CONVERGENCE of WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS and 4th G MOBILE

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered the future of the Internet. IoT aims at providing an Internet connection to widely distributed devices with sensing or actuating capabilities. This would eventually lead to tightly integrating wireless sensor networks into the Internet that we are all familiar with nowadays. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be found in many applications today. Examples are surveillance, forest fire detection and combating, healthcare etc. The data collected by WSN devices can be of interest to many users which could be residing far away from where these networks are actually installed. Since these networks may be installed remotely where access to Internet infrastructure may not be easily available, we need some access technology that can provide the link between the two worlds. LTE, due to its unique characteristics which include internet protocol (IP) compatibility and relative ease of deployment, can play an important role in the IoT.