Title :
Current and future trends in sensor networks: a survey
Author :
Aboelaze, Mokhtar ; Aloul, Fadi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., North York, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Sensor networks consist of a large number of very small nodes that are deployed in some geographical area. The purpose of the network is to sense the environment and report what happens in the area it is deployed in. Sensor networks are used in many applications. In military applications they are used for surveillance and target tracking. In industrial applications, sensor networks are used in monitoring hazardous chemicals. They are also used in monitoring the environment and in early fire warning in forests as well as seismic data collections. Sensor networks face new challenges not known in cellular and ad-hoc wireless networks. In this paper, we report on currents and new trends in sensor networks. We also present some of the challenges and future work in sensor networks.
Keywords :
cellular radio; wireless sensor networks; ad-hoc wireless networks; cellular networks; fire warning; hazardous chemicals monitoring; military applications; seismic data collections; sensor networks; Cellular networks; Chemical hazards; Chemical industry; Chemical sensors; Defense industry; Fires; Monitoring; Surveillance; Target tracking; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2005. WOCN 2005. Second IFIP International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9019-9
DOI :
10.1109/WOCN.2005.1436087