Wireless Integrated Network Sensors
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Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS) provide distributed network and Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

, health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

, environmental monitoring
Environmental monitoring
Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterise and monitor the quality of the environment...

, and safety and security,border security. WINS combine microsensor technology, low power signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless networking capability in a compact system. WINS networks provide sensing, local control, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments.

WINS technology was announced by the House Science Committee as one of the nation's technology breakthroughs in the "Great Advances in Scientific Discovery During the 105th Congress" on 24 September 1998.
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By Dinesh T
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