Implementing Reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Networks: The Embedded Operating System Approach

Remote monitoring and control are vital in ensuring the efficiency and safety of entities beneficial to man and his environment. These entities cut across oil and gas, biomedical, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, security, the Armed forces (Military, Navy, and Air force) etc. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being used to effectively carry out the aforementioned task. Implementing WSN application might involve the deployment of hundreds or sometimes thousands of wireless sensor nodes to remote and inaccessible locations. A few examples of theses scenario can be related to the following: surveillance (e.g. international Border Monitoring, Littoral operations), environmental monitoring (e.g. Dam collapsing and flooding, earthquake early warning, avoiding Forest fire disaster), liquid (oil and water) and gas pipeline monitoring, etc. When operational needs changes or new functionalities are required in such scenario, reconfiguration of either the entire network or individual sensor nodes becomes inevitable. The inability to effect these changes could pose a serious challenge to the continued operation of the entire system. Other issues that could warrant the need for a reconfigurable WSN are bug fixes, regular code updates, update in response to security challenges, flexibility in adopting energy and performance efficient RF communication link or interface, efficient energy management, etc.

• Publication year

  2012

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2012-03-16

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5772/38420
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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