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Chapter 11
Wireless Sensor and Actuator
Networks for Cyber-Physical
System Applications
Kassie McCarley, Joseph Pierson, and Fei Hu
11.1 Introduction
Where would the world be without wireless networking capabilities? e importance that they
play in our lives today could not have been imagined 50 years ago. Because of networking and the
Internet, we are able to share mass amounts of information across the globe. Sensor networking
is just as important to us. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) allow us to control systems through
a cyber-physical world when we take advantage of various pieces of hardware and mix it with
software. e steps that it ...