Sensing and Environment Concepts

Abstract

This chapter provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental aspects of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), covering both theoretical concepts and practical aspects of sensing process and its role and the sensors, also, and the environment tem concept with WSN relation. The chapter also, focuses on the two sensing wireless networks relation. The WSN concepts and motivations are discussed in this chapter. It presents the sensing definitions with its devices. The relation between the wireless ad hoc network and the WSN concepts is described in this chapter.

WSN is a real time wireless network compositing a group of devices “sensors”. These networks are devoted for monitoring the surround environment. WSN is wireless network can be merged in different human life activities. It can be present intelligent physical contact between the ambient mediums of the environment and the made-man medium. This physical join in general lets the specialist to monitor and control the fluctuations in the surrounding environment and to avoid the possible consequences. The tremendous advances in the WSN applications and variety of applicable fields coincides with the rapid developing in the wireless networks technology as well as the manufacturing of mechanical-microelectronics advances.