Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Integrated systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with electric propulsion are emerging as state-of-the-art solutions for large …

Abstract Billions of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) passive tags are produced yearly
to identify goods remotely. New research and business applications are continuously …

This work is motivated by schemes of robot-sensor network cooperation where sensor
nodes—beacons—are used as landmarks for range-only (RO) simultaneous localization …

Wireless sensor network (WSN) environment monitoring and smart city applications present
challenges for maintaining network connectivity when, for example, dynamic events occur …

Sensor networks have proliferated because of their ease of deployment, low cost, and
lifespan. Traditional means of data harvesting are through a mesh network of intermediate …

Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks (LS-WSNs) are Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
composed of an impressive number of sensors, with inherent detection and processing …

Advances in communication technology and the miniaturization of electronics have led to
the emergence of Environmental Sensor Networks (ESN). ESNs are typically arrays of …

Abstract Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies make their use
as data collection (sink) feasible for practical applications of Wireless Sensor Networks …

This paper will go over community services, which are an Internet of Things application that
relates to a prototypical category of cyber-physical platforms with cooperating components …