Dynamic routing and sensor networks

Sensors are part of our daily lives. Whether to measure temperature, detect movement or qualify air pollution levels, the applications are both multiple and protean.

The use of data acquired by sensors naturally justifies the development of network infrastructures capable of absorbing high volumes of traffic while ensuring a level of quality and reliability compatible with the nature of the data transmitted.

For example, the importance of monitoring biometric data characteristic of an individual's state of health is not equivalent to that of environmental data and data characteristic of the state of automobile traffic within an urban community, which may motivate different routing, traffic engineering and operating rules from one service to another.

Although sensor technology is now widely mastered, it remains fundamentally proprietary, and as such, its networking presents characteristics and constraints that can vary from one environment to another.