Power Efficient Routing Protocol (AODV) for IoT Based Livestock Applications

Abstract

The livestock breeding performance is becoming significant due to the global challenges of protein sources against the dramatic increase of world population that reaches 8 billion. Digitalization of livestock management technique could be the clue to increase productivity and improve operational efficiency. It could be done through control of losses and realization of models relating the productivity rates versus operational parameters counting on big volume of data being collected as a result of digitalization process. The use of Internet of Things (IoT) as a key technology by a lot of research entities is usually challenged by problems of energy and power-efficient communication technologies. In this paper, Adhoc network protocol study is presented with associated simulation models to pave the way for adopting IoT technology in livestock environments. It is proven that fixed network technologies in outdoor mobile use cases are very difficult to manage from battery life time perspective.