Sensor: A device that detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or

otherwise responds to it

Sensors are used in everyday objects such as touch-sensitive elevator buttons (tactile sensor)
and lamps which dim or brighten by touching the base. There are also innumerable applications
for sensors of which most people are never aware. Applications include cars, machines,
aerospace, medicine, manufacturing and robotics.

A sensor is a device which receives and responds to a signal. A sensor's sensitivity indicates how
much the sensor's output changes when the measured quantity changes. For instance, if the
mercury in a thermometer moves 1 cm when the temperature changes by 1 °C, the sensitivity is
1 cm/°C (it is basically the slope Dy/Dx assuming a linear characteristic). Sensors that measure
very small changes must have very high sensitivities. Sensors also have an impact on what they
measure; for instance, a room temperature thermometer inserted into a hot cup of liquid cools the
liquid while the liquid heats the thermometer. Sensors need to be designed to have a small effect
on what is measured, making the sensor smaller often improves this and may introduce other
advantages. Technological progress allows more and more sensors to be manufactured on
a microscopic scale as microsensors using MEMStechnology. In most cases, a microsensor
reaches a significantly higher speed and sensitivity compared with macroscopicapproaches.

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What are wireless sensor networks?- How wireless sensor network works -
Sensor networks
 
In computer networking there is a great value of wireless networking because it has no difficult installation,
no more expenditure and has lot of way to save money band time. In the field of wireless networking there is
another form of networking which is called as wireless sensor network. A type of wireless networking which
is comprised on number of numerous sensors and they are interlinked or connected with each other for
performing the same function collectively or cooperatively for the sake of checking and balancing the
environmental factors. This type of networking is called as Wireless sensor networking. Basically wireless
sensor networking is used for monitoring the physical conditions such as weather conditions, regularity of
temperature, different kinds of vibrations and also deals in the field of technology related to sound

Some times it is also used in pressure, and also checking the environmental pollutants. These sensors
which are used collectively for performing a function are distributed spatially other wise it is difficult for the
sensors to perform cooperatively to play a role in monitoring. Scientists develop wireless sensor networking
on the bases of inspiration from the application known as battle field surveillance which is completely a
military application. As we know that this technology has great importance in the field of computational world
and where it has computational importance it also has importance in industry. It is also play an important
part in civilian technologies like monitoring of traffic control and many others.
 
How wireless sensor network works?
 
Total working of wireless sensor networking is based on its construction. Sensor network initially consists of
small or large nodes called as sensor nodes. These nodes are varying in size and totally depend on the size
because different sizes of sensor nodes work efficiently in different fields. Wireless sensor networking have
such sensor nodes which are specially designed in such a typical way that they have a microcontroller which
controls the monitoring, a radio  transceiver for generating radio waves, different type of wireless
communicating devices and also equipped with an energy source such as battery. The entire network
worked simultaneously by using different dimensions of sensors and worked on the phenomenon of multi
routing algorithm which is also termed as wireless ad hoc networking.
            
Applications of Wireless Sensor Networking:

In the present era there are lot of technologies which are used for monitoring are completely based on the
wireless sensor networking. Some of important applications are environmental monitoring, traffic control
application, weather checking, regularity checking of temperature etc. Wireless sensor networks can also be
used for detecting the presence of vehicles such as motor cycles up to trains. These are some important
wireless sensor networking based technologies which help us in our daily life. Some of there daily life
applications are: used in agriculture, water level monitoring, green house monitoring, landfill monitoring etc.
 
Pros and Cons of Wireless Sensor Networking:

There are many advantages of wireless sensor networking some of important prose’s are: they can store a
limited source of energy, they have no hassle of cables and has mobility, one of its major advantage is that it
can work efficiently under the harsh conditions, and it has deployment up to large scale etc. Where it has
advantages at the same time it also has some disadvantages which really take the moral of this technology
down such as they have very insufficient speed of communication, it is to disturb the propagation of waves
and hack your networking and the major disadvantage of wireless sensor networking is it is too costly to use.
                    
Future of wireless sensor networks:

But wireless sensor networking has a bright future in the field of computer networking because we can solve
the monitoring problems at an advanced level in the future with the help of such technology of networking.