Energy conservation in a wireless sensor network by an efficient routing mechanism

Energy consumption is an important consideration in sensor networks for sensing, computation, and communication. For any sensor network, either ad hoc or distributed, controlled or self-organized, energy management is crucial since the lifetime of a sensor node depends exclusively on its limited battery capacity (except for physical damage and system failures), hence, it is extremely important to adopt energy-efficient strategies for data gathering as well as information processing within the network. Our focus here is to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks for data communication. In this paper we have proposed an algorithm which will ensure that data is transmitted to the Fusion Node in all scenarios considering the efficient energy consumption factor and also the propagation delay.