MARYLAND INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS

MIPS Project Detail:

Berkeley Springs Instruments LLC

Smart Sensor User Interface/Security Optimization

Project #

5219

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Round 

52

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Aug 2013

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Company

Berkeley Springs Instruments LLC

Cumberland

Allegany

 County
, Maryland
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Founded: 

2007

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Company Description: 

BSI designs, manufactures and installs industrial robotics, automation software, and smart sensors for the nuclear, industrial, pharmaceutical, and petroleum markets. One of the company’s primary products is the Eagle Array, an online, automated system used for monitoring corrosion/erosion on high-risk piping to help prevent pipeline failures. The multiple-sensor array is non-intrusive, easily installed and networked to a single Eagle Link gateway.

MIPS Project

Round 

52

 - 

Aug 2013

Smart Sensor User Interface/Security Optimization

Project #

5219

 | 

MIPS Round 

52

 | 

Starting Date: 

Aug 2013

MIPS Project Challenge:
The goal of this MIPS project was to create intuitive and clear user software interfaces for the Eagle Array monitoring system.

Project Scope:
This MIPS project challenged student researchers to produce an optimal interface for the Eagle Array system, with attention to the visibility of the interface (system) status, real-world interface match, control and freedom of the user, platform conventions, flexibility and efficiency, aesthetics, effective error handling and error prevention. Also slated for consideration and development was optimal security design, including input validation, authentication, authorization, configuration management, securing sensitive data, cryptography, intrusion detection, auditing and logging.

The student team developed a network architecture that provided BSI with an alternative approach to scaling our sensor population while maintaining an intuitive and efficient user interface. This work was completed without compromising our current, strict security constraints.
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Eugene Silverman, President, Berkeley Springs Instruments LLC

Results: 

This MIPS project resulted in an alternative architecture that provides additional administrative features to support the product’s scalability.

Principal Investigator:

George

 

Rinard

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Project Manager: 

Eugene

 

Silverman

President

Technologies:

Software Development