Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks
Deborah L. Estrin, David Culler, Kristofer S. J. Pister, Gaurav S. Sukhatme · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 2002
This article addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting the physical world with pervasive networks of sensor-rich, embedded computation. The authors present a taxonomy of emerging systems and outline the enabling technological developments.