Chapter 3.7

Wireless sensor networks

Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

—The late Mark Weiser, Father of Ubiquitous Computing and Chief Technologist of Xerox PARC

Advances in wireless networking, micro-fabrication and integration (for example, sensors and actuators manufactured using micro-electromechanical system technology, or MEMS), and embedded microprocessors have enabled a new generation of massive-scale sensor networks suitable for a range of commercial and military applications. The technology promises to revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with the physical environment. ...

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