Vehicular Sinks Over Wide Area Wireless Sensor Networks for Telemetry Applications in Logistics

The paper analyzes the scenario of a logistic organization that collects customer inventory telemetries from wide area Wireless Sensor Networks, using mobile sinks installed on the vehicles used for deliveries. The paper analyzes the constraints of this scenario and proposes a distributed data collection algorithm for contextual ad-hoc network route discovery and message delivery, that combines control and telemetry data within the same messages. Simulations of the algorithm performance, based both on abstract parameters and on real data of oil & gas logistics, validate the algorithm and the application feasibility.