Sensors Energy Optimization for Renewable Energy-Based WBANs on Sporadic Elder Movements

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jul 28;22(15):5654. doi: 10.3390/s22155654.

Abstract

The world is advancing to a new era where a new concept is emerging that deals with "wirelessness". As we know, renewable energy is the future, and this research studied the integration of both fields that results in a futuristic, powerful, and advanced model of wireless body area networks. Every new emerging technology does have some cons; in this case the issue would be the usage of excess energy by the sensors of the model. Our research is focused on solving this excessive usage of energy to promote the optimization of energy. This research work is aimed to design a power-saving protocol (PSP) for wireless body area networks (WBANs) in electronic health monitoring (EHM). Our proposed power-saving protocol (PSP) supports the early detection of suspicious signs or sporadic elder movements. The protocol focuses on solving the excessive energy consumption by the body attached to IoT devices to maximize the power efficiency (EE) of WBAN. In a WSNs network, the number of sensor nodes (SNs) interact with an aggregator and are equipped with energy harvesting capabilities. The energy optimization for the wireless sensor networks is a vital step and the methodology is completely based on renewable energy resources. Our proposed power-saving protocol is based on AI and DNN architectures with a hidden Markov model to obtain the top and bottom limits of the SN sources and a less computationally challenging suboptimal elucidation. The research also addressed many critical technical problems, such as sensor node hardware configuration and energy conservation. The study performed the simulation using the OMNET++ environment and represent through results the source rate to power critical SNs improves WBAN's scheme performance in terms of power efficiency of Sporadic Elder Movements (SEM) during various daily operations.

Keywords: Boltzmann machines; sensor nodes; sporadic elder movements; wireless body area network.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Communication Networks*
  • Physical Phenomena
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wireless Technology*

Grants and funding

This study was funded by National Research Development Projects to finance excellence (PFE)-14/2022-2024 granted by the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation. This paper was partially supported by UEFISCDI Romania and MCI through projects AISTOR, FinSESco, CREATE, I-DELTA, DEFRAUDIFY, Hydro3D, FED4FIRE—SO-SHARED, AIPLAN—STORABLE, EREMI, NGI-UAV-AGRO and by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreements No. 872172 (TESTBED2) and No. 777996 (SealedGRID).