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This chapter addresses the key points of wireless sensor nodes: applications, constraints, architecture, operating systems, and security concerns. It does not pretend to be exhaustive but to provide the major references on these topics.

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    In practice very few applications use thousands of nodes. However theoretically, for instance, in military applications like battlefield surveillance, a huge number of nodes may be required. The biggest wireless sensor networks publicly known that have ever been built are: a system based on MyriaNed and composed of more than 1000 nodes [14, 38]; an 800 nodes network called the “Largest Tiny Network Yet” deployed at Berkeley [5] in 2001; WISEBED [21] which is made of around 750 nodes but split in several subnetworks; the architecture described in [7] that uses 273 sensors and 47 wireless nodes to monitor nectarine orchard.

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