Senceive: A Middleware for a Wireless Sensor Network

— A significant amount of research effort is being carried out by the research community to increase the scope and usefulness of wireless sensor networks; to optimise life time by developing energy efficient power management, self-organising, medium access and routing protocols; and to reduce the cost of sensing nodes so that dense and robust deployment is possible. Though much has already been achieved, currently the cost of commercially available wireless sensor nodes is considerable and the wide applicability of proposed or existing protocols is still under investigation. One essential problem associated with cost or wide applicability of protocols is that sensor networks are application-specific. Protocols and in-network algorithms are optimised for particular sensing tasks. On the other hand, in research environments researchers would like to experiment not with a single application but with many applications. Considering the not-so-cheap sensing nodes available on the market...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Christian Hermann, Waltenegus Dargie
• Keywords: AINA 2008, Computer Networks, Wireless Sensor, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Nodes