
15-16 Sensors and Sensor Technology
15.4.5 Conguration
Most networks involve some sort of conguration. Conguration is the process of connecting sta-
tions
to
gether
an
d
as
signing
ce
rtain
pr
ogrammable
pa
rameters
to ea
ch
st
ation
re
quired
fo
r
pr
oper
op
eration
of th
e
ne
twork
. e mo
st
co
mmon
co
ngurable
pa
rameter
in ma
ny
ne
tworks
is th
e
st
ation
ad
dress
. So
me
ne
tworks
ma
y
re
quire
ot
her
pa
rameters
to be pr
eset,
su
ch
as th
e
co
mmunication
sp
eed
or bi
t
ra
te
.S
ome
ne
tworks
ha
ve
th
e
ca
pability
to au
toconfigure,
wh
ich
me
ans
to as
sign
pa
rameters
automatically to stations as part of the network start-up process, without explicit user intervention
(e.g., In ...