Here at CESCA, we believe that technological advances have brought us to the threshold of the next revolution in sensing and computing: large-scale distributed embedded systems. These systems consist of large numbers of small computing devices that are networked to perform "intelligent" sensing and interaction with the physical world.

The focus of the center is the development of the enabling technologies such as low power designs, sensors, wireless networking, geo-location, and distributed computing that will support distributed decision-making among hundreds or thousands of networked computing nodes. With our broad interdisciplinary expertise here at Virginia Tech, we have formed research center with the goal to make us a leader in the embedded systems field, both in the underlying core technologies and in the applications they enable and support.