Wireless Sensor Networks: Solutions and Market Opportunities

Wireless Sensor Networks: Solutions and Market Opportunities

Advances in wireless networking, micro-fabrication and integration (for example, sensors and actuators manufactured using micro-electro mechanical system technology, or MEMS), and embedded microprocessors have enabled a new generation of massive-scale sensor networks suitable for a range of commercial and military applications. The technology promises to revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with the physical environment.

In the not-too-distant future, tiny, dirt-cheap sensors may be literally sprayed on to roads, walls, or machines, creating a digital skin that senses a variety of physical phenomena of interest; monitor pedestrian or vehicular traffic in human-aware environments and intelligent transportation grids, report wild life habitat conditions for environmental conservation, detect forest fire to aid rapid emergency response, and track job and supply chains in smart factories. Unlike current in formation services such as those on the Internet where information can easily get stale or be useless because it is too generic, sensor networks promise to couple end users directly to sensor measurements and provide information that is precisely localized in time and/or space, according to the users needs or demands.

Wireless Sensor Networks: Solutions and Market Opportunities address the important areas of the sensor networks are addressed and focusing on the present and the future areas will be presented to the reader to give a clear idea of what the sensor network is capable of. The current trends and the future prospects will be highlighted as well to make this report unique targeted towards a better understanding of sensor networks.

Target Audience

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• Wireless service providers including cellular mobile network operators and others
  
  
• Investors in the area of sensing, telemetry, remote monitoring and control
  
  
• Wireless component vendors and OEM manufacturers
  
  
• Application developers and systems integrators
  
  
• Wireless application and content providers

Section - I

Introduction

Section - II: Communications Evolution and Sensor Networks

Evolution of Wireless Communication Networks

Section -III: Deployment Issues and Challenges

Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks:

Wireless Sensor Network Architecture

Hierarchical Clustering

Location Awareness

Attribute-based Naming

Self Configuration Techniques

Data Gathering Procedures in Wireless Sensor Networks

Section - IV: Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization

Synchronization Factors in Wireless Sensor Networks

Synchronization Methodologies

Mobile and Static Node Scenarios

Connection oriented and Connectionless Protocols

Real-Life Implementation Issues of Wireless Sensor Networks

The Partitioning Decision

Natural and Artificial Interferences

Accuracy Factors

Power Consumption Issues

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Wireless Sensor Networks in the Real World

Hardware

Environment

Tools

Simulators

Section - VI: Current Areas of Implementation

Current Areas for Wireless Sensor Network Usage

Monitoring

Tracking

Transportation

Communications

Section - VII: Wireless Sensor Networks and Healthcare

Healthcare and Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor Networks in Monitoring Patents and Elderly people

Technical Bottlenecks and Challenges

Improved Sensor Design

Biocompatibility

Energy Supply and Demand

Section - VIII: Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Homes

Sensor Network and Smart Home

Smart Home Basic Components

Smart Home Standards

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Limitations of the standard

Cost Estimation of the Available Technologies

Budgeting and comparing device cost

Section - IX: QoS Issues for Wireless Sensor Networks

Quality of Service for Sensor Networks

Quality Standards and Metrics

Challenges Ahead for QoS

Factors & Scenarios Influencing the QoS

Steps Against Data Uncertainty

Section - X: Security Issues for Wireless Sensor Networks

Security Issues in Sensor Networks

Implementing Secure Sensor Networks

Using Sensor Networks for Security Measures

Sensor Networks in Homeland Security

Passport Control

Border Security Application

Air Defense System

Environmental Monitor System

Commercial Usages Targeting Factories

Tracking

Monitoring

Inventory Control

Automated Sales

Process Control

Products for Home

Section - XI: Future Opportunities for Sensor Networks

Future of Sensor Networks and their Prototypes

Asset and warehouse management

Automotive

Building monitoring and control

Environmental Monitoring

Healthcare

Military Battlefield Awareness

Security and surveillance

Future Research

Secure Systems

Embedded Operating Systems

Group Management

Lightweight Signal Processing

High Data Rate Sensors

Section XII

Conclusions