Wireless Communication System for River Monitoring: An Energy-based Study

Abstract

Modern society is in significant need of more efficient and functional sensor networks that can improve the safety and quality of everyday life and the environment. This paper proposes a Wireless Communication System architecture to monitor the potential pollution from a petroleum refinery and water canal Danube-Tisa-Danube in river Danube, located in an urban part Novi Sad town, to achieve better energy efficiency while forwarding data packets consistently. The proposed architecture is implemented using Omnet++ simulator, and the energy model of wireless hosts in the available INET framework. Finally, the simulation results are presented and discussed.