This chapter is a review of how computational intelligence methods have been used to help
design various types of sensor networks. We examine wireless sensor networks, fixed …

During a disaster, emergency response operations can benefit from the establishment of a
wireless ad hoc network. We propose the use of autonomous robots that move inside a …

In order to monitor environmental conditions, a large quality of static sensors normally are
deployed randomly in large monitored area. Obviously, there are coverage holes distributed …

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), sensors form the network dynamically without help of
any infrastructure. The accidental death of the nodes due to technical failures or death due …

Adequate coverage is one of the main problems for sensor networks. The effectiveness of
distributed wireless sensor networks highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme …

Mobile robots equipped with wireless devices can prove very useful during emergency
response operations. We envision such robots that locate trapped civilians and initiate an ad …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are well suited to many applications, including
environment surveillance and target tracking. ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15. 4‐based standard …

The deployment of wireless sensor devices is one of the most fundamental and important
issues in wireless sensor network applications, and coverage is a chief consideration in …

It is an important issue to deploy sensors on the monitor area for wireless sensor networks.
There are many researches about this issue, and they address how to achieve efficient …

Sensor placement of a wireless sensor network has a significant impact on the network
performance, such as sensing coverage, communication costs and connectivity. Depending …