Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

In recent years, the number of wireless sensor network deployments for real life applications has rapidly increased. Still, the energy problem remains one of the major barriers somehow preventing the complete exploitation of this technology. Sensor nodes are typically powered by batteries with a limited lifetime and, even when additional energy can be harvested from the external environment (e.g., through solar cells or piezo-electric mechanisms), it remains a limited resource to be consumed judiciously. Efficient energy management is thus a key requirement for a credible design of a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks find great applications in radiation levels control, noise pollution control, atmospheric pollution control, structural health monitoring and smart vehicle parking. All sensors present in wireless sensor network are battery operated devices which have limited battery power. After the deployment of sensor devices it is impossible to replace each and every battery present in the network. So energy conservation must be taken. In this paper we proposed an energy efficient dynamic power management technique which can reduce power consumed by each sensor node by shutting down some components of sensors according to our algorithm which yields better savings and enhanced life time.