Current Status of Micro/Nanosensors and Their Potential Applicability to the Prevention and Early Detection of Forest Fires

The progress in the development of high-performance advanced materials and cost-effective manufacturing technologies is paving the way for large-scale, low-cost fabrication of miniaturized sensors for meteorological and environmental monitoring applications. This paper reviews sensors based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology with great potential for use in wireless sensor networks (WSN) aimed at the prevention and early-stage detection of wildfires.