Study of vehicle monitoring application with wireless sensor networks

Recently wireless sensor networks have received increasing attention from the research community. Many applications based on these networks will be realized in the near future. Monitoring a moving object using sensor nodes is one such important application. The focus in this paper is on-site tracking in the context of wireless sensor networks. After formally characterizing this problem for single target case, the problem for multiple targets case is generalized. The online vehicle search and tracking algorithms are based on wireless sensor networks approach. Through the extensive simulation study it can be showed that these algorithms performed well on the tracking time without compromising much on the energy expenditures. Furthermore, the performance of the algorithms has been revealed in the simulation study.