Applications of Wireless

Sensor Networks
Kuei-Ping Shih

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

Tamkang University

kpshih@mail.tku.edu.tw
http://wireless.cs.tku.edu.tw/~kpshih/

Introduction
Wireless Sensor Networks
Sensor Node Components
Applications
WSNs vs. MANETs
Issues in WSNs

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

sink

sensor field sensor

nodes
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Introduction

Sensor Node Components

Location Finding System Mobilizer

Sensing Unit Processing Unit

Processor
Sensor ADC Transceiver
Storage

Power
Power Unit
Generator
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Sensor Node Main Tasks

sensing processing communication

& storage

Processor
Sensor ADC Transceiver
Storage
power
support

Power Unit

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Sensor Node Characteristics

Low cost
Low power
Small size
Short communication distance

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MICA2 Dot

MICA2
MICAz (Zigbee)

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Applications of WSNs
Industrial control & monitoring
Home automation & consumer electronics
Security & military surveillance
Environmental sensing
Health care

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Military surveillance

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 Leach's Storm Petrel

Habitat Monitoring
on Great Duck Island
http://www.greatduckisland.net/
Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley
Temperature, humidity, barometric
pressure, mid-range infrared, and
image.

Great Duck Island,

Maine

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Introduction
S.Sense Wireless
Sensors
http://www.digitalsun.com/index.html
Digital Sun, Inc.
A soil moisture sensor system to keep
grass green while saving water

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Bridges & Building Monitoring
http://www.senera.com/
Senera Corp.
Wireless infrastructure monitoring services for
transportation and building infrastructures
(89.8.27)

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Introduction
Sensor Network-Based
Countersniper System

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CMU
Millibots
Modularity - modularity in sensing, processing and mobility allows dynamic
configuration based on task
Localization - The team needs to be able to track its position even in the presence of
errors
Team Architecture - An architecture is needed to coordinate movement and collect
sensor information
Self Repair - The team can detect failures and fix themselves in the field

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Healthy Monitoring

Gather data to infer activities of daily living

Give clues to a persons state of health
Monitor patients with dementia and other
ills of aging
Detect early signs of disease and prevent its
progression

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Health care
A Body-
Body-Monitoring System with EEG and EOG Sensors
four students from the Slovak
University of Technology in
Bratislava (in Czech)
won third prize at the annual IEEE
Computer Society International
Design Competition (CSIDC 2002)
World Finals

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Home automation

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WSNs vs. MANETs

The number of sensors can be several orders
of magnitude higher than the nodes in an ad-
hoc network
Sensor nodes are densely deployed
Sensor nodes are prone to failure
The topology of a sensor network changes
very frequently
Sensor nodes are limited in power,
computational capabilities, and memory
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Issues in WSNs
Networking
Physical design
MAC protocols
Power saving, collision avoidance,

Routing protocols
Data aggregation, dissemination,

Network management
Deployment, redeployment, topology control
Localization and positioning
Coverage and connectivity problems
Application
Intruders detection, tracking,
Event border detection
Energy Efficient
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Thank you.

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