No other electronic media has created as much mass impact as the TV. TV is both a personal as well as family/community device which makes it reach a large population. Obviously the immense popularity of TV has resulted in an unprecedented growth of TV viewing as well as technology. From the simple TV today one can have a smart TV with varying features satisfying all sections of society. The TV technology has grown in all aspects namely the TV studio technology, the TV transmitter & broadcast technology and the TV receiving device technology. Not only have the TV signals been converted from analog to digital, today one has high definition TV, the IPTV, the mobile TV and the 3D TV commercially available. It is very interesting and important to trace the evolution of TV technology from its basic form as in 1930s to date and to visualize their technical features at various stages of developments. This paper gives an overview of the developments in TV technology highlighting their important features.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) since their inception, a decade ago, have grown well in research and implementation. In this work the developments in WSNs are reported in three sub areas of wireless sensor networks that is, wireless sensor node (hardware and software), Communication & Networking issues in WSNs and application areas. WSNs are characterized by huge data hence research work in aggregation & mining is also discussed. Contemporary issues of integration of WSNs with other prevalent networks, sensor enabled smartness and role of artificial intelligence methods is elaborated. Insight into future directions & research avenues in all the above areas is provided.