In wireless environments, transmission and reception costs dominate system power
consumption, motivating research effort on new technologies capable of reducing the …

Microsystems with capabilities of acoustic signal perception and recognition are widely used
in unattended monitoring applications. In order to realize long-term and large-scale …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently used in many wireless sensor network
(WSN) applications. Conventionally, the WSN's energy consumption is considered as one of …

Wireless sensor networks are deployed in many monitoring applications but still suffer from
short lifetimes originating from limited energy sources and storages. Due to their low-power …

IEEE 802.11 is one of the most commonly used radio access technologies, being present in
almost all handheld devices with networking capabilities. However, its energy-hungry …

With the advancements in underwater wireless communications, internet of underwater
things (IoUT) realization is inevitable to enable many practical applications, such as …

In order to improve the logistics problem, taking automated logistics system as research
platform, a new optimization algorithm is proposed for the route planning of multi-goods …

Internet of Things sensor nodes, which integrate information acquisition, processing,
exchange, and execution modules, have widely been used for unattended industrial …

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is mainly enabled by wireless sensor networks (WSNs),
which are continuously gaining attention, due to their multidisciplinary applications. To …

In recent years wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained significant attention because
of their implementation in many different fields. As the nodes in WSNs are typically battery …