Distributed signal processing in

wireless sensor Networks.

RAPAKA NAVEEN CHAND
116EC0251
SUPERVISOR: PROF. UPENDRA KUMAR SAHOO
Wireless Sensor Networks:

 Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) are networks of autonomous sensor

nodes used for monitoring an environmental conditions such as
temperature, humidity, vehicular movement, pressure, speed, stress,
Direction of movement etc. and organizing the collected data.
 They contain various sensors like seismic, visual, acoustics, RADAR,
thermal etc.
 These sensor networks help in continuous monitoring environment.
Applications of WSN:
 Cont..
Military Environment:
 Monitoring friendly forces, equipment and
Ammunition.  Forest fire detection.
 Battle field Surveillance.  Bio complexity mapping.
 Reconnaissance of opposing forces and  Flood detection.
terrain.
 Precision Agriculture.
 Targeting.
 Battle damage assessment. Health Applications:
 Nuclear, Biological, Chemical attack  Telemonitoring of human physiological data
Detection.  Tracking and monitoring doctors and patients.
 Drug administration.
Home Applications:
 Home automation
 Smart Environment
Other Applications of WSNs

 Monitoring material fatigue.

 Managing Inventory.
 Monitoring product quality.
 Environmental Control in offices
 Monitoring disaster Area.
 Process factory control.
 Detecting and monitoring car
thefts.
Factors affecting the Design of
WSNs:
 Fault tolerance.
 Scalability
 Production costs.
 Hardware constraints
 Sensor Network Topology.
 Environment.
 Transmission media constraints.
 Power consumption
Basic Structure of a Sensor Node:
Cont..
Fault tolerance:
Ability to sustain network
functionality without
Any interruption due to sensor
node failure
Scalability:
The no. of sensor nodes
depends on the application.
Production Costs:
Cost of individual node should
be as low as possible
Hardware Constraints:
Varies with the application.
Sensor Network Topology:
Careful handling of topology as nodes are
densely deployed. Is done in three phases:
• Pre-deployment and deployment phase.
• Post deployment.
• Re-deployment of additional nodes.
Transmission media constraints:
• Media should be available world wide.
• Use of ISM bands.
• Changes with application.
Power Consumption:
• Very Important Constraint.
• Should be very low power consuming.
• Maximum power utilised by transceiver for communication.
• Limited power source in many cases,size etc.
• Use of multi hop communication than use of single hop communication.
• Changes with addition of new components like location
identification,etc.
References:

[1] Computer Networks 38 (2002) 393422,Wireless sensor networks: a

survey,I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su*, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E.
Cayirci,Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA,Received 12 December 2001; accepted 20
December 2001.
[2] Wireless Sensor Network Applications: A Study in Environment
Monitoring System Mohd Fauzi Othmana , Khairunnisa Shazalib *, a
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia, Jalan Semarak,54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia b Malaysia-
Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia, Jalan Semarak,54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Thank You..