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WIRELESSSENSORNETWORKS

A wireless sensor network consists of distributed sensors that monitor conditions like temperature, sound, and pollution. They are used in applications like environmental monitoring, healthcare, home automation, and traffic control. Each sensor node contains a radio, microcontroller, power source, and sensors. They vary in size and cost. Wireless sensor networks are used to monitor areas like battlefields, greenhouses, landslides, and water tower levels. Applications involve monitoring, tracking or controlling phenomena.

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WIRELESSSENSORNETWORKS

A wireless sensor network consists of distributed sensors that monitor conditions like temperature, sound, and pollution. They are used in applications like environmental monitoring, healthcare, home automation, and traffic control. Each sensor node contains a radio, microcontroller, power source, and sensors. They vary in size and cost. Wireless sensor networks are used to monitor areas like battlefields, greenhouses, landslides, and water tower levels. Applications involve monitoring, tracking or controlling phenomena.

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WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSN)

INTRODUCTION
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consistsof spatially distributed autonomoussensors tocooperatively monitor physicalor environmental conditions, such astemperature, sound,vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants. The development of wireless sensor networks was motivated by military applications suchas battlefield surveillance and are now used in many industrial and civilian applicationareas, including industrial process monitoring and control, machine health monitoring, environment and habitat monitoring, healthcare applications, home automation, and traffic control.In addition to one or more sensors, each node in a sensor network is typicallyequipped with a radio transceiver or otherwireless communications device, a smallmicrocontroller, and an energy source, usuallya battery. A sensor node might vary in sizefrom that of a shoebox down to the size of agrain of dust, although functioning motesof genuine microscopic dimensions have yetto be created. The cost of sensor nodes issimilarly variable, ranging from hundreds ofdollars to a few pennies, depending on thesize of the sensor network and the complexityrequired of individual sensor nodes. Size andcost constraints on sensor nodes result incorresponding constraints on resources suchas energy, memory, computational speed andbandwidth.

Wireless Sensor Network Architecture

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks


The applications for WSNs are varied, typically involving some kind of monitoring, tracking, or controlling. Specific applicationsinclude habitat monitoring, object tracking,fire detection, land slide detection and trafficmonitoring. In a typical application, a WSNis scattered in a region where it is meant tocollect data through its sensor nodes.

Area monitoring
Area monitoring is a common application ofWSNs. In area monitoring, the WSN is deployed over a region where some phenomenon is tobe monitored. For example, a large quantityof sensor nodes could be deployed over abattlefield to detect enemy intrusion.

Greenhouse Monitoring
Wireless sensor networks are also used tocontrol the temperature and humidity levelsinside commercial greenhouses. Whenthe temperature and humidity drops belowspecific levels, the greenhouse managermust be notified via e-mail or cell phone textmessage.

Landslide detection
A landslide detection system, make use of awireless sensor network to detect the slightmovements of soil that may occur during alandslide. And through the data gathered itmay be possible to know the occurrence oflandslides long before it actually happens.

Water Tower Level Monitoring


Water towers are used to add water andcreate water pressure to small communitiesor neighborhoods during peak use times toensure water pressure isavailable to all users. A wireless sensor networkthat includes submersiblepressure sensors andfloat switches monitors the water levels in thetower and wirelesslytransmits this data backto a control location.

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