community.”

Miklós Maróti, Branislav Kusy, Gyula Simon, Ákos Lédeczi (Vanderbilt University): “The flooding time synchronization protocol,” 2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Baltimore, MD, November, 2004 (ACM Digital Library) (Google Scholar)

“The Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP) makes a fundamental contribution to sensor networks and serves as a foundation for other advances in time synchronization protocols. Without accurate time dissemination and maintenance, sensor network applications would not have evolved so rapidly.”