Enhancing Communication: IT ministry to invest in wireless sensors

wireless sensor and actuator networks are networks of nodes that sense and potentially also control their environment.

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications is working on a project to develop an Opportunistic Large Array (OLA) networks for smart grid communications. The project costing Rs7.42 million deals with application of wireless sensor networks for smart grid communication systems which is infrastructure that enables delivery of power from generation sources to end-users to be monitored and managed in real time. Official sources at National ICT Research and Development Fund, an attached department of the ministry, said sensors and sensor networks have an important impact in meeting environmental challenges. Sensor applications in multiple fields such as smart power grids significantly contribute to more efficient use of resources. The sources said wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) are networks of nodes that sense and potentially also control their environment.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2016.

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