A New Approach To Design Reliable General Sensor Network on the Basis of Graph Theory
Xu Wang, Gang Rong, Jianlie Li · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research · 2007
A procedure for the design of a sensor network is reported in this paper. The strategy uses the graph theory and takes the reliability objective and cost constraint into account. According to the requirements of industrial application, the approach presented in this paper can obtain an efficient solution even though there are not enough sensors to guarantee the whole system's observability. The proposed algorithm can also provide a solution in the situation where some important variables have to be measured and a portion of variables cannot be directly measured because of technical reasons. Industrial examples are provided to show the efficiency of the algorithm.