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Research Issues in Wireless Sensor Network Applications: A Survey

T. Arachelvi

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used in variety of fields which includes military, healthcare, environmental, biological, home and other commercial applications. With the huge advancement in the field of embedded computer and sensor technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), which is composed of several thousands of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing, actuating, and relaying the collected information, have made remarkable impact everywhere. This paper presents an overview of the various research issues in WSN based applications.

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Wireless Sensor Network, Task Mapping, Smart Parking, Event Detection, SHM, Greenhouse Monitoring, Health Care, C4ISRT.

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