Wildlife and environmental monitoring using RFID and WSN technology

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir Dyo;Stephen A. Ellwood;David W. Macdonald;Andrew Markham;Cecilia Mascolo;Bence Pásztor;Niki Trigoni;Ricklef Wohlers

  • Affiliations:
  • University College London;Wildlife Conservation Research Unit;Wildlife Conservation Research Unit;University of Oxford, UK;University of Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, UK;University of Oxford, UK;University of Oxford, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks enable scientists to collect information about the environment with a granularity unseen before, while providing numerous challenges to software designers. Since sensor devices are often powered by small batteries, which take considerable effort to replace, it is of major importance to use energy carefully. We present two efficient ways of extending the lifetime of such systems: 1. an adaptive duty cycling protocol and 2. an adaptive data management protocol. Further, we present some details of our deployed sensor network in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire.