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The deployment of wireless sensors is very challenging, yet it is one of the most unexplored areas of this domain. In most of the WSN applications, the sensing location is fixed. In this paper, we are describing a deployment tool we have developed for strategic localization and network optimization. Even before going into field deployment, this tool can be used to calculate precisely the location of the nodes and transmission range while considering line of sight and obstacle into account. The JPEG image of the terrain or floor plan and line of sight or obstacle are the input parameters. The algorithm used in this tool addresses two aspects of the problems: how to minimize the range of the sensor nodes while still forming a well connected network and how to find the location of the forwarding nodes such that the energy required in communication is minimum. Based on these algorithms we have developed a tool to calculate the network parameters such as minimum numbers of forwarding nodes, minimum range for each node required to form a well connected mesh network and minimize the power consumption. Our initial experiments with google maps give very encouraging results.
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Kumar, A., Kumar, M., Padmanabh, K. (2010). A Tool to Determine Strategic Location and Ranges of Nodes for Optimum Deployment of Wireless Sensor Network. In: Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11659-9_8
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