An efficient networking solution for extending and controlling wireless sensor networks using low-energy technologies

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks connect a set of highly flexible wireless devices with small weight and size. They are used to monitor and control the environment by organizingthe acquired data at a central device. Constructing fully connected networks using lowpower consumption sensors, devices, and protocols is one of the main challenges facingwireless sensor networks, especially in places where it is difficult to establish wireless net-works in a normal way, such as military areas, archaeological sites, agricultural districts,construction sites, and so on. This paper proposes an approach for constructing andextending Bi-Directional mesh networks using low power consumption technologiesinside various indoors and outdoors architectures called "an adaptable Spider-Meshtopology". The use of ESP-NOW protocol as a communication technology addedan advantage of longer communication distance versus a slight increase of consumedpower. It provides 15 times longer distance compared to BLE protocol while consumingonly twice as much power. Therefore, according to our theoretical and experimentalcomparisons, the proposed approach could provide higher network coverage whilemaintaining an acceptable level of power consumption