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