Title

Local Positioning For Environmental Monitoring In Wireless Sensor And Actor Networks

Abstract

Location estimation of sensor nodes is an essential part of most applications for wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN). The ambiguous location information often makes the collected data useless in these applications. Environmental monitoring in particular, relies on an accurate position estimation in order to process or evaluate the collected data. In this paper, we present a novel and scalable approach for positioning of mobile sensor nodes with the goal of monitoring the Amazon river. The actors in the scenario are stationary and positioned at reachable spots on the land alongside the river whereas sensor nodes are thrown into the river to collect data such as water temperature, depth and geographical features. The actors are not equipped with positioning adaptors and they are only aware of their distances from the other actors. The sensor nodes collect data and forward it to the actors. While floating in the river, sensor nodes are often multiple hops away from the actor nodes, which makes it challenging to apply traditional positioning techniques. Through extensive simulations, we show that the positioning of the nodes is feasible using a multi-hop approach with local information exchange only. © 2010 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2010

Publication Title

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Number of Pages

806-813

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2010.5735815

Socpus ID

79955018191 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79955018191

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