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The Internet of Things emphasizes the concept of objects connected with each other, which includes all kinds of wireless sensor networks. An important issue is to reduce the energy consumption in the sensor networks since sensor nodes always have energy constraints. Deployment of thousands of wireless sensors in an appropriate pattern will simultaneously satisfy the application requirements and reduce the sensor network energy consumption. This article deployed a number of sensor nodes to record temperature data. The data was then used to predict the temperatures of some of the sensor node using linear programming. The predictions were able to reduce the node sampling rate and to optimize the node deployment to reduce the sensor energy consumption. This method can compensate for the temporarily disabled nodes. The main objective is to design the objective function and determine the constraint condition for the linear programming. The result based on real experiments shows that this method successfully predicts the values of unknown sensor nodes and optimizes the node deployment. The sensor network energy consumption is also reduced by the optimized node deployment.


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Optimization of the Deployment of Temperature Nodes Based on Linear Programing in the Internet of Things

Show Author's information Liang HuZhengyu ZhangFeng WangKuo Zhao( )
School of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

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The Internet of Things emphasizes the concept of objects connected with each other, which includes all kinds of wireless sensor networks. An important issue is to reduce the energy consumption in the sensor networks since sensor nodes always have energy constraints. Deployment of thousands of wireless sensors in an appropriate pattern will simultaneously satisfy the application requirements and reduce the sensor network energy consumption. This article deployed a number of sensor nodes to record temperature data. The data was then used to predict the temperatures of some of the sensor node using linear programming. The predictions were able to reduce the node sampling rate and to optimize the node deployment to reduce the sensor energy consumption. This method can compensate for the temporarily disabled nodes. The main objective is to design the objective function and determine the constraint condition for the linear programming. The result based on real experiments shows that this method successfully predicts the values of unknown sensor nodes and optimizes the node deployment. The sensor network energy consumption is also reduced by the optimized node deployment.

Keywords: Internet of Things, energy consumption, linear programming, optimized node deployment

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Received: 02 April 2013
Revised: 01 May 2013
Accepted: 01 May 2013
Published: 03 June 2013
Issue date: June 2013

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This work was supported in part by the National High-Tech Research and Development (863) Program of China (No. 2011AA010101), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61103197 and 61073009), the Science and Technology Key Project of Jilin Province (No. 2011ZDGG007), the Youth Foundation of Jilin Province of China (No. 201101035), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No. 200903179).

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