Evaluation of a simulated distributed sensor- and computational network for numerical prediction calculations

Abstract

In this paper we investigate a sensor network architecture with in-network computation capabilities. The computational tasks are based on numerical calculations, and the parallelization is provided on the lowest, mathematical layer. Since the real network nodes are equipped with atmospheric sensors, we chose a very simple weather prediction model based on the barotropic vorticity equation. To evaluate our network’s capability of producing accurate prediction results, the simulations were executed on a European grid. We used recently measured publicly available data as initial values. Below the results of the distributed calculations are shown.