Wireless Sensor Systems for Extreme Environments
Habib F. Rashvand, Ali Abedi · 2017
This chapter describes earlier work on wireless sensor systems (WSSs) for space and other extreme environments, and provides an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. It analyses how to break away from conventional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by adopting an agile heterogeneous unconventional wireless sensing (UWS) deployment system. A comparative analysis is better than a simple definition of the terms, which often can vary upon application scenarios and its working environment. In many WSNs, the simplicity of the data collection can allow deployment of sensors on multi-service networks, in which densely distributed sensors and actuators are used for a wide range of applications. Management aspects of WSNs for time synchronization and cooperative collaboration of the nodes is important in space and extreme environments (SEEs). Medium access control (MAC) plays a crucial role in providing energy-efficient and low-delay communications for WSNs.