A WSN Energy Management Architecture Applied to the Amazonian Region

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has the potential to enrich society with some benefits, better engineering, productivity, and improved security. The main goal of energy management architecture applied in networks is to be able to allow an efficient way to enhance sensor node energy autonomy. Nowadays, there are many open issues in WSN. One of them is the energy consumption management. The sensor node lifetime is reduced in some WSN mainly because of battery charge endurance. When the battery charge finishes, generally the sensor node is discarded. The main goal of this research is to show the use of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) into WSN energy management architecture applied to the Amazonian region. This architecture needs to consider battery recharging. The research purpose is to improve the energy management using the state-of-art of both software engineering and sensor networks, avoiding sensor node discarding. It tackles an ongoing research taking place at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - ITA), using software engineering best practices, MDA, modeling languages, and CASE tools.