An exquisitely illustrated collection of historical guides to creating pigments from flowers and plantsFlowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract and create rich blue and purple pigments from them. Humans have been extracting dyes and inks from natural materials for millennia, and the practice was firmly established during the medieval era, recorded in manuscrip...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additi

The authoritative, general reference that has been sorely missing in the field of mobile computingThis book teaches all the main topics via the hottest applications in a rapidlygrowing field."Big picture" explanations of ad hoc networks and service discoveryExercises, projects, and solutions to illustrate core conceptsExtensive wireless security methodologies

This book provides a comprehensive yet easy coverage of ad hoc and sensor networks and fills the gap of existing literature in this growing field. It emphasizes that there is a major interdependence among various layers of the network protocol stack. Contrary to wired or even one-hop cellular networks, the lack of a fixed infrastructure, the inherent mobility, the wireless channel, and the underlying routing mechanism by ad hoc and sensor networks introduce a number of technological challe...

This brief provides an overview of recent developments in multi-hop routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It introduces the various classifications of routing protocols and lists the pros and cons of each category, going beyond the conceptual overview of routing classifications offered in other books. Recently many researchers have proposed numerous multi-hop routing protocols and thereby created a need for a book that provides its readers with an up-to-date road map of th...

Rapid progress in software, hardware, mobile networks, and the potential of interactive media poses many questions for researchers, manufacturers, and operators of wireless multimedia communication systems. Wireless Multimedia Communication Systems: Design, Analysis, and Implementation strives to answer those questions by not only covering the underlying concepts involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of wireless multimedia communication systems, but also by ...

Building Wireless Sensor Networks: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives presents the state of the art of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge technologies.Focusing on WSN topics ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, this book:Provides essential knowledge of the contemporary theory and practice of wireless sensor networkingDescribes WSN architectures, protocols, and operating systems

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled rapid enhancements for applications, not only in home and environment scenarios, but also in factory automation. Now, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers all the advantages of IoT to industry, with applications ranging from remote sensing and actuating, to de-centralization and autonomy.In this book, the editor presents the IIoT and its place during the new industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) as it takes us to a bet...

This book provides a collection of high-quality research works that address broad challenges in both theoretical and applied aspects of dynamic wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for intelligent and smart applications in a variety of environments. It presents the most central concepts associated with Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks applications, and discusses issues surrounding Wireless Sensor Network Structures for complex and mobile-based applications. The book subsequently discusses sever...

During the last one and a half decades, wireless sensor networks have witnessed significant growth and tremendous development in both academia and industry.“The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 1: Fundamentals” focuses on the fundamentals concepts in the design, analysis, and implementation of wireless sensor networks. It covers the various layers of the lifecycle of this type of network from the physical layer up to the application layer. Its rationale is that the first vol...

This book covers wireless communication, security issues, advanced wireless sensor networks (WSNs), routing protocols of WSNs with cross-layer solutions, emerging trends in the advanced WSNs, power management, distributed sensing and data gathering techniques for WSNs, WSNs security, applications, research of advanced WSNs with simulation results, and simulation tools for WSNs.Features:Covers technologies supporting advanced wireless communication sys...

The book deals with the conceptual and practical knowledge of the latest tools and methodologies of hardware development for Internet of Things (IoT) and variety of real-world challenges. The topics cover the state-of-the-art and future perspectives of IoT technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics had shared ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough, and innovative solutions and applications.Several aspects of various hardware tech...