WSEAS Transactions on Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-2777, E-ISSN: 2224-2678
Volume 13, 2014
Optimal Placement of Sensor Network Hosted in Public Transport Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring
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Abstract: Smarter cities provide sustainable economic growth and prosperity to their citizens. Their leaders should have the tools to analyze municipality data from its environment to support best decisions, anticipating problems to resolve them proactively and to coordinate resources to operate effectively. For this reason, smart cities become sensitive, when instrumented with technological framework to collect environmental information. Providing a comprehensive view of the city requires a large number of sensors, in addition to a constant increase in order to follow the growth of the city. However, if the sensors are hosted on public transportation vehicles, the route is verified to cover the main populated areas, with a dynamic principle of growth, which adapts to the development of the city. Taking advantage of these principles, this paper proposes the best placement for the components of sensor network for environmental monitoring, which is maintained by the information from the sensors embedded in buses that capture data along their journey. Different communication patterns are simulated using Realistic mobility models for bus corridors in S˜ao Paulo city to define the best positioning to better disseminate the information collected.
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Pages: 177-186
WSEAS Transactions on Systems, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2777 / 2224-2678, Volume 13, 2014, Art. #16