Main description:

In recent times wireless sensors and sensor networks have become a great interest to research, scientific and technological community. Though the sensor networks have been in place for more than a few decades now, the wireless domain has opened up a whole new application spaces of sensors. Wireless sensors and sensor networks are different from traditional wireless networks as well computer networks and therefore pose more challenges to solve such as limited energy, restricted life time, etc. This book intends to illustrate and to collect recent advances in wireless sensors and sensor networks, not as an encyclopedia but as clever support for scientists, students and researchers in order to stimulate exchange and discussions for further developments.

Contents:

Security for Wireless Sensor Networks - Configuration Aid.- Low Power Wireless Buoy Platform for Environmental Monitoring.- A Detail Performance Evaluation of the Novel Mechanisms Ensuring Maximum Connectivity and Data Transmission between Nodes, Based on the Heuristics Under 5-Color Clustered Response Approach.- Inventory Management in the Packaged Gas Industry Using Wireless Sensor Networks.- An EM-IMM Method for Simultaneous Registration and Fusion of Multiple Radars and ESM Sensors.- Locatable, Sensor-Enabled Multistandard RFID Tags.- Optimal Sensor Network Configuration Based on Control Theory.- Optimal Local Map Registration for Wireless Sensor Network Localization Problems.- Wireless Sensor Network: Application to Vehicular Traffic.- Thermal Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Nodes with Case Studies.- IEEE 1451.5 Standard-Based Wireless Sensor Networks.- Fuzzy Based Optimized Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Energy Aware Sensor Group Scheduling to Minimise Estimated Error from Noisy Sensor Measurements.- Smart Home for Elderly Using Optimized Number of Wireless Sensors.- Estimation of Packet Error Rate at Wireless Link of VANET.