Abstract
With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), the research on Smart Cities with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) got leveraged due to similarities between objectives in both Smart City and IoT. Along with them, research in controlling WSN faces new challenges and opportunities for data aggregation and routing has received consistent focus from researchers. Yet new techniques are being proposed to address modern challenges in WSN and efficient resource utilization. Moreover, solutions are required to integrate existing deployed WSN with ever increasing numbers of IoT devices in Smart Cities, that benefit both. In this work, we present an approach for routing in a WSN, in which IoT is used opportunistically to reduce the communication overhead of the sensors. In our approach, WSN deployed in a Smart City interacts with the IoT devices to route the data to the sink. We build a prototype Integration Platform for the WSN that allows interaction with IoT devices and utilizes them opportunistically that results in an energy efficient routing of data. Simulation results show that the direction is quite promising and our approach offers to utilize IoT to gain unique advantages.
Highlights
In this era, there are billions of sensor-enabled intelligent devices on the Internet that collectively form a huge entity known as Internet of Things (IoTs) [1]
This paper presents an opportunistic use of IoT for better resource utilization of a wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by building Integration Platform (IT Platform)
IoT devices are not a part of WSN, rather they are external to the WSN, and WSN opportunistically uses them to route its data
Summary
There are billions of sensor-enabled intelligent devices on the Internet that collectively form a huge entity known as Internet of Things (IoTs) [1]. According to Cisco [2], by 2020 fifty billion devices will be connected to the Internet, depicting the potential and complexity of using such an inter-connectivity. An underlying simple concept of ”Anything connected at anytime” [3] in an IoT opens new ways of interdisciplinary research. From bare hardware sensing platforms to upper most application layer, IoTs has created new horizons for researchers. IoT devices are spread city wide, perform their functions and share information for the betterment of quality of citizens’ lives. It is important to notice similarities in the aims and objectives of both Smart City and IoTs [1]
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