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The ubiquity of wireless links in our everyday life is increasing dramatically. One example of this is the emerging field of wireless sensor networks. This new field presents many opportunities and just as many challenges. One particularly difficult aspect of wireless sensing is the implementation of the radio link. This book will describe important transceiver characteristics that are unique to sensor network communication. Then, various novel solutions to these problems are presented. For example, to enable energy scavenging, a technique that harvests ambient energy to power the sensor node indefinitely, very low power levels (around 1mW) are necessary for the receiver. A vanishingly small form factor is also necessary, necessitating extremely high levels of integration and small antenna dimensions. For low-overhead communication in a bursty network environment, the transceiver turn-on and turnaround time must be extremely short. Ultra-Low Power Wireless Technologies for Sensor Networks is aimed at academic and professional engineers designing communication links for pervasive and low power applications.; New technologies are introduced, design techniques given, and theoretical limits are described. Design philosophies and experimental results from four leading sensor network hardware groups are presented. The topics presented here can be applied to sensor network transceiver design and extended to all low power, highly integrated radio applications.

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