Applying Sensor Networks in Home Technologies

Purpose of Sensors?

  1. Sensors might detect the location/position of the target object
  2. Sensors might monitor the status of the target object i.e. how much milk is in the refrigerator
  3. Sensor might measure various environmental parameters such as temperature, light, humidity, noise
  4. Some sensors might work as backbone sensors. They will only route sensed data (of other sensors) to some upper level sensors or to the servers/gateways
  5. Some sensors might serve both of the purposes mentioned above
  6. Sensors might transfer sensed data from the participant to the servers (if any)
  7. Sensors might transfer server commands to the devices
  8. Sensors (attached to the devices) might operate devices according to server commands
  9. Sensors (attached to the devices) might operate devices according to user presence/commands/location/identity/preferences