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Sensor networks can be viewed as a collection of tiny, low-cost devices programmed to sense the physical world and that communicate over radio links [12]. The devices are commonly called motes or smart dust [676], in allusion to their computational and sensing capabilities, as well as their increasingly small size.

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Lopes, L., Martins, F., Barros, J. (2009). Programming Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Garbinato, B., Miranda, H., Rodrigues, L. (eds) Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89707-1_2

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