Description:
Featuring contributions by researchers around the world, this book explores the state of the art in industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) and outlines future directions for research. It offers in-depth reviews of emerging and already-deployed applications and technologies, including radio and energy harvesting technologies. It also highlights technical challenges and design objectives and discusses issues critical to industrial applications, such as latency, fault tolerance, synchronization, network security, and cross-layer design. A chapter on standards emphasizes the need for specific wireless communication standards for industrial applications.
Review Quotes:
"... an excellent book edited and coauthored by world-renowned specialists. ... The textbook offers an in-depth state of the art in sensor network technologies for industry applications while also dealing with emerging and already-deployed industrial wireless sensor network applications and technologies. ... All the chapters are easy to read, and hundreds of references are provided at the end of each chapter. ... Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols, and Standards is a valuable tool for students, practicing engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and scientists working in the areas of sensor networks and devices, industrial computer and sensor networks, instrumentation, and electrical and computer engineering."
--Fernando A. Silva, from IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, December 2014