• DocumentCode
    1266998
  • Title

    Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks

  • Author

    Estrin, Deborah ; Culler, David ; Pister, Kris ; Sukhatme, Gaurav

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    69
  • Abstract
    This article addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting the physical world with pervasive networks of sensor-rich, embedded computation. The authors present a taxonomy of emerging systems and outline the enabling technological developments.
  • Keywords
    embedded systems; mobile computing; network interfaces; sensors; wireless LAN; device interconnection; emerging systems taxonomy; enabling technological developments; instrumentation; pervasive networks; physical world; sensor-rich embedded computation; ubiquitous computing; Computer networks; Computer vision; Data acquisition; Data engineering; Embedded computing; Instruments; Joining processes; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Taxonomy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pervasive Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1268
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPRV.2002.993145
  • Filename
    993145