05-03-2016, 09:29 AM
Wireless networking is an exciting area and it has completely invaded our homes and environment
during the last
decade due to cheap equipment
and easily implementable
standards.
In
1965 the co-founder of Intel Gordon Moore said that
the number
of transistors that could
be
fit onto an integrated circuit
would double every second year. This has later on been called
the
Moore’s
law and
since
this
statement
there has
been a doubling every
two years leading to
today’s
possible miniaturization
of
hardware. Sensor networks
with
small
energy-efficient
nodes
have become
reality and a whole new world
of applications has emerged.
In 1998 the
Smart
Dust project started at Berkeley in California
and run for three years. The goal of the
project
was to create
autonomous
sensing communication nodes
as big
as
a cubic
millimetre
[27]
to be used in a massively
distributed sensor
network. The application areas for this project
were diverse ranging from weather/seismological
monitoring
on Mars to smart office
spaces.
Because this
project was the
first of its
kind it is widely known
and several other big
projects
have theirs origin here.
