Distributed sensing of a dynamic environment is typically characterized by the sparsity of events, such as neuronal firing in the brain. Using the brain as inspiration, an event-driven communication strategy is developed that enables the efficient transmission, accurate retrieval and interpretation of sparse events across a network of thousands of wireless microsensors.
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This is a summary of: Lee, J. et al. An asynchronous wireless network for capturing event-driven data from large populations of autonomous sensors. Nat. Electron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01134-y (2024).
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Wireless radiofrequency network of distributed microsensors. Nat Electron 7, 264–265 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01141-z
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