TY - CHAP AU - Amir Basirat AU - Asad I. Khan ED - Geoff V Merrett ED - Yen Kheng Tan Y1 - 2010-12-14 PY - 2010 T1 - Building Context Aware Network of Wireless Sensors Using a Scalable Distributed Estimation Scheme for Real-time Data Manipulation N2 - Over the past decade, there has been a prolific increase in the research, development and commercialisation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their associated technologies. WSNs have found application in a vast range of different domains, scenarios and disciplines. These have included healthcare, defence and security, environmental monitoring and building/structural health monitoring. However, as a result of the broad array of pertinent applications, WSN researchers have also realised the application specificity of the domain; it is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to find an application-independent solution to most WSN problems. Hence, research into WSNs dictates the adoption of an application-centric design process. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all WSN applications and deployments to date. Instead, it is a collection of state-of-the-art research papers discussing current applications and deployment experiences, but also the communication and data processing technologies that are fundamental in further developing solutions to applications. Whilst a common foundation is retained through all chapters, this book contains a broad array of often differing interpretations, configurations and limitations of WSNs, and this highlights the diversity of this ever-changing research area. The chapters have been categorised into three distinct sections: applications and case studies, communication and networking, and information and data processing. The readership of this book is intended to be postgraduate/postdoctoral researchers and professional engineers, though some of the chapters may be of relevance to interested master’s level students. BT - Wireless Sensor Networks SP - Ch. 22 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/13756 DO - 10.5772/13756 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-16 ER -