Title :
Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks
Author :
Estrin, Deborah ; Culler, David ; Pister, Kris ; Sukhatme, Gaurav
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
This article addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting the physical world with pervasive networks of sensor-rich, embedded computation. The authors present a taxonomy of emerging systems and outline the enabling technological developments.
Keywords :
embedded systems; mobile computing; network interfaces; sensors; wireless LAN; device interconnection; emerging systems taxonomy; enabling technological developments; instrumentation; pervasive networks; physical world; sensor-rich embedded computation; ubiquitous computing; Computer networks; Computer vision; Data acquisition; Data engineering; Embedded computing; Instruments; Joining processes; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Taxonomy;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2002.993145
