Measuring the Location of Objects Using Sensor Networks

Abstract

One of the topical tasks is to determine the location of individual network objects. An indispensable condition for the operation of any monitoring and control system is the binding of data collected by the system to geographic coordinates for displaying the collected information on the map and further analysis. In addition, such a network (unlike traditional radio networks) in the presence of a built-in subsystem of the positioning of individual objects can be deployed virtually anywhere with minimal costs. This can be done, for example, by scattering objects from the aircraft. In addition to the binding of the data received in the process of work to the map of the area, information about the coordinates of objects will be needed in the process of functioning of the network itself (building efficient in terms of energy consumption of routing algorithms, collection of data). In this regard, the development of algorithms for determining the coordinates of objects in the sensor network becomes an urgent task.