Smart Sensors Networks: Communication Technologies and Intelligent Applications

Smart Sensors Networks: Communication Technologies and Intelligent Applications explores the latest sensor and sensor networks techniques and applications, showing how networked wireless sensors are used to monitor and gather intelligence from our surrounding environment.

It provides a systematic look at the unique characteristics of wireless sensor networks through their usage in a broad range of areas, including healthcare for the elderly, energy consumption, industrial automation, intelligent transportation systems, smart homes and cities, and more.

The book shows how sensor-networks work and how they are applied to monitor our surrounding environment. It explores the most important aspects of modern sensors technologies, providing insights on the newest technologies and the systems needed to operate them.

Readers will find the book to be an entry point for understanding the fundamental differences between the various sensor technologies and their use in for different scenarios.

Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to EI-Compendex and SCOPUS

Presents numerous specific use-cases throughout, showing practical applications of conceptsContains contributions from leading experts around the globeCollects, in one place, the latest thinking on an emerging topicAddresses the security and privacy issues inherent in sensor deployment

1. Near Field Communication Technology and Applications 2. Radio Frequency Identification Principles and Applications 3. Sensor Data Compression 4. How to Integrate Sensors and the Internet of Things 5. Sensors and Intelligent Transportation 6. Smart Antennas for Sensors 7. Sensors-Based Emerging Technologies for Revealing Security and Privacy Issues 8. Sensors Applications in Smart Homes 9. Sensor Applications in Industrial Automation 10. How Sensors and Big Data Are Revolutionizing Business 11. How Wireless Sensor Networks help Elderly Healthcare 12. Energy Consumption in Sensors