CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

TierStore

In order to support intermittent connected storage CITRIS researchers in TIER have developed a distributed storage and application framework called TierStore. The goal of this project is to develop a storage management system to use in deploying distributed information-driven applications over intermittent networks. The system has been validated by porting a variety of applications on the framework, including wiki (collaborative content), email, and file sharing. TierStore software has been tested in the field at several Internet cafes in rural Cambodia, and researchers are working with the National TeleHealth Unit at the University of the Philippines to deploy the TierStore system to synchronize various kinds of health information among grassroots health centers in urban and rural Philippines. The same technology is being used in a separate project led by Kevin Fall at Intel for communication among ships at sea, as well as buoys and ports, and includes undersea audio links as well as traditional wireless links.  Finally, DARPA has created a small program around intermittent networking, including the DTN (delay-tolerant network) with total funding of about $10M.

Related Projects

ACTIVATE Pilot Initiative

ACTIVATE

Research partners from Health Tequity, CITRIS Health, MITRE Corp., UC Davis and UC Merced worked with health care teams at Livingston Community Health, patients and community members to identify digital health barriers and co-create new ways to address them.

“Lighthouse for Older Adults,” a CITRIS and University of California Initiative, Brings Technology-Enabled Health and Well-Being to Low-Income California Seniors During COVID Crisis

Lighthouse for Older Adults

Working in partnership with senior living providers, Lighthouse researchers conducted focus groups with residents and staff to identify barriers to technology use.