A
sensor network is a computer network of many, spatially
distributed devices using sensors to monitor conditions
at different locations, such as temperature, sound, vibration,
pressure, motion or pollutants. These devices are usually
small and inexpensive, so that they can be produced and
deployed in large numbers, and so their resources in terms
of energy, memory, computational speed and bandwidth are
tightly constrained.
Sensor
networks involve three areas: sensing, communications, and
computation (hardware, software, algorithms).
Sensor
networks are applied in a wide variety of areas, such as
video surveillance, traffic monitoring, air traffic control,
robotics, cars, home and health monitoring and manufacturing
and industrial automation.
Eminent
Microsystems offers a complete range of products and services
specifically designed to meet the system development requirements
for the Sensor market. Our distinctive Embedded Software
framework (ESF) is a selection of optimized embedded software
libraries designed with abstraction architecture to provides
an efficient method of developing and managing embedded
projects and systems. ESF also allows legacy software components
to be easily linked in to new system development for incredible
flexibility and greatly reduced time to market.
Sensor
systems that ESF can improve include:
