Wireless Heterogeneous Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things

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In recent years, advances in miniaturization; low-power circuit design; simple, low power, yet reasonably efficient wireless communication equipment; and improved small-scale energy supplies have combined with reduced manufacturing costs to make a new technological vision possible: Wireless sensor networks. A sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor/actuator nodes, which are densely deployed either inside the phenomenon or very close to it. The position of nodes need not be engineered or pre-determined. This allows random deployment in inaccessible terrains or disaster relief operation. The aim is to develop and facilitate the use of scalable and modular wireless heterogeneous sensor/actuator networks in the e-Society. The proposed research is to advance fundamentally the tools we have developed in the past for Wireless Sensor Network Applications. In particular, the focus will be on Wireless Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (WHSNs) for the Internet of Things (IOT). The goal is to develop and facilitate the use of scalable, modular, reliable, secure and cost effective WHSNs in order to meet the increasing variety of applications in the emerging e-Society. The objective is to develop network architectures along with supporting protocols and algorithms and network control mechanisms for supporting sensors/actuators interoperating via different types of wireless networks.