Sensors 2011, 11(11), 10074-10093; https://doi.org/10.3390/s111110074
Historical Building Monitoring Using an Energy-Efficient Scalable Wireless Sensor Network Architecture
ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Received: 8 September 2011 / Revised: 18 October 2011 / Accepted: 24 October 2011 / Published: 25 October 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microprocessors and System-on-Chip)
Abstract
We present a set of novel low power wireless sensor nodes designed for monitoring wooden masterpieces and historical buildings, in order to perform an early detection of pests. Although our previous star-based system configuration has been in operation for more than 13 years, it does not scale well for sensorization of large buildings or when deploying hundreds of nodes. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of a cluster-based dynamic-tree hierarchical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) architecture where realistic assumptions of radio frequency data transmission are applied to cluster construction, and a mix of heterogeneous nodes are used to minimize economic cost of the whole system and maximize power saving of the leaf nodes. Simulation results show that the specialization of a fraction of the nodes by providing better antennas and some energy harvesting techniques can dramatically extend the life of the entire WSN and reduce the cost of the whole system. A demonstration of the proposed architecture with a new routing protocol and applied to termite pest detection has been implemented on a set of new nodes and should last for about 10 years, but it provides better scalability, reliability and deployment properties. View Full-TextKeywords:
wireless sensor network; low-power nodes; multi-hop networks; termites sensor; moisture sensor
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Capella, J.V.; Perles, A.; Bonastre, A.; Serrano, J.J. Historical Building Monitoring Using an Energy-Efficient Scalable Wireless Sensor Network Architecture. Sensors 2011, 11, 10074-10093.