Smartening the Environment using Wireless Sensor Networks in a Developing Country

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The miniaturization process of various sensing devices has become a reality by enormous research and advancements accomplished in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) lithography. Regardless of such extensive efforts in optimizing the hardware, algorithm, and protocols for networking, there still remains a lot of scope to explore how these innovations can all be tied together to design Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for smartening the surrounding environment for some practical purposes. In this paper we explore the prospects of wireless sensor networks and propose a design level framework for developing a smart environment using WSNs, which could be beneficial for a developing country like Bangladesh. In connection to this, we also discuss the major aspects of wireless sensor networks.

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The miniaturization process of various sensing devices has become a reality by enormous research and advancements accomplished in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) lithography. Regardless of such extensive efforts in optimizing the hardware, algorithm, and protocols for networking, there still remains a lot of scope to explore how these innovations can all be tied together to design Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for smartening the surrounding environment for some practical purposes. In this paper we explore the prospects of wireless sensor networks and propose a design level framework for developing a smart environment using WSNs, which could be beneficial for a developing country like Bangladesh. In connection to this, we also discuss the major aspects of wireless sensor networks.

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Smartening the Environment using Wireless Sensor Networks in a Developing Country

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan Department of Computer Engg. Kyung Hee University, Korea spathan@networking.khu.ac.kr

Choong Seon Hong Department of Computer Engg. Kyung Hee University, Korea cshong@khu.ac.kr

Hyung-Woo Lee Department of Software Hanshin University, Korea hwlee@hs.ac.kr Abstract  The miniaturization process of various sensing devices has become a reality by enormous research and advancements accomplished in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) lithography. Regardless of such extensive efforts in optimizing the hardware, algorithm, and protocols for networking, there still remains a lot of scope to explore how these innovations can all be tied together to design Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for smartening the surrounding environment for some practical purposes. In this paper we explore the prospects of wireless sensor networks and propose a design level framework for developing a smart environment using WSNs, which could be beneficial for a developing country like Bangladesh. In connection to this, we also discuss the major aspects of wireless sensor networks.

Keywords  Smart, Environment, Wireless, Sensor, Bangladesh.

1. Introduction

   The notion of smart environment is becoming a reality with the advancements of various smart technologies. Smart environments represent the future evolutionary development step for the real world environment of present time. A smart environment, like any conscious organism, relies first and foremost on sensory data acquired from multiple sensors in distributed locations of real world. It gathers information about its surroundings as well as about its internal workings [1]. In the recent years, an exciting new type of networks has emerged, called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) [2], [3]. The deployment of such networks not only effectively acquires the data from different locations and then distribute to the management centers but also facilitates other applications for facing disasters and other environmental issues. In this paper, we explore the scope to deploy Wireless Sensor Networks for developing a smart environment especially in Bangladesh to facilitate various sophisticated systems to face disasters like flood, tsunami, and cyclones as well as to enhance road traffic monitoring system. In fact, the notion of smart environment has a great potential for a developing country like Bangladesh which faces different types of natural disasters each year. While some other works [4], [5], [6] focus on specific topics like smart homes, smart classrooms etc. as a part of smart environment, we explore the promise of wireless

This work was supported by MIC and ITRC Project sensor networks for smartening the environment by up-gradation of various monitoring and warning systems aided with wireless sensing technology. The organization of this paper is as follows: Section 2 discusses some related works on smart environment, Section 3 gives an overview of smart sensors and smart wireless sensor networks, Section 4 mentions some positive aspects of WSN that makes it attractive for its deployment in real-world, Section 5 tells about the application view of smart environment and systems in Bangladesh using WSNs and Section 6 concludes the paper.

2. Related Works

   Smart sensor nodes show great promise for making our lifestyle better than that of today. The smartness and type of tasks expected from smart sensors consequently led to the notion of smart environment. In some previous studies smart sensors and their possible applications were examined. Henderson et. al. [7] studied the sensors and proposed deployment and exploitation of large number of sensors to obtain a trigger action over a large geographic area. They discussed several issues in their work including sensor distribution pattern and local sensor frames. Hamrita et. al. [8] gives an overview of smart dust technology and illustrates the application view using their prototype which uses the Berkeley smart sensor “Mote”. Zhang et. al. [9], in their study explored the smart sensors and smart sensor networks. Their work discussed some issues related to smart sensor and smart sensor network that are to be resolved. [10] presents an overview of ad-hoc smart environments and mentions a number of research issues and challenges for designing such environments. Some other studies [11], [12] investigated various facets of the research on smart environment using smart sensing technologies.
   In this paper, we investigate how smart sensors could be used for developing a smart environment using wireless sensor network technologies in an actual setting. For our study we considered a developing country Bangladesh and analyzing various aspects we propose a de

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