A Quick Survey on Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become one of the important areas in networking field. This is because sensors as compared to others are cheaper, efficient, adaptable and smaller. These sensors are having wireless interfaces to communicate with each other. The design of wireless sensor networks is application specific. Change in the application leads to change in the design of the network. Also network topologies vary if some physical changes in the network occur. The paper gives overview of the WSN. Also broad classification of applications of WSN is given briefly in this paper. Also the overview has been given on types on which these applications are based on.