Welcome to the Pervasive Systems Centre

The Pervasive Systems Centre (PSC) is a research centre in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, UK. Pervasive systems represent a major market for the wireless and mobile electronics industries, and are of critical importance to society and the economy. The PSC tackles the challenges of pervasive computing by drawing on multidisciplinary expertise from across research groups, including sensors, signal processing, communications, system design and computer science.

The PSC is in a unique position to address the major research challenges of pervasive systems, through the necessary breadth of world-leading expertise that is housed in ECS. Research in the PSC is focused on three major research themes: Wireless Sensing and Sensor Networks, Low-Energy Sustainable Systems, and Pervasive Healthcare and Telemedicine. These are represented by the interest groups (WiSE, HCE and LESS respectively). For further information on the activities and research of the PSC, please select a research theme/interest group from those shown below.

This website contains information on the researchers affiliated to the PSC, details of the centre's publications, recent news and upcoming events, and contact details for further information.

News and Upcoming Events

Energy Harvesting Network Conference and Open Access Data Repository

The Energy Harvesting Network is holding its annual one-day conference “Energy Harvesting 2012” on Wednesday 28 March, where it will announce details of the Energy Harvesting Open Access Data Repository. The repository is an online resource for researchers to share detailed data on energy availability and characteristics.

EPSRC has agreed to fund research on Channel Decoder Architectures for Energy-Constrained Wireless Communication Systems

EPSRC has agreed to fund the responsive mode proposal EP/J015520/1, which was submitted by Dr Rob Maunder (PI), Prof. Bashir M. Al-Hashimi (CoI) and Prof. Lajos Hanzo (CoI). The research will be undertaken in collaboration with Nokia Siemens Networks, British Telecom and Cambridge Silicon Radio. The research will consider Channel Decoder Architect...

Seminar: The Hospital of the Future

Dr David Clifton from Oxford, Institute of Biomedical Engineering will be visiting on 4th November, and will deliver a talk on "The Hospital of the Future" in the Mountbatten Seminar room from 11-12.