Wireless Energy-Efficient System Based on the Directed Diffusion Routing Method for the High Density Seismic Array Survey

Abstract

High-density seismic array survey has attracted high R&D interest in geophysical methods in recent years, and it is an advanced seismic observation technology which is of great significance in oil and gas resource detection and underground space exploration. However, designing a portable sensor node that prolongs the lifetime and equips wireless monitoring system to improve construction efficiency has been still a challenge. In this paper, a portable energy-efficient wireless sensor node and a wireless communication system that content them with complex terrain, large-scale and reliable transmission is proposed to tackle the restrictions of high-density seismic array survey. This paper proposes a directed diffusion routing method which performs the energy-efficient design by maintaining the link gradient and the ability of automatic power adjustment. In addition, when the sink node initiates an instruction, it quickly covers all nodes and receives the response from the nodes. Then, a series of simulations and experiments are carried out for verification. The experiments show that the equivalent noise of the sensor node is 0.8μV@500Hz, which suggest good performance among the existing sensor nodes. Simulation results and performance analysis validate that the effectiveness of the proposed routing method can maintain the network with only 20mW at autonomous working mode. The field measurement results indicate that the wireless multi-hop energy-efficient system based on the directed diffusion routing method is suitable for the high-density seismic survey.