Talk:Sensor Web
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noticed that this bit was thrown out:
Sensor Web identifies potential problems arising from ever cheaper supply of pods and pod miniturization in line with moores law - threat to local fauna that may try to ingest pods and choke. - littering the environment with large amounts microelectronic gear.
leaving it in would help neutrality of the article.
[edit] It's not neutrality but accuracy that is the issue
The issues listed above are out of context and therefore not helpful. (For starters, the Sensor Web doesn't "identify" anything.) The full discussion may be found in the 2nd reference. The issues brought up in that article is why making Sensor Web pods very, very small is not a particular useful engineering goal in many cases. If issues like this are to be brought up, it would be better to list them as they appear in the article, rather than the jumbled partial summary above. The lines were deleted not from neutrality reasons but from accuracy issues.
[edit] here is the quote:
From the experience of deploying the Sensor Web ... it is apparent that the ease with which the system is deployed is just as critical for acceptance by end-users as are its technological aspects. With the exception of applications in battlefield theaters, most outdoor Sensor Web applications require the system to be deployed in manner that does not harm the monitored environment. For example, end users have expressed concerns that if Sensor Web pods are too small, local fauna may try to ingest them and choke. Endusers also want to avoid littering their environment with hundreds of pieces of microelectronic gear.
with recognising is meant that Sensor Web is aware of end-user hesitations and deals with it.
[edit] wonderful quote but not expressed in what you originally wrote
You keep applying human characteristics to an inanimate technology. The Sensor Web doesn't decide how to proceed. The paragraph you quote has little to do with the specifics of the Sensor Web technology. In fact there is a much longer section in the paper that describes the issues raised by Moore's law and how it applies to the Sensor Web. (Remember, you brought up Moore's law in the original deleted portion and that isn't even present in the quote you took from the paper.)
The point remains: you didn't accurately summarize the article, hence the deletion. Finally, the points you raise (in terms of deployment) apply to any network of sensors and yet you make it sound like it only applies to the Sensor Web. The fact that the Sensor Web construction of the systems deployed so far does address these issues you quote from the article is a positive but that's hardly what you originally wrote.
