A military surveillance system based on wireless sensor networks with extended coverage life
Chaitanya Vijaykumar Mahamuni · 2016
The military services and applications comprises a large acres of areas. It encompasses arms, ammunition weapons, tools and confidential data. A large number of soldiers are active at the national borders and hostile regions to safeguard the civilian people and enhance the security to them; though, in the case of any emergency, some mechanism based on the modern electronics and technology is essential to alert the military officers active in surveillance areas so that they can make a prompt arrangement to lock the security and tighten the forces. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is one of the upcoming technologies in the field of wireless communication which can play an effective role in the monitoring of the remote areas for applications like military surveillance, seismic activity monitoring, earthquake detection and disaster relief operations etc. The nodes are randomly deployed in the sensor field for such applications because of which the density of nodes in some part of the area to be monitored will be more and other areas might be very less. Another problem is the physical access to sensor nodes in these areas is extremely challenging, so the human intervention is not easy. Thus, the replacement of nodes or recharging their batteries is practically impossible. The paper presents a prototype model of the surveillance system for the military application using wireless sensor networks and the work progress accomplished till now has been reported. The objective of the work is to achieve an energy efficient performance of the system by optimizing the node schedule and to study the feasibility of its implementation in the context of the military application.