COURSES

Goals

Objectives: - knowing the architecture of the sensor node, - understanding the principles and knowing the standards of wireless and wired links in sensor networks, - knowing the steps required for design of sensor networks, - comparing and choosing the problem adequate sensor networks and building components of sensor node. Competences: - ability for comparative analysis for selecting appropriate elements of sensor node, prebuilt sensor nodes and communication technology for sensor nodes interconnection, - ability of the problem adequate design of the sensor network architecture, - construction of an operational sensor network using available building blocks, - consideration of restricted capabilities of sensor nodes and technologies for interconnection of sensor nodes.

Curriculum

- Applications of sensor networks in environment monitoring, precision agriculture, smart buildings, health care, security and surveillance, smart grids and energy control, industrial applications. - Architecture of the sensor node and comparison of its building components including micro controllers, type of memory, energy sources, sensors and communication interfaces. - Overview, comparison and selection of technology/standard/protocol in wired sensor networks. - Overview, comparison and selection of technology/standard/protocol in wireless sensor networks including study of challenges and constrains of physical layer, MAC layer, network layer, time synchronization and localization. - Detailed individual study of a real case from student’s research work.