Harvesting ambient environmental energy for wireless sensor networks: A survey

G Zhou, L Huang, W Li, Z Zhu - Journal of Sensors, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have grown dramatically and made a
great progress in many applications. But having limited life, batteries, as the power sources …

Towards efficient wireless video sensor networks: A survey of existing node architectures and proposal for a Flexi-WVSNP design

A Seema, M Reisslein - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The video capture, processing, and communication in wireless video sensor networks
critically depend on the resources of the nodes forming the sensor networks. We provide a …

Controlled sink mobility for prolonging wireless sensor networks lifetime

S Basagni, A Carosi, E Melachrinoudis, C Petrioli… - Wireless …, 2008 - Springer
This paper demonstrates the advantages of using controlled mobility in wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) for increasing their lifetime, ie, the period of time the network is able to …

Wireless sensor networks

JA Stankovic - computer, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The confluence of inexpensive wireless communication, computation, and sensing has
created a new generation of smart devices. Using tens to thousands of these devices in self …

LACAS: Learning automata-based congestion avoidance scheme for healthcare wireless sensor networks

S Misra, V Tiwari, MS Obaidat - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major challenges in wireless sensor network (WSN) research is to curb down
congestion in the network's traffic, without compromising with the energy of the sensor …

Event queries on correlated probabilistic streams

C Ré, J Letchner, M Balazinksa, D Suciu - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
A major problem in detecting events in streams of data is that the data can be imprecise (eg
RFID data). However, current state-ofthe-art event detection systems such as Cayuga [14] …

Holmes: A comprehensive anomaly detection system for daily in-home activities

E Hoque, RF Dickerson, SM Preum… - … Computing in Sensor …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in wireless sensor networks have enabled the monitoring of daily activities of
elderly people. The goal of these monitoring applications is to learn normal behavior in …

A system for ubiquitous fall monitoring at home via a wireless sensor network and a wearable mote

R Paoli, FJ Fernández-Luque, G Doménech… - Expert systems with …, 2012 - Elsevier
Accidental falls of our elderly, and physical injuries resulting, represent a major health and
economic problem. Falls are the most common cause of serious injuries and are a major …

Mobile gateway for ubiquitous health care system using zigbee and bluetooth

TH Laine, C Lee, H Suk - 2014 Eighth International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A ubiquitous health care system takes the advantage of portability and small size of wireless
sensor nodes to provide remote health care services and real-time health monitoring. A …

Verity: an ambient assisted living platform

J Winkley, P Jiang, W Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Consumer …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new and innovative system intended for the monitoring of the elderly and those requiring
passive care is developed, with a wrist-wearable wireless sensor node and a mobile …