Waggle
Formal
An open platform for intelligent attentive sensors.
Practical
Computer scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory are working with a range of stakeholders, from academics to urban planners, to deploy easy-to-use sensor networks for better understanding the built and natural environments in which we live. That work has evolved into a platform called Waggle, named after the figure-eight dance that honeybees perform to communicate the location of nectar, pollen and water sources to other bees in a hive. Waggle is now being deployed in a fast-growing list of projects in which sensors are utilized to track environmental factors in both urban and rural or agricultural environments.
