In the recent past we have observed many technological revolutions, including the transition from the analog world into its digital
counterpart and from centralized wired solutions to distributed and pervasive wireless systems. In particular, the advent of lowcost
and low-power transceivers, together with the development of compact-size and open standard stacks, have made possible
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), largely adopted for both home/office and industrial monitoring applications. The nowadays
ambitious goal is to sample, collect and analyze every piece of information around us, in order to improve production efficiency
and ensure optimal resource consumption. The “Internet of Things” (IoT), i.e. the capability of connecting every possible device
to the World Wide Web, is the practical answer to this request. The very large amount of information that is consequently
generated could be profitably handled using “cloud” services, i.e. flexible and powerful hardware/software frameworks capable
to deliver computing as a service. The aim of this work is to resume pros and cons of well-accepted WSN technologies,
suggesting their possible extension towards already available cloud services.
In the recent past we have observed many technological revolutions, including the transition from the analog world into its digitalcounterpart and from centralized wired solutions to distributed and pervasive wireless systems. In particular, the advent of lowcostand low-power transceivers, together with the development of compact-size and open standard stacks, have made possibleWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), largely adopted for both home/office and industrial monitoring applications. The nowadaysambitious goal is to sample, collect and analyze every piece of information around us, in order to improve production efficiencyand ensure optimal resource consumption. The “Internet of Things” (IoT), i.e. the capability of connecting every possible deviceto the World Wide Web, is the practical answer to this request. The very large amount of information that is consequentlygenerated could be profitably handled using “cloud” services, i.e. flexible and powerful hardware/software frameworks capableto deliver computing as a service. The aim of this work is to resume pros and cons of well-accepted WSN technologies,suggesting their possible extension towards already available cloud services.
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