TOSN serves as a central, archival venue for the interdisciplinary sensor network research community. It covers research contributions that introduce new concepts, techniques, analyses, or architectures, as well as applied contributions that report on development of new tools and systems or experiences and experiments with high-impact, innovative applications. The Transactions places special attention to contributions on systemic approaches to sensor networks.

The areas of sensor networks covered by this journal include, but are not limited to:

    Applications of sensor and actuator networks
    Data storage and query processing
    Distributed and collaborative signal processing
    Energy and resource management
    Fault tolerance and diagnostics
    Foundations of sensor networks
    Information theory, coding and compression
    In-network processing and aggregation
    Learning of models from data
    Location, time and other infrastructure establishment services
    Low-power hardware design
    Mobile or actuator systems
    Modeling of systems and physical environments
    Network protocols, coverage, connectivity, and longevity
    Programming models and languages
    Sensor fusion and distributed inference
    Security, privacy, and data integrity
    Scheduling, sensor tasking and control
    Simulation tools and environments
    System architectures and operating systems

The Transactions appears 6 times per year in January, March, May, July, September, and November. The first issue was published in August 2005.