DEAMON: energy-efficient sensor monitoring

  • Authors:

  • Minho Shin;Patrick Tsang;David Kotz;Cory Cornelius

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  • Venue:
  • SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In people-centric opportunistic sensing, people offer their mobile nodes (such as smart phones) as platforms for collecting sensor data. A sensing application distributes sensing 'tasks,' which specify what sensor data to collect and under what conditions to report the data back to the application. To perform a task, mobile nodes may use on-board sensors, a body-area network of personal sensors, or sensors from neighboring nodes that volunteer to contribute their sensing resources. In all three cases, continuous sensor monitoring can drain a node's battery. We propose DEAMON (Distributed Energy-Aware MONitoring), an energy-efficient distributed algorithm for long-term sensor monitoring. Our approach assumes only that mobile nodes are tasked to report sensor data under conditions specified by a Boolean expression, and that a network of nearby sensor nodes contribute to monitoring subsets of the task's sensors. Our algorithm to select sensor nodes and to monitor the sensing condition couserves energy of all nodes by limiting sensing and communication operations. We evaluate DEAMON with a stochastic analysis and with simulation results, and show that it should significantly reduce energy consumption.