Wireless Sensor Networks

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Introduction

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 appli-

cations. The technology promises to revolutionize the way we live,

work, and interact with the physical environment [222, 168, 65].

In the not-too-distant future, tiny, dirt-cheap ...