New Design Themes
n Long-lived systems that can be untethered and unattended
– Low-duty cycle operation with bounded latency
– Exploit redundancy  and heterogeneous tiered systems
n Leverage data processing inside the network
– Thousands or millions of operations per second can be done using energy
of sending a bit over 10 or 100 meters
– Exploit computation near data to reduce communication
n Self configuring systems that can be deployed ad hoc
– Un-modeled physical world dynamics makes systems appear ad hoc
– Measure and adapt to unpredictable environment
– Exploit spatial diversity and density of sensor/actuator nodes
n Achieve desired global behavior with adaptive localized algorithms
– Can’t afford to extract dynamic state information needed for centralized
control