An Energy Conservative Wireless Sensor Network Model for Object Tracking

Abstract

This study aims to find the relationship between energy consumption level and object tracking success in an object tracking sensor network (OTSN). Convenient use of energy proposes a great challenge for wireless sensor network (WSN) design and the balance between successful object tracking and low energy consumption is a tight one. To address this issue, we propose a new network operation scheme for object tracking, implement this scheme in Network Simulator 2 (ns-2) and present the obtained results of the conducted simulation experiments. The simulation results show that the proposed method can be used to track objects in a WSN network in an energy conservative manner.