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Multiple wireless sensor networks enabling business processes

According to Schaap .H and MARK .IR .J .J . BIJL (2007 , quantity and quality are the two most important factors due to which companies want to optimize and improve their line of products . It is used in office and home environments , logistics and is also used in production processes within a factory . Real time information is obtained and it helps in improving production processes

Tsetsos , V , Alyfantis , G , Hasiotis , T , Sekkas , O . and Hadjiefthymiades , S (2005 ) studied the opportunity of sensor networks in commercial

applications . Some of the applications are health monitoring system , traffic monitoring system . These sensors use mobile networks , application service providers and technical frameworks , so that the business process can facilitate and adapt to the business requirements

Enwall . T (2006 ) in his mentions that Wireless Sensor Networks are the next great frontier . This technology has many possibilities available to everyone irrespective of the geographic location . These build bridges between the physical world ' and the enterprise computing system ' at very low costs . These are nothing but integrated digitised networks opening up lots of possibilities where it was difficult to even imagine . They have a lot of potential applications and fundamental areas that can benefit business processes

Lecklider . T (2008 ) mentions many examples that use Multiple Wireless Sensor Networks in business processes , some of them are for military surveillance , self-organizing networks and autonomous wireless sensors and remotely monitoring of vehicular movement . Another example is ZigBee which eliminates the basic need for office building wiring for all control processes . The process of m\having sensors helps in cutting costs and reducing labour and can be used in areas where human intervention is expensive or plain impossible . They are reliable and require batteries with long life . Wireless refers to not only wiring but also power and even control of all processes . Niek Van Dierdonck , vice president (strategy and product management ) at GreenPeak has expressed that the company has developed an ultralow-power strategy ' with an effort to make all sensors truly wireless . The architecture and standards used are as follows- Self Configuring Nodes , Self-Healing to reduce redundancy , Star network for peer-peer communication , Router Star Network connections and ISA-SP100 , IEEE 802 .15 .4 and WiHART standards

From the research done it is clear to understand that Wireless Sensor Networks is a network of many sensors that are connected to each other wirelessly within a network . These sensors are individual and autonomous processes . These sensors or processes have their own , processors , memory and source of energy . These sensors can therefore collect data and trigger series of events . These sensors are small and can communicate only over a few hundred meters . These sensors can be connected to other bigger systems of an external network . These Wireless Sensory Networks enable running of business process efficiently and effectively

These are much more sophisticated than RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification ) technology . Sensors are used in monitoring , controlling tracking and tracing of products through business processes . They get information out of the environment...