Wide-area long-range unidirectional sensor (WALRUS) network

• Published in: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems Conference, 2005 pp. 9 pp. - 404
• Main Authors: Vannucci, G., Leigh, D., Katz, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Batteries; Biosensors; Chemical and biological sensors; Control systems; Monitoring; Receivers; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems and applications; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless sensor networks

Networks consisting of low-cost wireless sensors have been the subject of extensive research, with applications ranging from environmental monitoring to building control systems, to name a few. In this paper we consider networks intended to provide wide area coverage of one or more physical, chemica...