Sense-ability

When we think of computer networks, we usually picture desktop computers connected to each other through a hub with those hubs linked to servers. You may even picture a Wireless LAN where a single wireless hub connects multiple computers at home and serve as a gateway to the Internet for all those computers. However, you are unlikely to picture drawing-pin sized 'nodes' or small computing and transmitting devices scattered across a battle field in enemy territory to monitor the movements of enemy troops, or tiny computers implanted into different organs within a human body to monitor the health of the organs, communicating with each other and sending their data to a monitoring device that is capable of fore-warning heart-attacks and strokes in ordinary people.

Yet, as the drive for faster multimedia networks grow on the global scale, wireless sensor network technology is emerging, enabling some of the most innovative uses of computer technology ever imagined.

From tsunami warning systems and weather forecasting to traffic analysis and tracking wild animals, sensor network technology is slowly but surely lifting the cap of imagination itself. Most of present sensor network technology is limited by physical factors such as battery power and transmission capacity and size.

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