WiGiT
Project Name: WiGiT
Summary:
Project Purpose: WiGiT is a tool used in improving transformative technologies to create markets, to bridge the gap between wireless network middleware & grid application layers and accelerate commercialization and adoption of new products and services. WiGiT serves industry needs for intra-system, or crossover work bridging the world of grid or cloud computing and wireless Internet, by contributing to open standards and application programming interfaces for wireless grids.
Team Members: Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn, Angela, Piyush Sawant and Varun Putchala
Project Partners: This initiative includes faculty and students from Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, with plans to include other world leading academic institutions. In addition to academic institutions, the WiGiT also includes private sector organizations and corporate partners.
Project Goals: The main goal of the project is to evaluate specifications for possible industry standards in order to scale and integrate the transformative innovation of wireless grids developed in a prior PFI, with specifications and protocols developed in Virginia Tech’s NSF I/UCRC Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology, meshed with technologies and ideas from students, faculty, and companies worldwide.