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Featuring contributions by researchers around the world, this book explores the state of the art in industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) and outlines future directions for research. It offers in-depth reviews of emerging and already-deployed applications and technologies, including radio and energy harvesting technologies. It also highlights technical challenges and design objectives and discusses issues critical to industrial applications, such as latency, fault tolerance, synchronization, network security, and cross-layer design. A chapter on standards emphasizes the need for specific wireless communication standards for industrial applications.
List of contents
Applications of Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Machine Condition Monitoring with Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Sensor Networks for Intelligent Transportation Applications: A Survey. Design Challenges and Objectives in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Resource Management and Scheduling in WSNs Powered by Ambient Energy Harvesting. Energy Harvesting Techniques for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Fault Tolerant Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Network Architectures for Delay Critical Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Network Synchronization in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Control Networks with Real-Time Constraints. Medium Access Control and Routing in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. QoS-Aware Routing for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Reliable and Robust Communications in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Network Security in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks in Industrial Applications. Industrial WSN Standards.
About the author
V. Çäri Güngör is an assistant professor and co-director of the Computer Networks and Mobile Communications Lab at the Department of Computer Engineering at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. Before joining Bahcesehir University, he worked at Eaton Corporation's Innovation Center in Wisconsin, USA as a project leader. Dr. Güngör has authored more than 50 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings, and has been serving as an editor, reviewer, and program committee member to numerous journals and conferences in these areas. He is also a co-recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Best Paper Award in 2012.
Gerhard P. Hancke has been engaged in engineering education, research, and management for more than 37 years. He is the program coordinator for computer engineering at the University of Pretoria and has played a major role in developing this program. He is the founder and head of the Advanced Sensor Networks Group, a collaborative initiative with the Meraka Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and also collaborates in research projects internationally. He has published more than 150 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. Before joining academia, he was a senior engineer with the South African Atomic Energy Board.
