Low-power Environmental Monitoring System for ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network
Tareq Ali Alhmiedat · KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems · 2017
Environmental monitoring systems using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) face the challenge of high power consumption, due to the high levels of multi-hop data communication involved.In order to overcome the issue of fast energy depletion, a proof-of-concept implementation proves that adopting a clustering algorithm in environmental monitoring applications will significantly reduce the total power consumption for environment sensor nodes.In this paper, an energy-efficient WSN-based environmental monitoring system is proposed and implemented, using eight sensor nodes deployed over an area of 1 km 2 , which took place in the city of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.The effectiveness of the proposed environmental monitoring system has been demonstrated through adopting a number of real experimental studies.