Devising mobile sensing and actuation infrastructure with drones

Mungyu Bae, Seungho Yoo, Jongtack Jung, Seongjoon Park, Kangho Kim, Joon Yeop Lee, Hwangnam Kim

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Abstract

Vast applications and services have been enabled as the number of mobile or sensing devices with communication capabilities has grown. However, managing the devices, integrating networks or combining services across different networks has become a new problem since each network is not directly connected via back-end core networks or servers. The issue is and has been discussed especially in wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN). In such systems, sensors and actuators are tightly coupled, so when an independent WSAN needs to collaborate with other networks, it is difficult to adequately combine them into an integrated infrastructure. In this paper, we propose drone-as-a-gateway (DaaG), which uses drones as mobile gateways to interconnect isolated networks or combine independent services. Our system contains features that focus on the service being provided in the order of importance, different from an adaptive simple mobile sink system or delay-tolerant system. Our simulation results have shown that the proposed system is able to activate actuators in the order of importance of the service, which uses separate sensors’ data, and it consumes almost the same time in comparison with other path-planning algorithms. Moreover, we have implemented DaaG and presented results in a field test to show that it can enable large-scale on-demand deployment of sensing and actuation infrastructure or the Internet of Things (IoT).

Original languageEnglish
Article number624
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Volume18
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Feb 19

Keywords

  • Architectures and applications for the Internet of Things
  • Connectivity
  • Drone network
  • Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks
  • Wireless sensor and actuator networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Instrumentation
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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