The SensorFly is a novel low-cost controlled-mobile aerial sensor networking platform developed by Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley students Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, and professor Pei Zhang. A flock of these 29 gram autonomous helicopter nodes with communication, ranging and collaborative path determination capabilities can be extremely useful in sensing survivors after disasters. The team was awarded the Best Demo prize at the 7th annual ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) in Berkeley, California.

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