Wireless sensor and actor networks: research challenges

By Ian F. Akyildiz, Ismail Hakki Kasimoglu. Ad hoc networks, 2004

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Distributed Collaborative Control for Industrial Automation With Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (2010, background): “Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) introduce actuators with wireless capability to WSNs to enable wireless and networked control, actuating, and feedback [2].”
A survey on wireless multimedia sensor networks (2007, background): “In the recently proposed Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) [20] paradigm, the ability of the actors to perceive the environment can be pushed one step further: a dense spatio-temporal sampling of the environment, provided by a predeployed sensor network, can be exploited by the whole team o”
Wireless mesh networks: a survey (2005, background): “This type of WMNs includes mesh routers forming an infrastructure for clients that connect to them.”
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey (2009, background): “Mobility of sensor nodes is actually feasible, and it can be accomplished in different ways [2].”
On the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (2009, background): “…routing and data dissemination schemes [Akkaya and Younis 2005], self-organization issues [Dressler 2008], the ef.cient deployment of sensor nodes [Bai et al. 2006], and the interaction of sensor and actor networks (SANETs) [Akyildiz and Kasimoglu 2004], while others are still works in progress.”
A survey on bio-inspired networking (2010, background): “Sensor and Actor Networks (SANETs) architecturally incorporate both heterogeneous low-end sensor nodes and highly capable actor nodes [7, 10]; and Vehicular Ad Hoc”
An Industrial Perspective on Wireless Sensor Networks — A Survey of Requirements, Protocols, and Challenges (2014, background): “With the use of WSAN, the entire control loop can be automated, saving largely on CAPEX and OPEX.”
Wireless sensor networks for agriculture: The state-of-the-art in practice and future challenges (2015, background): “(i) Intelligent decision making capability: WSNs are multi-hop in nature (Akyildiz et al., 2002a,b; Akyildiz and Kasimoglu, 2004).”
Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges (2012, background): “In particular, the proposed classiﬁcation includes devices considered in RFID research [8] as well as those considered in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and sensor/actor networks (SANETs) [9,10].”
A Cloud-Based Smart-Parking System Based on Internet-of-Things Technologies (2015, methodology): “The system will update the status from the WSN node (the status of car park spaces) when a new car joins in the system.”