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We establish a wireless sensor network that emulates biological neuronal structures for the purpose of creating smart spaces. Two different types of wireless nodes working together are used to mimic the behaviour of a neuron consisting of dendrites, soma and synapses. The transmission among nodes that establish such a neuron structure is established by distributed beamforming techniques to enable simultaneous information transmission among neurons. Through superposition of transmission signals, data from neighbouring nodes is perceived as background noise and does not interfere. In this way we show that beamforming and computation on the channel can be powerful tools to establish intelligent sensing systems even with minimal computational power.
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Sigg, S. et al. (2012). Neuron Inspired Collaborative Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Puiatti, A., Gu, T. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_28
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