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An Overview on Wireless Sensor Networks

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Wireless Sensor networks offer countless challenges, but their versatility and their broad range of applications are eliciting more and more interest from the research community as well as from industry. Sensor networks have the potential of triggering the next revolution in information and communication technology . The aim of this chapter is to discuss some of the most relevant issues of WSNs , from the application, design, and technology viewpoints.

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  1. Department of ICT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea (Republic of)

    Dong-Seong Kim & Hoa Tran-Dang

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Kim, DS., Tran-Dang, H. (2019). An Overview on Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Industrial Sensors and Controls in Communication Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04927-0_8

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