Low-power wireless sensor networks

Author

Min, Rex ; Bhardwaj, Manish ; Cho, Seong-Hwan ; Shih, Eugene ; Sinha, Amit ; Wang, Alice ; Chandrakasan, Anantha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

210

Abstract

Wireless distributed microsensor systems will enable fault tolerant monitoring and control of a variety of applications. Due to the large number of microsensor nodes that may be deployed and the need for long system lifetimes, replacing the battery is not an option. Sensor systems must utilize the minimal possible energy while operating over a wide range of operating scenarios. This paper presents an overview of the key technologies required for low-energy distributed microsensors. These include power aware computation/communication component technology, low-energy signaling and networking, system partitioning based on computation and communication tradeoffs, and a power aware software infrastructure

Keywords

distributed sensors; intelligent sensors; low-power electronics; microsensors; distributed microsensor systems; fault tolerant monitoring; low-energy distributed microsensors; low-energy signaling; microsensor nodes; minimal possible energy; operating scenarios; power aware computation; power aware software infrastructure; system lifetimes; system partitioning; wireless sensor networks; Batteries; Communication system software; Communications technology; Computer networks; Control systems; Fault tolerant systems; Microsensors; Monitoring; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 2001. Fourteenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0831-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVD.2001.902661

Filename

902661