Grants & Funded Research Projects

    • Crowd-Sensing: Crowd Estimation, Management, Safety Research Project supported by HajjCore Institute in Makkah. Project PI with a total budget 618.000 RS, From May 1st 2011 to February 28th, 2013.

    • Energy-Sensing, Energy E.ciency and Data Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks, supported by NPSTI, KSA. Project PI with a total budget 1780.000 RS ($500.000 US) from January 2012.

    • HajjMemo, Pilgrims-Sourced Data Collection for Documentation and Continuous Improvement of Hajj & Umrah Services, supported by NPSTI, KSA. Project Co-PI with a total budget 1.989.665 RS ($550.000US) from January 2013 .

Patents

    • Mohamed-Slim ALOUINI, Ahmed Douik, Salah A. Aly, Tareq y. Al-na.ouri, Robust Node Estimation and Topology Discovery For Large-Scale Networks, Work done at King Abduallay University of Science and Technology,submitted US Patent, Filed March 2015, Accepted Feb. 2017.

    • Salah A. Aly, Zhenning Kong, and Emina Soljanin, "Fountain Codes Based Distributed Storage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks", US Patent, .led October 2007, status: pending. Applications: data storage systems, sensor networks, distributed systems. Work done at Bell Labs and Alcatel & Lucent in NJ, USA.

    • Salah A. Aly and Ahmed E. Kamal, "Network Protection Strategies Against Link and Node Failures Using Network Coding", US Patent number: US-2009-0135717-A1, publication date: 05/28/2009. Applications: Network Protection and Security, Failures, Practical Network Coding. Work done at Iowa State University.

    • Salah A. Aly and Hamed Metwally, A Smart Prayer Carpet System for Human Detection and Activity Recognition, submitted to the patents o.ce at Umm Al-Qura University on January 2012.

    • Salah A. Aly and Turki AlGhamdi, Smart Speed Bumps and U-Turns Road Sensors System, submitted to the patents o.ce at KACST, March 2013.

    • Salah A., Aly, A Human Facial Recognition and Detection System with Applications to Missing and Found, submitted to the patents o.ce at Umm Al-Qura University on January 2012.

    • Salah A., Aly, A System for Data Collection and Information Storage Using Wireless Sensor Devices, submitted to the patents o.ce at Umm Al-Qura University on January 2012.