Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:M3-4
Session:
Number:M3-4-6
A Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Network for Industrial Monitoring
Zafar Iqbal, Heung-No Lee ,
pp.351-354
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recently, industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have been widely used for monitoring the state of heavy machinery and large factories whose condition is critical to the operation of machine as well as the safety of people around them. However, the wireless communication channels, which these sensors must operate in, are not always reliable, and observations of some sensors cannot be reported successfully to the base station. In order to deal with this problem, we propose a cooperative WSN scheme, which organizes itself into groups of cooperation nodes and then start normal operation. The proposed scheme effectively increases the probability of correct decision about the state of the industrial area, and reduces the probability of false alarms at a given signal level. We also propose a novel cooperation protocol that uses the minimum number of transmissions for delivering the cooperative sensing information to the base station, thereby, reducing the overall traffic and energy usage of the network.