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sensor network

A low-speed industrial network that is used to connect sensors to actuators. A sensor network implies limited or no controller functions. Multiple sensor networks may be coupled to form device networks. See industrial control network and visual sensor network.
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According to network structure, a sensor network can be nonhierarchical, hierarchical or location based.
In this paper, we assume that sensor nodes are evenly deployed in the sensor network and do not move after being deployed.
Different from the general wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [2], a wireless sensor network deployed on a coal mine robot consists of a number of small sensor nodes.
2013 [4] developed a wireless sensor network for outdoor air pollution monitoring and tested the designed prototype on the real-time basis.
Du, "Improving wireless sensor network lifetime through power aware organization," Wireless Networks, vol.
To enhance the lifetime of network, a good MAC protocol for the wireless sensor network must be energy efficient.
In this special issue, we concentrate mainly on security and privacy as well as the emerging applications of wireless sensor network. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from wireless and sensor networking, security, cryptography, and distributed computing communities, with the goal of promoting discussions and collaborations.
Therefore, wireless sensor network has the sensor and micro-electromechanical and wireless communications in one of three technologies (Yang, 2016).
Libelium is a wireless sensor network platform provider that delivers, open-source, low-power consumption devices that are easy to program and implement for Smart Cities solutions and a wide range of M2M and sensor projects.
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