Wireless Sensor Networks: Solutions and Market Opportunities
An Eogogics-Mind Commerce Publication: 80 Pages, published May, 2008
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Report in a Nutshell
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 information 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.
This report is devoted to a discussion of the technology, capabilities,
applications, current trends, and future prospects of wireless sensor
networks.
Target Audience
- 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
More on the Report
- Introduction
- Communications Evolution and Sensor Networks
- Evolution of Wireless Communication Networks
- 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
- 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
- Wireless Sensor Networks in the Real World
- Hardware
- Environment
- Tools
- Simulators
- Current Areas of Implementation
- Current Areas for Wireless Sensor Network Usage
- Monitoring
- Tracking
- Transportation
- Communications
- Wireless Sensor Networks and Healthcare
- Healthcare and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Sensor Networks in Monitoring Patients and Elderly People
- Technical Bottlenecks and Challenges
- Improved Sensor Design
- Biocompatibility
- Energy Supply and Demand
- Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Homes
- Sensor Network and Smart Home
- Smart Home Basic Components
- Smart Home Standards
- X10
- Limitations of the Standard
- Cost Estimation of the Available Technologies
- Budgeting and Comparing Device Cost
- QoS Issues for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Quality of Service for Sensor Networks
- Quality Standards and Metrics
- Challenges Ahead for QoS
- Factors and Scenarios Influencing the QoS
- Steps Against Data Uncertainty
- 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 Monitoring System
- Commercial Usages Targeting Factories
- Tracking
- Monitoring
- Inventory Control
- Automated Sales
- Process Control
- Products for Home
- 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
- Conclusions
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