Radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are two
fundamental pillars that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). RFID systems are able to identify …

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a quickly growing innovative wireless data capturing
technology for automatic identification, product tracing, security investigation, automatic toll …

Unquestionably, communicating entities (object, or things) in the Internet of Things (IoT)
context are playing an active role in human activities, systems and processes. The high …

The continuous development and improvement of low-power wireless communication
technologies is enabling the emergence of many new applications in the field of the Internet …

A large class of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) applications involve a set of isolated
urban areas (eg, urban parks or building blocks) covered by sensor nodes (SNs) monitoring …

Connectivity and area coverage are two essential criteria for improving the Quality of Service
(QoS) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These criteria strongly affect lifetime and …

Abstract In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), routing data towards the sink leads to
unbalanced energy consumption among intermediate nodes resulting in high data loss rate …

This chapter presents an overview of many wearable devices of different types that have
been proven in medical and home environments as being helpful in Quality of Life …

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has enabled a new class of low cost,
wireless zero-power sensors, which open up applications in highly pervasive and distributed …

One of the imperative problems in the realm of wireless sensor networks is the problem of
wireless sensors localization. Despite the fact that much research has been conducted in …