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Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Research: A Survey on Limitations and Challenges Host Publication: IEEE EUROCON 2013 Authors: A. De La Piedra, F. Javier Benitez Capistros, F. Dominguez and A. Touhafi Publisher: IEEE Publication Date: Jul. 2013 ISBN: 978-1-4673-2230-0
Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have permeated
the entire fabric of academic disciplines that greatly rely on
control and decision-making processes such as medical health
care, agriculture, ecology and industrial automation. In ecol-
ogy, an infrastructure consisting of networks of interconnected
sensors can provide in-situ high-precision monitoring of natural
phenomena at a large-scale. Moreover, WSNs provide a num-
ber of advantages to ecoinformatics such as the possibility of
constructing quality data-sets that coupled to machine learning-
based prediction systems, can be used for ecological and process
modelling. In this manuscript, we present a survey on recent
WSNs based on several fields related to environmental research
e.g. ecoinformatics, precision agriculture and wildlife observation.
Finally, we have focused on the identification of limitations and
open problems therein.
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