Description
Key Features:
- Offers a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical and practical concepts pertaining to wireless sensor networks
- Explains the constraints and challenges of wireless sensor network design; and discusses the most promising solutions
- Provides an in-depth treatment of the most critical technologies for sensor network communications, power management, security, and programming
- Reviews the latest research results in sensor network design, and demonstrates how the individual components fit together to build complex sensing systems for a variety of application scenarios
- Includes an accompanying website containing solutions to exercises (http://www.wiley.com/go/dargie_fundamentals)
This book serves as an introductory text to the field of wireless sensor networks at both graduate and advanced undergraduate level, but it will also appeal to researchers and practitioners wishing to learn about sensor network technologies and their application areas, including environmental monitoring, protection of civil infrastructure, health care, precision agriculture, traffic control, and homeland security.
About the Author
Professor Dargie completed his BSc in Electrical and Electronics Technology at Nazareth Technical College, Ethiopia, and obtained an MSc in Electrical Engineering at Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany. He completed his PhD in Computer Engineering at Dresden University of Technology, Germany, where he works today as a Researcher for the Faculty of Computer Science.
Book Information
ISBN 9780470997659
Author Waltenegus Dargie
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 709g
Dimensions(mm) 251mm * 175mm * 29mm