Abstract

Due to the massive increase in data sets in contemporary applications and the difficulty of their processing in various approaches, data fusion remains a predominant way to obtain outstanding results, in terms of reliability, efficiency, and precision. The following document presents an overview of data fusion in wireless sensor networks; in which, various concepts to applications are considered to generate a base document for future research. This article gives a comprehensive and current view of models or architectures, techniques, methodologies or algorithms, and a current review of applications in different areas.