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Wireless Sensor Network

This seminar presentation provides an overview of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It defines WSNs as consisting of spatially distributed autonomous sensors that cooperatively monitor environmental conditions like temperature, sound, and pollution. The key components of a WSN are sensor nodes, transceivers, and a central unit. Sensor nodes contain microcontrollers, transceivers, memory, power sources, and one or more sensors. WSNs provide advantages like mobility and low cost, but also face challenges like limited power, security vulnerabilities, and communication failures. Applications of WSNs include industrial monitoring, healthcare, security, and environmental sensing.

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Wireless Sensor Network

This seminar presentation provides an overview of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It defines WSNs as consisting of spatially distributed autonomous sensors that cooperatively monitor environmental conditions like temperature, sound, and pollution. The key components of a WSN are sensor nodes, transceivers, and a central unit. Sensor nodes contain microcontrollers, transceivers, memory, power sources, and one or more sensors. WSNs provide advantages like mobility and low cost, but also face challenges like limited power, security vulnerabilities, and communication failures. Applications of WSNs include industrial monitoring, healthcare, security, and environmental sensing.

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A

SEMINAR
ON
WIRELESS SENSOR
NETWORK

Presented by:
Suresh R
Reg: 397CS06054
Table of contents
 What Is Wireless Sensor Network ?
 The challenges in the hierarchy of: WSN
 COMPLETE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION OF WSN
 SENSOR NODE
 Components of a Sensor Node
 Advantage
 Disadvantage
 Application
 Security and militry survilance
 Conclusion
 References
What Is Wireless Sensor Network ?
 wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed 
autonomous sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or
environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound
, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants

 The development of wireless sensor networks was motivated


by military applications such as battlefield surveillance and
are now used in many industrial and civilian application
areas, including industrial process monitoring and control,
machine health monitoring, environment and habitat
monitoring, healthcare applications, home automation, and
traffic control
The challenges in the hierarchy of:
WSN
detecting the relevant quantities,
monitoring and collecting the
data,
assessing and evaluating the
information,
formulating meaningful user
displays,
and
performing decision-making and
alarm functions are enormous.
COMPLETE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION OF WSN

Consist of three major components

SENSOR NODE

TRANSCEIVER

A CENTRAL UNIT
SENSOR NODE
A sensor node, also known as a 'mote‘

(chiefly in North America), is a node

in a wireless sensor network that is capable

of performing some processing, gathering

sensory information and communication

with other connected nodes in the network


Components of a Sensor Node
 Microcontroller

 Transceiver

 Memory

 Ram (random access memory)

 Rom (read only memory )

 Power source

 One or more sensors.


Advantage
  Limited power they can harvest or store
  Ability to withstand harsh environmental
conditions
  Ability to cope with node failures
  Mobility of nodes
  Dynamic network topology
  Communication failures
  Heterogeneity of nodes
  Low cost
  Low power
  Small size
Disadvantage
 Short communication distanc

 Its damn easy for hackers to hack it as we


cant control propagation of waves

 Comparatively low speed of communication

 Gets distracted by various elements like


Blue-tooth

 Still Costly at large


Application
� Industrial control & monitoring

� Health care

� Security & military surveillance

� Environmental sensing

� Home automation & consumer


electronics
Security and militry survilance
Conclusion
 To realize the ubiquitous computing in human life a sensor network
may be the powerful
 tool, because they can be deployed at the places where a man can
not reach.
 However it is
 negative sides also because the power of sensor node can not be
refreshed.To realize the power
 control and power saving every layer take care of that. At Physical
layer modulation schemes are
 chosen according to that. At MAC layer contention free schemes are
used. At
 Network layer multihop routing and data centric routing is used. At
the time when guaranteed delivery is required TCP can also be used.
 TCP is used in addition to link layer retransmission. Software which
is used on application layer
 also should be power aware software.
References
 www.google.com
 www.scribd.com
 en.wikipedia.org
 www.posh.com

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