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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of spatially distributed sensor nodes that monitor physical or environmental conditions. A WSN is composed of sensor nodes, gateways, and a base station. Sensor nodes collect data and route it back to the base station through other sensor nodes or gateways. - WSNs have a wide range of applications including industrial monitoring, health care, environmental monitoring, home automation, and military surveillance. Example applications described in the document are habitat monitoring on an island, soil moisture monitoring, infrastructure monitoring of bridges and buildings, and health monitoring of elderly patients. - Key issues in WSNs include limited energy of sensor nodes, dynamic network topology as nodes fail, and developing energy

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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of spatially distributed sensor nodes that monitor physical or environmental conditions. A WSN is composed of sensor nodes, gateways, and a base station. Sensor nodes collect data and route it back to the base station through other sensor nodes or gateways. - WSNs have a wide range of applications including industrial monitoring, health care, environmental monitoring, home automation, and military surveillance. Example applications described in the document are habitat monitoring on an island, soil moisture monitoring, infrastructure monitoring of bridges and buildings, and health monitoring of elderly patients. - Key issues in WSNs include limited energy of sensor nodes, dynamic network topology as nodes fail, and developing energy

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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

Kuei-Ping Shih
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Tamkang University [email protected] http://wireless.cs.tku.edu.tw/~kpshih/

Introduction
Wireless Sensor Networks
Sensor Node Components Applications WSNs vs. MANETs Issues in WSNs

Introduction

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

sink

sensor field
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sensor nodes
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Introduction

Sensor Node Components


Location Finding System Mobilizer

Sensing Unit

Processing Unit Processor

Sensor ADC Storage

Transceiver

Power Unit Kuei-Ping [email protected]

Power Generator

Introduction

Sensor Node Main Tasks


sensing processing & storage communication

Processor Sensor ADC Storage Transceiver

power support
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Sensor Node Characteristics


Low

cost Low power Small size Short communication distance

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Introduction

MICA2 Dot

MICA2
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MICAz (Zigbee)
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Introduction

Applications of WSNs
Industrial control & monitoring Home automation & consumer electronics Security & military surveillance Environmental sensing Health care

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Military surveillance

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Leach's Storm Petrel

Habitat Monitoring on Great Duck Island


http://www.greatduckisland.net/ Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley Temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, mid-range infrared, and image.
Great Duck Island, Maine

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S.Sense Wireless Sensors


Introduction

http://www.digitalsun.com/index.html Digital Sun, Inc. A soil moisture sensor system to keep grass green while saving water

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Bridges & Building Monitoring


Introduction

http://www.senera.com/ Senera Corp. Wireless infrastructure monitoring services for transportation and building infrastructures (89.8.27)

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Sensor Network-Based Countersniper System

Introduction

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CMU Millibots

Introduction

Modularity - modularity in sensing, processing and mobility allows dynamic configuration based on task Localization - The team needs to be able to track its position even in the presence of errors Team Architecture - An architecture is needed to coordinate movement and collect sensor information Self Repair - The team can detect failures and fix themselves in the field

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Introduction

Healthy Monitoring
Gather

data to infer activities of daily living Give clues to a persons state of health Monitor patients with dementia and other ills of aging Detect early signs of disease and prevent its progression

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Introduction

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Health care
four students from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (in Czech) won third prize at the annual IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC 2002) World Finals

Introduction

A BodyBody-Monitoring System with EEG and EOG Sensors

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Home automation

Introduction

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Introduction

WSNs vs. MANETs


The

number of sensors can be several orders of magnitude higher than the nodes in an adhoc network Sensor nodes are densely deployed Sensor nodes are prone to failure The topology of a sensor network changes very frequently Sensor nodes are limited in power, computational capabilities, and memory
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Introduction

Issues in WSNs

Networking

Physical design MAC protocols Power saving, collision avoidance, Routing protocols Data aggregation, dissemination, Deployment, redeployment, topology control Localization and positioning Coverage and connectivity problems Intruders detection, tracking, Event border detection
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Network management

Application

Energy Efficient

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Thank you.

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