Full steam ahead for WSNs

Abstract

Watertight metallic doors are no barrier to installing wireless networks inside a ship, according to researchers at the Institute of Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), France. In their Letter published in this issue of Electronics Letters, they experimentally demonstrate how radio leakage between metallic adjacent rooms separated by watertight doors is of a sufficient level for communication between network nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN).This result is another step towards a cost-effective wireless solution for future shipboard monitoring systems.