title: Wireless Sensor Networks A Systems Perspective (Artech House Mems and Sensors Library)
author:  Nirupama Bulusu 
description: Nirupama Bulusu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University. An author of numerous highly cited publications on sensor networks, she received her Ph.D in Computer Science in 2002 from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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  Internet of Things:
  Wireless Sensor Networks
   
  White Paper
  
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  Today, smart grid, smart homes, smart water 
  networks, intelligent transportation, are infrastruc-
  ture systems that connect our world more than we 
  ever thought possible. The common vision of such 
  systems is usually associated with one single con-
  cept, the internet of things (IoT), where through the 
  use of sensors, the entire physical infrastructure is 
  closely coupled with information and communica-
  tion technologies; where intelligent monitoring and 
  management can be achieved via the usage of net-
  worked embedded devices. In such a sophisticat-
  ed dynamic system, devices are interconnected to 
  transmit useful measurement information and con-
  trol instructions via distributed sensor networks.
  A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network 
  formed by a large number of sensor nodes where 
  each node is equipped with a sensor to detect 
  physical phenomena such as light, heat, pressure, 
  etc. WSNs are regarded as a revoluti