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Wireless Sensor Network – Smart Dust – MOTE

Since I'm searching documentation about Wireless Sensor Networks, Smart Dust and MOTEs for a college paper, I am going to post there the results of my search. Let's introduce the topic: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are special networks where nodes are small, low-powered embedded systems with limited processing capabilities and wifi communication capabilities. Tipically the devices are placed in position at the setup time (for example, for structural monitoring in bridges or skyscrapers), or they can be placed on moving "things" (for example: patients in a medical appliance, wild animals in a environmental monitoring appliance and so on). Sometimes the sensors are literally thrown over a wide area (Smart Dust), for example in military surveillance applications.