Title: Wireless sensor network monitoring system: architecture, applications and future directions

Authors: Maroua Abdelhafidh; Mohamed Fourati; Lamia Chaari Fourati; Abdessalam Chouaya

Addresses: Laboratory of Technology of Smart Systems (LT2S), Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), B.P. 275, Sakiet Ezzit, 3021 Sfax, Tunisia; National Engineering School of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia ' Laboratory of Technology of Smart Systems (LT2S), Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), B.P. 275, Sakiet Ezzit, 3021 Sfax, Tunisia; Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia ' Laboratory of Technology of Smart Systems (LT2S), Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), B.P. 275, Sakiet Ezzit, 3021 Sfax, Tunisia; Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia ' Tunisian Chemical Group, Gafsa, Tunisia

Abstract: Wireless sensor network monitoring systems (WSNMS) have emerged as one of the most promising research area due to reliable technology progress related to the deployed sensors. This solution is efficiently involved with advanced technologies such as internet of things (IoT) and physical cyber system (CPS) that are designed as a bridge connecting the real world to the digital world. This survey gives a holistic view of WSNMS based on a recent state of the art. We address WSNMS applications and its challenges to facilitate its deployment in real world. We demonstrate the synergy between WSN and the information and communication technologies (ICT) and its major specifications. Finally, we depict open research issues that need to be more studied in the future. We expect to help researchers to get basic knowledge on WSNMS and to open for them new opportunities in regards to understand new technologies considered as an evolution of WSN.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; monitoring systems; multimedia sensor network; information and communication technologies; ICTs; internet of things; IoT; cyber physical system; CPS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2019.102985

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2019 Vol.23 No.4, pp.413 - 451

Received: 24 Aug 2017
Accepted: 30 Mar 2018
Published online: 14 Oct 2019 *

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