Sensornets and the Next Big Thing

John Heidemann
USC/Information Sciences Institute

Abstract

The last eight years have seen huge progress in sensornet technologies: small computers and sensors costing tens of dollars, tiny operating systems running in hundreds of bytes of memory, short-range radios consuming minimal power, and multi-hop networks covering local areas. As sensornet research continues, one tend is ``bigger'': more powerful computers and sensors, higher-level operating systems services, mixes of radio technologies, and wide-area networks connecting sensornets in global deployments. This talk will look at these trends in new applications, and explore what principles from small sensornets carry on.

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Reference

Heidemann07b

John Heidemann. Sensornets and the Next Big Thing. Keynote talk at the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks. January, 2007. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann07b.html>.

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