A

SEMINAR
ON
WIRELESS SENSOR
NETWORK
Presented by:
Suresh R
Reg: 397CS06054
 What Is Wireless Sensor Network ?

 wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed 

autonomous sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or
environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound
, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants

 The development of wireless sensor networks was motivated

by military applications such as battlefield surveillance and
are now used in many industrial and civilian application
areas, including industrial process monitoring and control,
machine health monitoring, environment and habitat
monitoring, healthcare applications, home automation, and
traffic control
 The challenges in the hierarchy of: WSN

detecting the relevant quantities,

monitoring and collecting the data,
assessing and evaluating the information,
formulating meaningful user displays,
and
performing decision-making and alarm
functions are enormous.
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COMPLETE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION OF WSN

Consist of three major components

SENSOR NODE

TRANSCEIVER

A CENTRAL UNIT
 SENSOR NODE

A sensor node, also known as a 'mote‘

(chiefly in North America), is a node

in a wireless sensor network that is capable

of performing some processing, gathering

sensory information and communication

with other connected nodes in the network

 Components of a Sensor Node
 Microcontroller

 Transceiver

 Memory

 Ram (random access memory)

 Rom (read only memory )

 Power source

 One or more sensors.

 Advantage
•  Limited power they can harvest or store
•  Ability to withstand harsh environmental
conditions
•  Ability to cope with node failures
•  Mobility of nodes
•  Dynamic network topology
•  Communication failures
•  Heterogeneity of nodes
•  Low cost
•  Low power
•  Small size
 Disadvantage
 Short communication distanc

 Its damn easy for hackers to hack it as we cant

control propagation of waves

 Comparatively low speed of communication

 Gets distracted by various elements like Blue-tooth

 Still Costly at large

 Application
� Industrial control & monitoring

� Health care

� Security & military surveillance

� Environmental sensing

� Home automation & consumer electronics

Security and militry survilance
 Conclusion
• To realize the ubiquitous computing in human life a sensor network may
be the powerful
• tool, because they can be deployed at the places where a man can not
reach.
• However it is
• negative sides also because the power of sensor node can not be
refreshed.To realize the power
• control and power saving every layer take care of that. At Physical layer
modulation schemes are
• chosen according to that. At MAC layer contention free schemes are
used. At
• Network layer multihop routing and data centric routing is used. At the
time when guaranteed delivery is required TCP can also be used.
• TCP is used in addition to link layer retransmission. Software which is
used on application layer
• also should be power aware software.
 References:
• www.google.com
• www.scribd.com
• en.wikipedia.org
• www.posh.com