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Applications of Sensor Networks

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A wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of a large number of randomly deployed sensor nodes (SNs) was initially introduced for intrusion detection for tactical applications , and a scheme determining type and number of talks in a battlefield is shown in Fig. 2.1.

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Agrawal, D.P. (2017). Applications of Sensor Networks. In: Embedded Sensor Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3038-3_2

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