Comparative study for energy consumption in wireless biosensors used for landmine detection

Landmines are stilled scattered even today in many countries affected by wars. Conventional detection approaches are not optimized because the staff involved in this process although skilled and experimented, requires a long time for a safe and for an efficient detection that uses costly and accurate equipments. Therefore, some research are actually focusing on using wireless sensors networks for this purpose hoping that faster, safer, more accurate and more cost-effective methods will be found. Within this context, this work considers a network made of wireless biosensors randomly spread over the landmines field. It presents a comparative study on the energy consumption when different scenarios of data transfer are adopted. Simulation results are obtained in order to help in finding the optimal solution where the minimum data is lost, the minimum energy is consumed and the minimum redundant data is collected.