Editing Wireless sensor network (section)

===Industrial monitoring===

====Machine health monitoring====
Wireless sensor networks have been developed for machinery [[condition-based maintenance]] (CBM) as they offer significant cost savings and enable new functionality.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Tiwari, Ankit|display-authors=etal|title=Energy-efficient wireless sensor network design and implementation for condition-based maintenance|journal=ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks |volume=3|pages=1–es|doi=10.1145/1210669.1210670|year=2007|citeseerx=10.1.1.188.8180|s2cid=7278286}}</ref>

Wireless sensors can be placed in locations difficult or impossible to reach with a wired system, such as rotating machinery and untethered vehicles.

====Data logging====
{{Main|Data logging}}
Wireless sensor networks also are used for the collection of data for monitoring of environmental information.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=K. Saleem|author2=N. Fisal|author3=J. Al-Muhtadi|name-list-style=amp|title=Empirical studies of bio-inspired self-organized secure autonomousRouting protocol|journal=IEEE Sensors Journal |pages=1–8|year=2014|doi=10.1109/JSEN.2014.2308725|volume=14|issue=7|bibcode=2014ISenJ..14.2232S|s2cid=27135727}}</ref> This can be as simple as monitoring the temperature in a fridge or the level of water in overflow tanks in nuclear power plants. The statistical information can then be used to show how systems have been working. The advantage of WSNs over conventional loggers is the "live" data feed that is possible.

====Water/waste water monitoring====
Monitoring the [[water quality|quality]] and level of water includes many activities such as checking the quality of [[underground water|underground]] or surface water and ensuring a country's [[water infrastructure]] for the benefit of both human and animal. It may be used to protect the wastage of water.

====Structural health monitoring====
{{Main|Structural health monitoring}}
WSN can be used to monitor the condition of civil infrastructure and related geo-physical processes close to real time, and over long periods through [[data logging]], using appropriately interfaced sensors.

====Wine production====
Wireless sensor networks are used to monitor [[wine production]], both in the field and the cellar.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4755823|last1=Anastasi|first1=G.|last2=Farruggia|first2=O.|last3=Lo Re|first3=G.|last4=Ortolani|first4=M.|title=2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences|chapter=Monitoring High-Quality Wine Production using Wireless Sensor Networks|year=2009|pages=1–7|doi=10.1109/HICSS.2009.313|isbn=978-0-7695-3450-3}}</ref>