Abstract
The development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) struggles with limited computing, communication, and energy resources. Bio-Integrated Systems (BISs) contain cultured cells that perform certain tasks. For instance, neurons can work as brains for robots. BISs could provide solutions to overcome WSNs resource constraints. Biological entities integrating in computing hardware gains interest especially in robotics. This interest is due to the potentials of such integration in deep learning capacity, massive parallelism, energy savings, and communication and integration with living subjects. This paper collects existing BISs research and provides research motivations for Bio-Integrated WSNs (BI-WSNs). BI-WSNs solutions for improving energy preserving, sensing, processing, and communication are proposed and supported with existing examples. Further, on-going research on integrating neural networks in WSNs is presented. Challenges related to protection of biological entities from external environment are discussed. Finally, a prospective model of BI-WSNs consisting in optogenetic communication combined with neural network processing is given.
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