If you want to see what Zigbee and low-cost, low-power micros can do, then check out Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach by Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas.The book is actually ...
Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics. These include photonic and quantum systems that could advance imaging, ...
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