Design considerations for distributed microsensor systems

Abstract

Wireless distributed microsensor systems will1 enable the reliable monitoring and control of a variety of applications that range from medical and home security to machine diagnosis, chemical/biological detectiion and other military applications. The sensors have to be designed in a highly integrated fashion, optimizing across all levels of system abstraction, with the goal of rninimizing energy dissipation. This paper addresses some of the key design considerations for future microsensor f* .>y stems including the network protocols required for collalborative sensing and information distribution, system partitioning considering computation and communication costs, low energy electronics, power system design and energy harvesting techniques. IEEE 1999 CUSTOM INTEGRATED CIRCUITS CONFERENCE 0-7803-5443-5/99/$10.0001999 IEEE

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