Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

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Author(s): Corinna Schmitt (Technische Universität München, Germany)and Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nick Antonopoulos (University of Derby, UK), Georgios Exarchakos (University of Surrey, UK), Maozhen Li (Brunel University, UK)and Antonio Liotta (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-686-5.ch046

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Grid & High Performance Computing / High Performance Computing / Information Science Reference

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Today the researchers want to collect as much data as possible from different locations for monitoring reasons. In this context large-scale wireless sensor networks are becoming an active topic of research (Kahn1999). Because of the different locations and environments in which these sensor networks can be used, specific requirements for the hardware apply. The hardware of the sensor nodes must be robust, provide sufficient storage and communication capabilities, and get along with limited power resources. Sensor nodes such as the Berkeley-Mote Family (Polastre2006, Schmitt2006) are capable of meeting these requirements. These sensor nodes are small and light devices with radio communication and the capability for collecting sensor data. In this chapter the authors review the key elements for sensor networks and give an overview on possible applications in the field of monitoring.

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