A wireless sensor network (WSN) is composed of a group of small power-constrained nodes with functions of sensing and communication, which can be deployed in a huge area for the purpose of detecting or monitoring some special events and then forwarding the aggregated data to the designated data center through sink nodes or gateways. In this case, the network connectivity and the sensing coverage are two of the most fundamental problems in wireless sensor networks. Designing an optimal area coverage (or node deployment) strategy that would minimize cost, reduce computation and communication overhead, be resilient to node failures, and provide a high degree of coverage with network connectivity is extremely challenging. Also, the network …show more content…
However, a group of sensors collaborating with each other can accomplish a much bigger task efficiently. They can sense and detect desired events/data from a field of interest, and then communicate with each other in an optimal fashion to perform data aggregation, and then route the aggregated data to sinks or base stations that can make application-specific decisions and link to the outside world via the Internet or satellites. One of the primary advantages of deploying a wireless sensor network is its ease-deployment and freedom from having a complicated wired communication backbone that is often inconvenient of deployment in the remote area.
Hence, WSN technology has very broad application prospects, which can be used in military, industrial and agricultural control, urban management, biomedical, environmental testing, disaster relief and other fields. However, in many of these applications, the environment could be hostile and manual placement of sensor nodes might not be possible. In these situations, the nodes are expected to be deployed randomly or be sprinkled from airplanes and will remain unattended for weeks or months without any battery replenishment [4]. Therefore, energy conservation is a key issue in the design of systems based on WSNs. Due to the limited energy resource in each sensor node, we need to utilize the WSN in an
More specifically, a sensor is "a device that responds to phenomena, such as light, pressure, or heat, and generates a signal that can be measured or interpreted" [16]. The sensor network community often defines a sensor node as a wireless device which is small, capable of responding to one or several stimuli, processing the data and transmitting the information over a short distance using a radio link. Sensor nodes contain electronic circuits for minimizing power consumption [17]. Sensors are for measuring sound, light and temperature that is typically thought. However, sensors can measure other variables, such as vibrations or electromagnetic fields [18]. Sensor transmits values wirelessly to one or several BSs
A Wireless Sensor Network is one kind of wireless network includes a large number of circulating, self-directed, minute, low powered devices named sensor nodes called motes. These networks certainly cover a huge number of spatially distributed, little, battery-operated, embedded devices that are networked to caringly collect, process, and transfer data to the operators, and it has controlled the capabilities of computing & processing. Nodes are the tiny computers, which work jointly to form the networks. The sensor node is a multi-functional, energy efficient wireless device. The applications of motes in industrial are widespread. A collection of sensor nodes collects the data from the surroundings to achieve specific
Nowadays, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are getting more and more involved in our society, researchers and manufacture. As the use of WSNs increases the more challenges rise to make them immune and life longer. Therefore, both fields industry and academia invest money to improve the capability of the security integrity, confidentiality, and authentication. Since WSNs are distributed in unfrequented and abandoned venues, the physical security is unconcerned or less concern. The most concern is the lifetime of Wireless sensor networks, sensors have limited source of power. Thus, economizing energy will keep sensors live longer, the less power means more efficiency. Moreover, secure data is important as well, since no one attends where sensors are located, it is easy to manipulate data or steal it. Cryptography provides high security to WSNs, using algorithms to encrypt and decrypt the sent data is
Due to limited and non-rechargeable energy provision, the energy resource of sensor networks should be managed wisely to extend the lifetime of sensors. Sensor networks have recently emerged as a platform for several important surveillance and control applications .Each sensor has an onboard radio that can be used to send the collected data to interested parties. One of the advantages of wireless sensors networks (WSNs) is their ability to operate unattended in harsh environments in which contemporary human-in-the-loop monitoring schemes are risky, inefficient and sometimes infeasible. Therefore, sensors are expected to be deployed randomly in the area of interest by a relatively uncontrolled means, e.g. dropped by a helicopter, and to collectively form a network in an ad-hoc manner. In order to achieve high energy efficiency and increase the network scalability, sensor nodes can be organized into clusters. Data collected from sensors are sent to the cluster head first, and then forwarded to the base station. Network lifetime can be defined as the time elapsed until the first node (or the last node) in the network depletes its energy (dies).
Natural disasters have become very critical due to several reasons like global warming. Wireless sensor networks are used for detecting the natural events by measuring the temperature, air pressure, vibration, etc. and generate alarms. WSNs can measure the agitation of buildings, CO2 levels, and weather monitoring, etc. (Yawut & Kilaso, 2011).
Wireless sensor networks typically consist of a large number of sensor nodes with limited onboard battery resources which are difficult to recharge or replace. Thus the reduction of energy consumption for end-to-end data rate and maximization of network lifetime have become chief research concern. In recent years, many techniques have been proposed for improving the energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks. Among these techniques, V-MIMO technique has been considered as one of the effective ways to save energy. In WSN a node has two communication related energy consuming roles, one role is to serve as a packet generating source node (SN), and the other role is to relay packets for the other nodes, which are both energy consuming operations. This is why the energy minimization is required to extend the lifetime of the WSN.
In sensor network node deployment falls into two classifications either a dense deployment or a meager deployment. In dense deployment in the focused on field, high quantities of sensor nodes are available. While in an inadequate deployment we have lesser nodes. Dense deployment is utilized to distinguish multiple sensors. At the point when expense of item expands it can be utilized there.
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consists of large number of sensor nodes distributed across a geographical area in highly dense manner. These nodes are of low cost and use less energy to perform various functions. These sensors have the ability to communicate with each other and route the data to next node or back to the Base Station (BS). Sensor nodes in a sensor network communicate with other nodes and collect the information.
Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have grabbed much attention in recent years due to their potential use in many applications. One such application is deploying WSN in underground mines to monitor the miner 's physical signals as well as the environment they are exposed to. However, due to the resource constraints of sensor nodes and the adhoc-formation of the network, in addition with an unattended deployment, pose un-conventional demands provoke the need for special techniques for design and management of WSN. Because of the restrictions caused by the lossy dielectric walls and ceilings in the underground mines, the radio signal propagation characteristics are significantly different from those of terrestrial wireless channels. In this paper, underground WSN is designed considering worker’s safety in under-ground, increased energy efficiency and productivity as main goals.
A mobile wireless sensor network, shortly WMSN, can be defined as a wireless network of a sensor nodes that are mobile. Motivation behind a mobile wireless sensor network is to capture real world data and convert them so it can be transferred, processed, stored and later studied or analyzed (Guo, 2014). The MWSN is usually a combination of two or more technologies such as mobility, wireless connectivity and the ability to gather local information. The mobile wireless sensor network is usually deployment of a large number of small, inexpensive, self-powered nodes and receiving station (Kumbhare, Rangaree, & Asutkar, 2016). These MWSN can be effectively used for civil and military purposes.
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensor nodes able to sense, measure and, gather information from the surroundings, and transmit and receive data from the user. These sensor nodes are equipped with sensors, a processor, memory, power supply, and a radio or a RF module. The sensing part of the sensor node determines the application where it will be
A NOVEL APPROACH TO ENHANCE THE LIFETIME AND THROUGHPUT OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK USING ACTOR NODES.
Investigate distributed sensor networks for sensing environment parameters and integrate the proposed sensor network with energy harvesting systems.
The wireless sensor networks mainly comprise stationary and mobile sensors that are deployed randomly inside the network and they collect data from the surroundings via wireless communication links [7, 8].
In this work, The field of wireless sensor systems have turned into a concentration of serious research as of late, particularly to monitor and describing of expansive physical situations, and for following different ecological or physical conditions, for example, temperature, weight, wind and dampness. Wireless Sensor systems can be utilized as a part of numerous applications, for example, untamed life observing, military target following and investigation, risky situation investigation, and tragic event alleviation. The immense measure of detected information of course ordering them turns into a basic assignment in a large portion of these applications.