A wireless grid is characterized by the ad-hoc dynamic sharing of physical and virtual resources among heterogeneous devices. This paper reviews wireless grids standards development, in which the authors are engaged, and draws policy lessons from the emergent phenomenon to consider if they apply...

Timely and effective response to crises, disasters or infrastructure failures requires shared situational awareness on the part of decision makers and timely information exchange between all formal and informal participants. Enabling policymakers, law enforcement and citizens to interact in a...

A vast amount of literature and research work exists on Wireless Sensor Networks and the issues concerning them. In this paper, we have conducted an exploratory study on the sensor networks to begin with and the various issues and challenges faced in setting up and maintaining sensor networks....

Energy evaluation and planning are important in industry for overall energy savings. Traditionally these functions are realized in wired systems formed by communication cables and various types of sensors. However,the installation and maintenance of these cables and sensors is usually much more...

Continuous monitoring of production of yarn is an important process requirement for good productivity in a ring frame machine in textile industry. So, collecting the data on yarn breakages using an appropriate Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been taken as a research problem in this work. The...

Recent advancement and grown up technologies has enabled the development and implementation of low-cost, energy efficient and versatile sensor networks. Sensor networks are built up with sensors that have the ability to sense fiscal or environmental property. Assumption can be made that Wireless...

We categorized VPN's impact in to two different features; the affecting features, and affected feature. The affecting aspect of the impact encompass factors such as security, algorithms, hardware, and software. Whereas the affected feature of the like of network presentation. While VPN's have...