Title: Wireless Sensor Network Designs Author(s): Anna Hac Pages: 410 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication date: December 12, 2003 Language: English Format: pdf ISBN-10: 0470867361 ISBN-13: Description: Tremendous technological advances have been made in the development of low-cost sensor devices equipped with wireless network interfaces.
The area of wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing as new technologies emerge and new applications are developed.
This book introduces networked embedded systems, smart sensors, and wireless sensor networks, with a strong focus on architecture, applications, networks and distributed systems support for wireless sensor networks.
The issues and challenges for the development of wireless sensor networks not only encompass a broad spectrum of research topics but also give rise to the evolution of a new breed of multi-disciplinary wireless network applications.
Such sensor networks may be used for applications spanning several domains including military, medical, industrial, and home networks.