Mreža koja se sastoji od prostorno distribuiranih autonomnih senzora koji prate fizičke uslove kao što su temperatura, pritisak itd, i kooperativno prosleđuju podatke kroz mrežu do glavne lokacije.
Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing, Robert Faludi, 2010
Termin:
wireless sensor network
Definicija:
Network consists of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location.