Critical Study of Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks and Their Applications

The attention of many researchers have been attracted by Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks (WASN).The WASN is formed by a large number of sensor nodes which are commonly known as motes.This paper presents a critical study of wireless ad-hoc sensor network as well as its application areas.In particular, the paper evaluates the various applications of wireless ad-hoc sensor networks, its advantages and disadvantages as well as the security mechanisms for countering attacks on wireless sensor networks.Data were collected from secondary sources and a critical detailed study was carried out.The paper deduced that wireless ad-hoc sensor networks were used daily by millions of people.The technology is predominantly deployed for wireless Internet access with laptops, PDAs, Tablets, Android phones and the likes for data transfer between the devices, for monitoring purposes and even to play games with portable game consoles.The application areas for WASN has grown due to ease of the network acquisition and configuration.