Distributive Model-Based Sensor Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks

This poster presents a distributed model-based fault detection algorithm which is based on local pair-wise verification. We first show that there exists a linear relationship between the outputs of any pair of sensors. Therefore, a network can be partitioned into sensor pairs, and the relationship between a pair of sensors can be modeled by a linear model. In addition to detecting general faults happened within a sensor pair, we developed an algorithm for identifying non-linearity type of fault without the use of reference sensors. Preliminary performance analysis shows that this scalable algorithm achieves high diagnosis accuracy. Communication power is also greatly reduced by the distributed nature of the algorithm.