Wireless Sensor Networks: Business Models and Market Issues

Abstract

Networks of sensors are continuously gaining ground in all types of industry applications and are believed to be evolving in a way similar to the evolution of the first interconnected computer systems into what we call today the Internet. A heterogeneous infrastructure is thus about to emerge as a dense web of rich information sources that will transform the World Wide Web into what has been called the "Real World Web" (RWW). The authors hereby assimilate the impact of this transformation process, the actors involved, the operational and business models associated with it.