EleSense: Elevator-assisted wireless sensor data collection for high-rise structure monitoring

Feng Wang, Dan Wang, Jiangchuan Liu

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have been widely suggested to be used in Cyber-Physical Systems for Structural Health Monitoring. However, for nowadays high-rise structures (e.g., the Guangzhou New TV Tower, peaking at 600m above ground), the extensive vertical dimension creates enormous challenges toward sensor data collection, beyond those addressed in state-of-the-art mote-like systems. One example is the data transmission from the sensor nodes to the base station. Given the long span of the civil structures, neither a strategy of long-range one-hop data transmission nor short-range hop-by-hop communication is cost-efficient. In this paper, we propose EleSense, a novel high-rise structure monitoring framework that uses elevators to assist data collection. In EleSense, an elevator is attached with the base station and collects data when it moves to serve passengers; as such, the communication distance can be effectively reduced. To maximize the benefit, we formulate the problem as a cross-layer optimization problem and propose a centralized algorithm to solve it optimally. We further propose a distributed implementation to accommodate the hardware capability of sensor nodes and address other practical issues. Through extensive simulations, we show that EleSense has achieved a significant throughput gain over the case without elevators and a straightforward 802.11 MAC scheme without the cross-layer optimization. Moreover, EleSense can greatly reduce the communication costs while maintaining good fairness and reliability. We also conduct a case study with real experiments and data sets on the Guangzhou New TV Tower, which further validates the effectiveness of our EleSense.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, INFOCOM 2012
Pages163-171
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jun 2012
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2012 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: 25 Mar 201230 Mar 2012

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period25/03/1230/03/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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