Hermes: A Scalable Sensor Network Architecture for Robustness & Time-Energy Awareness

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have emerged as a new information-gathering paradigm based on the collaborative efforts of a large number of self-organized sensing nodes. These networks form the basis for many types of smart environments such as smart hospitals, intelligent battlefields, earthquake response systems, and learning environments. A set of applications, such as biomedicine, hazardous environment exploration, environmental monitoring, military tracking and reconnaissance surveillance, are the key motivations for the recent research efforts in this area.