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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are ad-hoc networks in which small independent sensor nodes have limited energy, computational resources and wireless communication capabilities. Recently, both academia and industry have shown great interest in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks. This paper focuses on the practical applications in commerce and feasible future employment of WSNs. Continued advances of wireless communication technologies have led to the following fields of applications: habitat and environmental monitoring, security of buildings and property, oil and gas installations, mines and tunnels, emergency medical care, military applications. In the near future WSNs will certainly enter our homes and offices changing the way we monitor our nearest surrounding.
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Czubak, A., Wojtanowski, J. (2009). On Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Tkacz, E., Kapczynski, A. (eds) Internet – Technical Development and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05019-0_11
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