Title
Performance Evaluation of Energy-Autonomous Sensors Using Power-Harvesting Beacons for Environmental Monitoring in Internet of Things (IoT).
Abstract
Environmental conditions and air quality monitoring have become crucial today due to the undeniable changes of the climate and accelerated urbanization. To efficiently monitor environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, and the levels of pollutants, such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air, and to collect data covering vast geographical areas, the development of cheap energy-autonomous sensors for large scale deployment and fine-grained data acquisition is required. Rapid advances in electronics and communication technologies along with the emergence of paradigms such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have led to the development of low-cost sensor devices that can operate unattended for long periods of time and communicate using wired or wireless connections through the Internet. We investigate the energy efficiency of an environmental monitoring system based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons that operate in the IoT environment. The beacons developed measure the temperature, the relative humidity, the light intensity, and the CO2 and VOC levels in the air. Based on our analysis we have developed efficient sleep scheduling algorithms that allow the sensor nodes developed to operate autonomously without requiring the replacement of the power supply. The experimental results show that low-power sensors communicating using BLE technology can operate autonomously (from the energy perspective) in applications that monitor the environment or the air quality in indoor or outdoor settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18061709
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
air quality,Bluetooth Low Energy,environmental monitoring,low-power electronics,energy Harvesting
Beacon,Wireless,Efficient energy use,Energy harvesting,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Air quality index,Electronics,Engineering,Environmental monitoring,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
18
6.0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George Dan Mois1386.32
Teodora Sanislav2414.23
Silviu Folea3399.60
Sherali Zeadally43399219.68