Energy-Efficient Surveillance System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

The focus of surveillance missions is to acquire and verify information about enemy capabilities and positions of hostile targets. Such missions often involve a high element of risk for human personnel and require a high degree of stealthiness. Hence, the ability to deploy unmanned surveillance missions, by using wireless sensor networks, is of great practical importance for the military. Because of the energy constraints of sensor devices, such systems necessitate an energy-aware design to ensure the longevity of surveillance missions. Solutions proposed recently for this type of system show promising results through simulations. However, the simplified assumptions they make about the system in the simulator often do not hold well in practice and energy consumption is narrowly accounted for within a single protocol. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a running system for energy-efficient surveillance. The system allows a group of cooperating sensor devices to...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MOBISYS
• Authors: Tian He, Sudha Krishnamurthy, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, Ting Yan, Lin Gu, Jonathan Hui, Bruce H. Krogh
• Keywords: Energy-efficient Surveillance, MOBISYS 2004, Surveillance Missions, Unmanned Surveillance Missions, Wireless Networks