A noble wireless sensor routing application for disaster mitigation

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks can provide low cost solution to verity of real world problems. Sensors are low cost tiny devices with limited storage, computational capability and power. They can be deployed in large scale for performing military, civilian and environmental surveillance tasks. The focus of this paper is a specialized architecture of wireless sensor networks targeted to disaster mitigation and have developed a new fault tolerant routing application for disaster monitoring and mitigation. This scheme can be used in cases where we need to continue our surveillance even after disaster, this happens specially in case of earthquake where minor and major seismic generally follow one after another and also in some post disaster relief services like checking of road availability and rescue of casualties. The resulting protocol is shown to continue operation in spite of breakdown of several components in the system i.e. fault tolerance.