Sunday 6 March 2016

Week 5: Summary of project

This week, the main work is to finish the design of poster, summarize our works and ensure that each groups member understand the object and results of the project.
Firstly, the final poster had been finished and the layout is shown below.
Figure 1: the final layout of the poster

Then, some flowcharts of the program is achieved by developer.

Figure 2: the flowchart of program

From Figure 2, the top block means the operating environment. In hardware part, some properties of sensor node such as ID and coordinate are belong to sensorNode class. In addition, there are some functions for nodes such as add sub-nodes. Meanwhile, there are three matrices for achieving the systematism of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which had been introduced in previous blogs. After forming the system, the sink is selected according to minimum number of hops. And the function of the sink is to collect the energy from sensors. Final part is network interface, three routing protocols calls the transitions between two nodes.

The other flowchart shows power consumption model.

Figure 3: power consumption model of WSNs

There are mainly two signal processing circuits to consume power. First of all, transmission circuit contains two parts: transmission circuit and power amplifier. The function of power amplifier is to transmit the signal packets further. Similarly, reception circuit and low noise amplifier consume energy. The noise is filtered by using low noise amplifier.
Overall, the object of the project was generally achieved. Each routing protocol has their own advantages and the third routing protocol (FLOODING 2.0) has better properties than other two protocols.
Next week, it is bench inspection and we need to prepare a presentation. In addition, every group member does their own works responsibly and best wishes for our group!