Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Wireless Sensing Networks: an overview of US development (16 Dec 2005) For those new to the area, a WSN is a network of wireless, distributed sensing devices, with a tiered computing architecture. WSN devices are typically low-powered radio devices with sensing and communication capabilities. The sensing devices used in WSN tend to be very small computers that include a battery, radio communicators, microcontroller and, depending on the application, the relevant sensor (eg temperature, pressure etc). The sensors form nodes or micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), which generally can self-organise and communicate with each other. WSN represent what has been referred to as the 'third paradigm' of computing, where technology is seamlessly and invisibly embedded within our environments, thus it becomes ubiquitous and pervasive. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art68.htm Read 150 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Beware the Automated Accessibility Tool Trap          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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