SEAMONSTER is tasked with developing and deploying a smart wireless sensor web. Let us examine for a moment what a smart wireless sensor web is and the various components that make it function.

Look at one of your hands. Each of your fingers houses a large number of neurons, specialized cells that act as sensors. When something touches the tip of your finger, a signal is sent through a network of nerves back to your brain, which processes the signal, then tells your body how to respond. This would be an example of a sensor network. In a sensor web, the neuron that was touched would send a signal not to your brain, but to every other neuron on your hand and let those neurons know what had happened and how to respond. Thus, a sensor network routes information from a sensor back to a central point, whereas a sensor web routes information directly to every other sensor in the web.