Homeland Security Activities of Cal-(IT)2
UC President’s Board on Science and Innovation
Oakland, CA
September 11, 2002
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technologies
Harry E. Gruber Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
How Can the “Always-On” Internet Enhance
Capabilities for Homeland Security?
• Three Tier System
– Wireless SensorNets Brings Data to Repositories
– Collaborative Crisis Management Data Centers
– Remote Wireless Devices Interrogate Databases
• Will Bring About a New Meaning to “Dual-Use”
– Civilian
– Scientific and Engineering Research
– Commercial Business
– Military
– External Defense
– Homeland Security
• Cal-(IT)2 is Working Closely with Campus Efforts
www.calit2.net/news/2001/10-26-sddtarticle.html
There is an Increasing Media Coverage of
Homeland Security Research at Cal-(IT)2
From the Cal-(IT)2
Web Site
www.calit2.net
Sept. 8, 2002
SensorNets:
A Fast Growing Field of Academic Research
February 20-21, 2002
Sponsored by Cal-(IT)2 and UCSD
www.soe.ucsd.edu/Research_Review/
MEMS & Nanotechology Remote Sensors
Are Rapidly Being Invented
For Volatile Organic Compounds and Chemical Agents
“Smart Dust”
“Nanowires”
Silicon Photonic Crystals
Polysilole
Mike Sailor, et al, UCSD Chemistry, Cal-(IT)2
Low Power Biological, Chemical, Pollutant,
Magnetic, Particulate Sensor Development
• Desired Properties:
– Low False Alarm Rate, Sensitive
– Miniature, Portable, Lower Cost
Detection of Explosives
TNT-contaminated thumbprint on a
transit ticket from the San Francisco
BART line
Handheld Nanosensor Device
for Sarin Nerve Agent
Developed for DARPA
Mike Sailor, et al, UCSD Chemistry, Cal-(IT)2
Data Mining Across Agency Stovepipes
Is an Essential Next Step
• Large Cultural Barriers to Sharing of Data
• Needed Infrastructure Investments and Training
INFORMATION
SOURCES
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
Federal
State
Local
INTEGRATED
INTELLIGENCE
SYSTEM
PUBLIC
HEALTH
SECURITY
CENIC and CISI Have Partnered on
Optical Network Which Links to All Counties
Portland
CENIC/Carrier POP
Seattle
UCD
Carrier OpAmp Site
UCD Med Ctr
Sacramento
UCB
Backbone Carrier Fiber
Emeryville
LBNL
UCSF
Mission Bay
Optional Carrier Fiber
San
Francisco
LLNL
Denver
Stanford
Palo
Alto
SLAC
NASA
Ames
Campus
Research
Park
Sunnyvale
UCSB
CalTech
Campus Network MPOE
JPL
Santa
Barbara
Campus Fiber
UCLA
Los Angeles
818 W 7th
UCR
Last Mile Fiber
USC
Anaheim
Santa Fe
ISI
Qwest SD
1.5 Miles est.
UCSD
SDSU
SDSC
4 Miles est.
SPAWAR
Pt Loma
Future Last Mile Fiber
Backbone 10Gig 
UCI
Thornton and
VA Hospitals
Campus-MAN Demark
Hillcrest
Hospital
Pacific Light Rail 10G 
Planning for Optically Linking
Crisis Management Control Rooms in California
California Office of Emergency Services,
Sacramento, CA
Distributed Interactive Video Arrays
Coronado Bridge Demonstration May 15, 2002
UCSD
~3 miles
Mt. Soledad
~12 miles
Coronado Bridge
• UCSD Team Members
–
–
–
–
ROADnet Team
SDSC, HPWREN
SIO, Seismic Sensors
Structural Engineering,
Bridge Sensors
– CVRR Lab, Video Arrays
• ONR, SPAWAR
Source: Mohan Trivedi, UC San Diego
Putting the Coronado Bridge On-line
With the HPWREN
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/020524.html
Multi-Media Control Room
UCSD Computer Vision and Robotics Research Lab
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/020524.html
Reworking a Campus Education
Communication System for Disaster Care
“Campus Map”
Adapted to
Display Hot and Warm
Zones and the
Locations
of Patients.
“Sites” and
“Buddies” Data
Structures
Adapted
To “Patient List”
And
“Care Resources”
Active Disaster
Care System
“Instant Messaging”
Adapted for
“Digital Graffiti”
Asynchronous
Adapted to Display
Provider
Patient Alerts
Communications
to ICC or Other Providers
Improving Emergency Response
With the “Always-On Internet”
Transportation Assets
With Mobile Internet
Bubble
2-Way Telemedicine
Control Room
GPS Tracking
High Bandwidth
Hot Zone
Hospital #1
WMD Attack
Prevailing wind
Stadium
First Responder PDAs
Electronic
record of
field care
Incident
command
center
Field
Treatment
Station
Mobile Bubbles
Patient RF IDs
Transport
station
Compromised
Transportation
Corridor
Warm
zone
Hospital #2
Source: Dr. Leslie Lenert, UCSD SOM