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A wireless sensor network (WSN) can provide a low cost and flexible solution to sensing and monitoring for large distributed applications. To save energy and prolong the network lifetime, the WSN is often partitioned into a set of spatial clusters. Each cluster includes sensor nodes with similar sensing data, and only a few sensor nodes (samplers) report their sensing data to a base node. Then the...
Link quality protocols employ link quality estimators to collect statistics on the wireless link either independently or cooperatively among the sensor nodes. Furthermore, link quality routing protocols for wireless sensor networks may modify an estimator to meet their needs. Link quality estimators are vulnerable against malicious attacks that can exploit them. A malicious node may share false information...
Wireless sensor network supports reliable monitoring of the given network based upon the data transmitted from the sensors. However, the feasibility can be maintained only when the delivered data are fairly reliable without any damage. Since data error is not an uncommon event in wireless sensor networks, the validity of the decision making strongly depends upon the stableness of the data analysis...
Most of the times Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) operate in hostile and unattended network environments, which makes the nodes vulnerable to node misbehaviour attacks. The applicability of conventional security methods, such as authentication, encryption and cryptography, to counter node misbehaviour attacks is debatable due to their incapability and involved cost. Trust aware secure mechanisms provide...
The consequence of road accidents that involves a motorcycle is far more fatal for the rider than the other drivers. Yet, there has not been an effective vehicle alert system that can eliminate these avoidable motorcycle accidents caused by other drivers where they fail to notice the motorcycles. One of the major flaws with the existing vehicle alert systems is that it should not treat motorcycles...
With an increase in the number of warehouses, cold storage units and factories in today's industrialized and automated world, the need for monitoring various attributes in such factories has become a thing of great necessity. With advances in technology, and in particular, the various sensors to measure different parameters such as temperature, gases, humidity etc. have become more viable and affordable...
Traditional wired vibration and acoustic sensors used for machine and structural monitoring are currently being replaced by low-cost MEMS-based wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, existing platforms are lacking in computing capabilities and integration, as well as the necessary software features to manage wireless sensing experiments. In this paper, we present a novel hardware-software platform...
A large number of sensor nodes are deployed to remote locations and left unattended for a long time in wireless sensor network applications. When a battery-powered sensor node depletes its energy, it is assumed as “dead” and recharging or replacing the battery is not possible in most of the applications. Lifetime of the wireless sensor network depends on the efficient use of available restricted energy...
Wildfires, often dubbed megafires, have in recent times increased in both frequency and scale, owing largely to human error as well as climate change. Due to their uncontrolled unpredictable rapid growth and behaviour, they can quickly become difficult to contain, leading to significant loss of lives, wildlife and property. It is therefore critical to tackle such fires in the early stages. This demands...
As wireless sensor networks become more ubiquitous in the world, the need for lightweight, resilient time synchronization protocols is apparent. Wireless nodes' internal clocks are subject to drift over time due to manufacturing imperfections and environmental changes. While various protocols have been introduced that attempt to correct for this drift, they each have their own peculiarities and issues...
Online education is evolving at a fast pace thanks to novel technology-mediated learning environments: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), gamified learning, intelligent tutoring systems, citizen-science communities, informal learning groups are blossoming everywhere as novel opportunities for teachers and learners. However, the educational effectiveness of these solutions has to be proved and technological...
In order to adapt to the narrow space and complex branch in deep mine roadway, which have an adverse impact on the accuracy of nodes localization, a self-localization algorithm for deep mine wireless sensor networks based on MDS-MDS and rigid subset (Rigid-MDS) was proposed. The new distributed algorithm divides whole network into some globally rigid subset based on rigid graph theory, in which nodes...
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the efficient use of sensor energy is a crucial point to extend the network lifetime and has been the focus of many industrial and academic researchers, since it is not a trivial task. Several methodologies for clustering, routing and energy saving in WSNs are available in the literature. However, the lack of detailed and crucial information from the analyzed studies...
In recent years, the research about energy waste and CO2 emission reduction has gained a strong momentum, also pushed by European and national funding initiatives. The main purpose of this large effort is to reduce the effects of greenhouse emission, climate change to head for a sustainable society. In this scenario, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a key role. From one side,...
In this paper we present a low-cost distributed embedded system for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) that uses very cost-effective MEMS accelerometers, instead of more expensive piezoelectric analog transducers. The proposed platform provides online filtering and fusion of the collected data directly on-board. Data are transmitted after processing using a WiFi transceiver. Low-cost and synchronized...
The deformation detection of construction engineering is to ensure the safety of the construction, it is the necessary auxiliary means. Application of automatic deformation monitoring system is the direction of development. The system is divided into two parts: field detection system and background data processing system. The wireless sensor network is used to upload the data collected from the Measuring...
A radial increment WSN routing algorithm(RIRA) is proposed to reduce energy consumption and improve transmission efficiency caused by complex environment and narrow tunnel of deep mine, in which the wired network layout is limited. Multi-hop routing methods between clusters can reduce energy consumption. A weighting formula is constructed to select cluster heads, the greater the weight, the more likely...
In order to solve the problems of complicated wiring, difficult maintenance and easy line corrosion in traditional greenhouse monitoring system, a greenhouse intelligent information monitoring system based on wireless sensor network was developed. In which ZigBee wireless sensors were used to collect field environmental parameters, such as indoor temperature, indoor humidity, light intensity, carbon...
WSN for railway environment monitoring is a typical linear wireless sensor network. In order to improve the poor robustness of single path routing protocol, this paper proposes an energy-efficient multi-path routing protocol suitable for narrow strip area along the railway. In this protocol, "One-step-hop" transmission and "two-step-hop" transmission are designed to send packets...
Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are emerging in various application fields thanks to their low cost and ease of deployment. In particular, the rapid increase of critical monitoring applications encourages the study and evaluation of wireless communication protocols that can fulfill the requirements of such applications. Among the WSN standards, the IEEE 802.15.4 is very promising, as it...
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