Author(s) : Shih-Lin Wu & Yu-Chee Tseng
Publisher : Auerbach Publications
Date       : 2007
Pages     : 660
Format    : PDF
ISBN       : 0849392543

The rapid progress of mobile/wireless communication and embedded microsensing MEMS technologies leads us toward the dream “Ubiquitous/ Pervasive Computing.” Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) have been widely deployed in many cities and have become a requisite tool to many people in their daily lives. Wireless personal-area networks (WPANs) provide a cableless personal working area by using wireless interconnection among devices, such as personal computer, printer, personal digital assistant, and digital camera. A wireless sensor node is an integrated device which consists chiefly of a sensor part, a wireless communication part, and an information processing unit. Wireless sensor nodes can be deployed in a sensing field to monitor events that we are interested in. In particular, the human body could be a potential sensing field. By backing events in the body area, wearable sensor networks may greatly improve our daily life. By integrating these multidiscipline technologies into a pervasive system, we can access information and acquire computing resources anytime, anywhere with any device.

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