The Platforms Enabling Wireless Sensor Networks

Jason Hill, president and CEO of JLH Labs, Mike Horton, president and CEO of Crossbow Technology, Inc., Ralph Kling, principal researcher and leader of the Intel Mote project at Intel Research and the Systems Technology Laboratory at Intel Corp., and Lakshman Krishnamurthy, senior staff engineer in the Communication Technology Lab at Intel Corp

12/22/2008
(Original Publish Date: 6/12/2004)

Wireless sensor networks combine processing, sensing, and communications into tiny embedded devices. Peer-to-peer communication protocols then combine the individual devices into an interconnected mesh network where data is seamlessly routed among all the nodes. These networks require no external infrastructure and can scale to hundreds or even thousands of nodes.