Synchronization Solution to Optimize Power Consumption in Linear Sensor Network

Abstract

Many organizations plan to collect remote data to perform incidents prediction, or just to store or analyze them. To gather some data, it is necessary to set up a sensor architecture. In this paper, we address several issues we have to consider when we design a dynamic wireless sensor network architecture aiming to collect and gather distributed data. We propose an original solution to the possible lack of an operator infrastructure covering the sensor deployment area. This solution also takes into account the communication capabilities of the different sensors, as well as the energy constraint. The dynamic management protocol we propose to combine a local synchronization solution, and a relay protocol. The efficiency of our solution, which can be applied to any wireless protocol, is shown by the results of a simulation campaign.