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figure 9. The wheeze-detection process. In (a), the top row corresponds to normal signals, while the bottom two rows correspond to wheeze signals.
(a) Delay embeddings. (b) Various samplings of a wheeze. (c) A triangulation of a wheeze. (d) A triangulation with large edges removed.

nonwheeze signal appears as chaotic, and its topology is also
nicely captured at a minimal computational cost.

Sensor networks
The application of algebraic topology in sensor networks is
very illustrative of its utility. Owing to the difficulties of
obtaining location information of the sensors in the field and
to the need for additional hardware to compute precise distances between pairs of sensors, it may be prohibitively
expensive to obtain geometric information. Interestingly,

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problems like verifying coverage are purely topological in
nature, and, as discussed previously, computational topology
provides a coordinate-free solution to quantifying the coverage status as topological information.
Consider a set of sensors randomly deployed in a region to be
monitored. Two problems are often of interest:
■ verifying if the region being monitored is actually fully
covered and accounted for
■ discovering uncovered regions and identifying their surrounding nodes.

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figure 10. A way to approximate the coverage area, shown in (b), in sensor networks using a complex constructed from the communication graph. If
the communication radius is twice the individual sensor coverage radius, the Rips shadow is a good topological approximation to the coverage area, as
shown in (d). (a) Sensors in a plane. (b) Sensor coverage. (c) The Cˇ ech complex. (d) The Rips shadow.
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