TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Abdelgawad, Ahmed
AU - Bayoumi, Magdy
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network comprised of numerous small autonomous sensor nodes called motes. It combines a broad range of networking, hardware, software, and programming methodologies. Each node is a computer with attached sensors that can process and exchange sensed data, as well as communicates wirelessly among them to complete various tasks. Sensors attached to this node allow them to sense various phenomena within the surroundings.WSN has received momentous attention in recent years because of its titanic potential in applications. In this chapter, we introduced many applications of WSN, explained the sensor node evaluation metrics, brought in the sensor network architecture, and finally we discussed the WSN's challenges and constraints.
AB - A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network comprised of numerous small autonomous sensor nodes called motes. It combines a broad range of networking, hardware, software, and programming methodologies. Each node is a computer with attached sensors that can process and exchange sensed data, as well as communicates wirelessly among them to complete various tasks. Sensors attached to this node allow them to sense various phenomena within the surroundings.WSN has received momentous attention in recent years because of its titanic potential in applications. In this chapter, we introduced many applications of WSN, explained the sensor node evaluation metrics, brought in the sensor network architecture, and finally we discussed the WSN's challenges and constraints.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-1350-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-1350-9_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84857531376
SN - 9781461413493
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - Resource-Aware Data Fusion Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -