ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEMS USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of wirelessly sensor nodes that set with radio interface which they communicated via it with one another to form a network. Sensor nodes enable environment monitoring and data processing. The advance in both wireless sensor and data processing technologies gives environmental management systems the ability to monitor real-time remote location. Developments in sensor's technologies like embedded systems, distributed processing, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), wireless communications, and wireless sensor applications have contributed the transformation in WSNs recently. WSNs have improved work performance and they have been used in many fields especially for survey and monitoring in environmental monitoring systems (EMSs). This paper aims to introduce a brief overview of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that are used in the applications of environmental monitoring systems (EMSs).