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Jock Meston
mestoj01@csse.uwa.edu.au

Entry year: 2004
Enrolment status: checked and confirmed
Degree: GradDipIT
Degree status: complete semester 2, 2005

Project: Monitoring Multiple Environment Variables to Improve Robustness of Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Supervisor(s): Rachel Cardell-Oliver
Project status: complete semester 2, 2005


The limited battery lifetimes of motes in wireless sensor network require stratagems to conserve power resources, including reducing network traffic and unnecessary reading of sensors. By dynamically modifying the sample rate used by a mote in response to environmental changes, such as rain events, rapidly changing conditions can be tracked without over-sampling during slowly changing periods. This project will extend previous work in the Wireless Sensor Network group to add extra sensor capability to the motes and integrate the data collected to improve the reactivity, robustness, and mote lifetimes in the network. Also to be investigated is the possibility utilising the sensor readings at nearby sensor motes to change sensing behaviour and reduce network data traffic.

Proposal
Dissertation 		Last update: Mon Dec 5 10:23:23 2005
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