Will Sensor Networks Suite Sril Lanka?
An interesting blog entry on WSN and their use in Developing Countries can be found here.
“When deciding on using wireless systems to Sri Lanka various matters have to be looked into before coming to the final conclusion of it. For example a typical sensor board used for these applications costs around two hundred dollars and the sensors it self has prices ranging form fifty dollars onwards. Even though companies say that this is an affordable solution as for a third world country like us this may not be a very cheap solution. If we were to develop a sensor based system for farmers in our country the costs we incur will be great and sometimes may not be feasible when compared to the available solutions. Furthermore in countries like ours the where labor cost is very low a farmer can afford about ten laborers at the cost of a single sensor. So converting form this manual labor system to a high technological solution like sensor networks in our country may not be easy.”
