SenseNet: IoT Temperature Measurement in Railway Networks for Intelligent Transport
Pa Saffiong Kebbeh, Momomdou Jain, Bamba Gueye · 2020
Wireless sensor networks have become an attractive choice for many monitoring applications in unattended setups such as railway lines and highway monitoring; hence, which requires optimized sensor placement in a linear topology for effective optimum coverage. These sensors need to be placed as far apart while still maintaining a minimum required coverage in order to minimize the required node count and reduce cost. The objective of this paper is to strategically place sensors in order to determine the minimum number of sensors and their locations, such that every grid point is covered with a minimum confidence level. We experimented and evaluated the number of nodes and packet rate variation on the performance of different MAC protocols over the deployment of wireless sensor networks on the "Train Express Region" (TER) of the Dakar region in Senegal.