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What is Sensor Node

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A Sensor node is a small and inexpensive device with limited resources of battery and computation power which are deployed in a region to monitor the environment.
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Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
Yasir Saleem (Sunway University, Malaysia) and Mubashir Husain Rehmani (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch606
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Innovative Model of Internet of Things for Industrial Applications
A sensor node is a small electronic device that is designed to collect and transmit data from the environment or surrounding area. It usually consists of a sensor, a microcontroller, a wireless communication module, and a power source.
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Hierarchical Wireless Networks of Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications
A sensor node is a device that possesses the capacity to gather sensor information from the environment, process the information and communicate with other nodes.
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IoT Underwater Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring
Is a physical sensor deployed in the UWSN for gathering and processing sensory information for underwater environment.
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Performance Improvement of Clustered WSN by Using Multi-Tier Clustering
Sensor nodes have the ability to gather sensory information, sense, process data and communicating with one another. It is a large number of inexpensive, small, low-power communication devices.
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Application of Computational Intelligence Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks the State of the Art
A sensor node is a node in a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other connected nodes in the network.
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Internet of Things Applications for Healthcare
A node in a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other nodes connected to the network. The main components of a sensor node are a microcontroller, transceiver, external memory, power source and one or more sensors.
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Genetic Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
Network node with components for sensing, data processing and communication.
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Internet of Things in Healthcare as an Innovative Form of Personalized Medicine
A node in a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering of sensory information and communicating with other nodes connected in the network. The main components of a sensor node are a microcontroller, transceiver, external memory, power source and one or more sensors.
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An Introduction to Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
A sensor node is a type of transducer that uses one type of energy, a signal of some sort, and converts it into a reading for the purpose of information transfer. Furthermore, it possesses the capacity of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other connected sensors in the network.
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