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An Overview of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's)
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 118 - Number 5 |
| Year of Publication: 2015 |
| Authors: Aiman J. Albarakati |
10.5120/20744-3131
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Aiman J. Albarakati . An Overview of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's). International Journal of Computer Applications. 118, 5 ( May 2015), 30-33. DOI=10.5120/20744-3131
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSN's) constitute a hefty zone of present-day research just because of advances to empowering advances in hardware and software. This research article scrutinizes the research issues/defies in (WSNs), which is an innovative computing standard that appeared or evolved from the blend of the Ad-hoc and "Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition " systems (SCADA) network technologies. Wireless sensor networks endow with network connectivity devoid of the assistance of any pre-exist networking infrastructure/establishment. Incredibly minute sensor nodes that are competent of sensing, wireless communication and data processing, brought into play the initiative of Wireless sensor networks based on mutual endeavor/exertion of a hefty number of nodes. Wireless sensor networks are fitting a progressively more crucial technology that will be utilized in an assortment of applications e. g. home automation, inventory tracking, habitat monitoring, physiological monitoring, home automation, forest fire detection and precision agriculture. Restricted battery power, active network topology, and inhibited wireless bandwidth are the exceptional personality of Wireless sensor networks which construct supervision of it drastically more exigent than predictable wired networks. This article is an outline of research inclinations and defies in the devise and accomplishment of Wireless sensor networks. It recapitulates the prospective defies that manipulate the Wireless sensor networks plan.
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