The area of monitoring and control of physical environments has recently become a hot spot
in the technology landscape. Currently, a number of companies are offering a plethora of
sensing devices with different phenomena's monitoring capabilities. These devices, aka
sensors, can be tiny with limited energy and processing capabilities; they can stand alone or
be integrated in various structures (buildings, human bodies, vehicles, objects, etc.), and
they can be deployed to form a wireless sensor network (WSN) in support to a variety of …