Aggregate.Org Sensors

This page serves as an index to the primary sensors in areas managed by members of KAOS within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Kentucky. These and other sensors serve several purposes:

Make it easier to find group members. It is surprisingly awkward to find people when group resources are spread across several physically-distinct areas.
Provide security. It's a tradeoff, but we like cameras and other sensors better than extensive use of locks -- they are less disruptive to our research
It's research too. We also are using the sensors to develop and test various new technologies, primarily relating to camera control and processing of digital images.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky allows recording of images where there is no expectation of privacy and allows recording of sounds with notice posted. Appropriate notice is posted near the outside handle on the door to each sensed area.

Technical notes:

Most images on this page were captured using D-Link DCS-900 network cameras, some of which are fitted with peephole "door viewer" lenses that provide approximately 175 degree field of view fisheye images
The high-resolution fisheye at the bottom of this page is from a Nikon 950 digital still camera... which has taken several million images thus far, but keeps on clicking
Some images are now using HDR capture techniques; for example, the image at the top of this page has been composed from a series of different exposures

301 DVT (859 257 9868)

Secondary KAOS machine room; home of the "safe playground" cluster ATU (Athlons Transported Upstairs), which was constructed using half of the nodes from KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2).

Sensor data not available at this time.

302 DVT (859 257 9868)

KAOS software development laboratory. This room houses workstations and serves as a meeting room for the group.

469 FPAT (859 257 4701)

Office of Professor Hank Dietz.

577 FPAT

The OCL (Open Computing Laboratory). This workstation laboratory is open in several ways: the systems run open source software, the hardware is open for access (e.g., for real-time interfacing and similar experiments), and the lab is kept physically open 24/7.

672 FPAT (859 257 9695)

Primary KAOS machine room; home of KASY0 (Kentucky ASYmmetric zero). KLA (Kentucky Leftover Athlons), which was constructed using half of the nodes from KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2), also is housed in this room, primarly to serve as a thickly-connected disk farm for KASY0.

695 FPAT

The KAOS hardware fab and maintenance room. This is a little room that we use to build and test hardware, such as custom network boards, etc.

Sensor data not available at this time.

The only thing set in stone is our name.