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Embedding the Physical World  UCLA's Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise developing wireless sensor systems and applying this revolutionary technology to radically transform critical scientific and societal applications. Expanding on the concept of the Internet, these large-scale, distributed systems, composed of smart wireless sensors and actuators embedded in the physical world, will eventually connect the entire physical world to the virtual world.
CENS is one of six National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers established in 2002, and is projected to receive $40 million in core funding from the NSF over 10 years. CENS has successfully competed for substantial supplementary funding from both the NSF and other federal agencies to support new research activities generated within the Center. A truly interdisciplinary venture, CENS has also received institutional funding to support the activities of the more than 25 UCLA faculty, 20 graduate and 65 undergraduate students from disciplines across campus, as well as faculty and students from UC Merced, UC Riverside, the University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles, the James Reserve, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.
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