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<p>Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach, Second Edition provides the latest information on sensor networks, a rapidly emerging area of computer science and electrical engineering research. Because of advances in micro-sensors, wireless networking and embedded processing, ad hoc networks of sensor are becoming increasingly available for commercial, military, and homeland security applications. </p> <p>Examples include monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), infrastructures (i.e., power grid, water distribution, waste disposal) and battle awareness (e.g., multi-target tracking). This book introduces practitioners to the fundamental issues and technology constraints concerning various aspects of sensor networks, including as information organization, querying, routing, and self-organization using concrete examples and does so by using concrete examples from current research and implementation efforts.</p><br><br><ul><li>Written for practitioners, researchers, and students, and relevant to all application areas, including environmental monitoring, industrial sensing and diagnostics, automotive and transportation, security and surveillance, military and battlefield uses, and large-scale infrastructural maintenance</li><li>Skillfully integrates the many disciplines at work in wireless sensor network design, including signal processing and estimation, communication theory and protocols, distributed algorithms and databases, probabilistic reasoning, energy-aware computing, design methodologies, evaluation metrics, and more</li><li>Demonstrates how querying, data routing, and network self-organization can support high-level information-processing tasks</li></ul>