Hamdard University Islamabad Campus

Hamdard Institute of Engineering & Technology Department of Computer

Science Program: BS Computer Science

Course Title 23361, Sensor Networks

Semester/Year 6th, Spring 2020

Instructor Sir Insaf Ullah

Assignment 01

Submission Date 28 April 2020

Due Date 28 April 2020

Student Name Zain Hassan

Student CMS-ID 997-2017

Signature* Zain
Q#1: Write the applications of WSN?

1. Military Applications
2. Health Applications
3. Environmental Applications
4. Home Applications
5. Commercial Applications
6. Area monitoring
7. Health care monitoring
8. Environmental/Earth sensing
9. Air pollution monitoring
10.Forest fire detection
11.Landslide detection
12.Water quality monitoring
13.Industrial monitoring

Q#2: Define the different parts of sensor node?

sensor
A transducer
converts physical phenomenon e.g. heat, light, motion, vibration, and sound into
electrical signals

sensor node
basic unit in sensor network
contains on-board sensors, processor, memory, transceiver, and power supply

sensor network
consists of a large number of sensor nodes
Nodes deployed either inside or very close to the sensed phenomenon