Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Due to their wide applications, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained significant attention in recent years. They can be deployed for environment monitoring such as pollution, temperature, humidity, and weather; flood, earthquake, Tsunami, forest fire, and volcano eruption detection; agriculture, wildlife, infrastructure (e.g., buildings, bridges), and health monitoring; surveillance and border control, biohazard monitoring (e.g., nuclear and chemical attack detection); and so on. In the context of cyber–physical infrastructure networks and systems, WSNs provide an indispensable sensing and actuation platform, such as in smart metering of electric grids, vehicular traffic monitoring in transportation systems, structural health monitoring, ...