• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.271-298
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• 2012

Researchers have made significant progress in recent years towards realizing effective structural health monitoring (SHM) utilizing wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs). These efforts have focused on improving the performance and robustness of such networks to achieve high quality data acquisition and distributed, in-network processing. One of the primary challenges still facing the use of smart sensors for long-term monitoring deployments is their limited power resources. Periodically accessing the sensor nodes to change batteries is not feasible or economical in many deployment cases. While energy harvesting techniques show promise for prolonging unattended network life, low power design and operation are still critically important. This research presents the WiSeMote: a new, fully integrated ultra-low power wireless smart sensor node and a flexible base station, both designed for long-term SHM deployments. The power consumption of the sensor nodes and base station has been minimized through careful hardware selection and the implementation of power-aware network software, without sacrificing flexibility and functionality.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2017

무선 센서 네트워크의 수명 연장을 위해서 이동 노드를 활용하는 방법들이 제안되었고 최근 드론 기술의 발달로 드론을 활용한 데이터 수집에 관련된 연구들이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 지상의 무선 센서 네트워크와 드론을 연동할 경우 데이터 수집의 실시간성과 효율성이 높아지는 장점이 있다. 그러나 기존의 연구들은 드론의 에너지 소모를 줄이기 위해 비행 거리를 최소화하는 문제만을 집중하고 있어 노드들의 에너지 소모가 균일하지 못하는 문제를 발생 시킨다. 이러한 불균형적인 노드의 에너지 소모는 각 네트워크의 단절을 가속화하고 이로 인해 드론의 비행거리가 증가하는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 각 클러스터의 내용을 수집하여 드론과 직접 통신하는 랑데부 노드 선정 시 드론의 예상 비행거리와 노드의 수명을 고려한 기법을 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4883-4901
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• 2016

Energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very appealing research area due to serious constrains on resources like storage, processing, and communication power of the sensor nodes. Due to limited capabilities of sensing nodes, such networks are composed of a large number of nodes. The higher number of nodes increases the overall performance in data collection from environment and transmission of packets among nodes. In such networks the nodes sense data and ultimately forward the information to a Base Station (BS). The main issues in WSNs revolve around energy consumption and delay in relaying of data. A lot of research work has been published in this area of achieving energy efficiency in the network. Various techniques have been proposed to divide such networks; like grid division of network, group based division, clustering, making logical layers of network, variable size clusters or groups and so on. In this paper a new technique of group based WSNs is proposed by using some features from recent published protocols i.e. "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEMDC)" and "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEUC)". The proposed work is not only energy-efficient but also minimizes the delay in relaying of data from the sensor nodes to BS. Simulation results show, that it outperforms LEACH protocol by 38%, EEMDC by 10% and EEUC by 13%.