Sensor Webs in the Wild
K. A. Delin · AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2004
In October 2001, a new era in wireless sensor systems began when the NASA Sensor Web, deployed at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in Southern California, went online. For the first time, it was possible for a person with nothing more than a computer, an Internet connection, and a standard browser to watch streaming, real-time data generated by an ad hoc wireless networked system permanently embedded in an outdoor environment. Wireless networked systems, Sensor Webs in particular, are only just beginning to change the ways in which we can sense, monitor and control large spatial areas.