Wireless Sensor Networks – Deployment Strategies for Outdoor Monitoring

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) overcome the difficulties of other
monitoring systems because they require no human attendance on
site, provide real time interaction with events, and maintain efficient
cost and power operations. However, further efficiencies are required
especially in the case of Outdoor Environment Monitoring (OEM)
applications due to their harsh operational conditions, huge targeted
areas, limited energy budgets, and required three-dimensional (3-D)
setups. A fundamental issue in defeating these practical challenges is
the deployment planning of the WSNs. The deployment plan is a key
factor of many intrinsic properties of OEM networks, summarized
in connectivity, lifetime, fault-tolerance, and cost-effectiveness. In
this book, we investigate the problem of WSNs’ deployments which
address these properties in order to overcome the unique challenges
and circumstances in OEM applications.