ABSTRACT
Recent advances in computing technology have led to the production of a new class of computing device: the wireless, battery powered, smart sensor. Traditional sensors deployed throughout buildings, labs, and equipment are passive devices that simply modulate a voltage based on some environmental parameter. In contrast, these new sensors are active, full ºedged computers, capable not only of sampling real world phenomena but also ¢ltering, sharing, and combining those sensor readings with each other and nearby Internet-equipped endpoints.
