| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Ueyama, Jo
[1]
;
Freitas, Heitor
[1]
;
Faical, Bruno S.
[1]
;
Filho, Geraldo P. R.
[1]
;
Fini, Pedro
[1]
;
Pessin, Gustavo
[2]
;
Gomes, Pedro H.
[3]
;
Villas, Leandro A.
[4]
Total Authors: 8
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, BR-05508 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Vale Inst Technol ITV, Belem, Para - Brazil
[3] Univ So Calif, Autonomous Network Res Grp, Los Angeles, CA 90089 - USA
[4] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Comp, Campinas, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE; v. 52, n. 12, p. 81-87, DEC 2014. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 17 |
| Abstract | |
A wireless sensor network is liable to suffer faults for several reasons, which include faulty nodes or even the fact that nodes have been destroyed by a natural disaster, such as a flood. These faults can give rise to serious problems if WSNs do not have a reconfiguration mechanism at execution. It should be noted that many WSNs designed to detect natural disasters are deployed in inhospitable places and depend on multihop communication to allow the data to reach a sink node. As a result, a fault in a single node can leave a part of the system inoperable until the node recovers from this failure. In light of this, this article outlines a solution that entails employing unmanned aerial vehicles to reduce the problems arising from faults in a sensor network when monitoring natural disasters like floods and landslides. In the solution put forward, UAVs can be transported to the site of the disaster to mitigate problems caused by faults (e.g., by serving as routers or even acting as a data mule). Experiments conducted with real UAVs and with our WSN-based prototype for flood detection (already deployed in Sao Carlos, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, have proven that this is a viable approach. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/22550-0 - Exploiting the sensor web and participatory sensing approaches for urban river monitoring |
| Grantee: | Jó Ueyama |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/06330-5 - An approach of intelligent decision for an infrastructure distributed home automation using wireless sensors and actuators |
| Grantee: | Geraldo Pereira Rocha Filho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |