Sensing of the application environment is the main purpose of a wireless sensor network.
Most existing energy management strategies and compression techniques assume that the …

In the last years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained increasing attention from
both the research community and actual users. As sensor nodes are generally battery …

Real-world actions occur often in crowded, dynamic environments. This poses a difficult
challenge for current approaches to video event detection because it is difficult to segment …

The energy problem in wireless sensor networks remains one of the major barriers
preventing the complete exploitation of this technology. Sensor nodes are typically powered …

Energy conservation techniques for wireless sensor networks generally assume that data
acquisition and processing have energy consumption that is significantly lower than that of …

Context Adaptive monitoring is a method used in a variety of domains for responding to
changing conditions. It has been applied in different ways, from monitoring systems' …

This book was written having in mind researchers, practitioners, and students willingly to
learn, understand, or perfect the fundamental mechanisms behind intelligence and how they …

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents one of the fastest emerging trends in the area of
information and communication technology. The main challenge in the IoT is the timely …

Wireless sensor nodes have a limited power budget, though they are often expected to be
functional in the field once deployed for extended periods of time. Therefore, minimization of …

Careful energy management is a prerequisite for long-term, unattended operation of solar-
harvesting sensing systems. We observe that in many applications the utility of sensed data …