Devising Mobile Sensing and Actuation Infrastructure with Drones
- Authors
- Bae, Mungyu; Yoo, Seungho; Jung, Jongtack; Park, Seongjoon; Kim, Kangho; Lee, Joon Yeop; Kim, Hwangnam
- Issue Date
- 2월-2018
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- wireless sensor and actuator networks; drone network; connectivity; architectures and applications for the Internet of Things; opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks
- Citation
- SENSORS, v.18, no.2
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SENSORS
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 2
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/77473
- DOI
- 10.3390/s18020624
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
- Abstract
- Vast applications and services have been enabled as the number of mobile or sensing devices with communication capabilities has grown. However, managing the devices, integrating networks or combining services across different networks has become a new problem since each network is not directly connected via back-end core networks or servers. The issue is and has been discussed especially in wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN). In such systems, sensors and actuators are tightly coupled, so when an independent WSAN needs to collaborate with other networks, it is difficult to adequately combine them into an integrated infrastructure. In this paper, we propose drone-as-a-gateway (DaaG), which uses drones as mobile gateways to interconnect isolated networks or combine independent services. Our system contains features that focus on the service being provided in the order of importance, different from an adaptive simple mobile sink system or delay-tolerant system. Our simulation results have shown that the proposed system is able to activate actuators in the order of importance of the service, which uses separate sensors' data, and it consumes almost the same time in comparison with other path-planning algorithms. Moreover, we have implemented DaaG and presented results in a field test to show that it can enable large-scale on-demand deployment of sensing and actuation infrastructure or the Internet of Things (IoT).
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