What are sensor networks good for? [LWN.net]

What are sensor networks good for?

Posted Jan 12, 2008 0:35 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: What are sensor networks good for? by HalfMoon
Parent article: Hardware Fun with the Arduino board

As a random aside, Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ has a distant 
descendant of sensor networks (`localizers') play a significant part in 
the plot.

(But then Vinge *is* an ex-CS prof who writes his books in Emacs, so I 
guess it's not unusual that he knew about this sort of thing years before 
the rest of us spotted it... of course he's inspired the name of at least 
one program as well, GNU Mailman. Thankfully this one is rather less 
malevolent than Vinge's.)