APPLICATION OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR MONITORING ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINES : A SURVEY

Authors

  • S. A. Mikail Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
  • A. M. Abba Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
  • A. Y. Kassim Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
  • Z. Z. Muhammad Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Keywords:

Algorithms, transmission lines, wireless chargers, wireless rechargeable sensor networks, wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor nodes are low-powered and highly essential entities of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) used for monitoring areas of interest. WSN finds application in tracking,
monitoring of industrial processes, detection of unwanted events, and so on. Due to the low-
cost, low-storage, and low-processing power requirements of sensors, the nodes are mostly
embedded with batteries of limited energy. When the nodes are exhausted, their batteries need
to be recharged or replaced. There are three popular paradigms of WSN: those whose nodes’
batteries cannot be replenished, those whose nodes’ batteries can be replenished wirelessly
by a recharger, and those whose nodes’ scavenge energy from the ambient environment.
Faults on medium-voltage lines can be precisely located using WSN thereby reducing effort
and time wasted in manually tracing of faults. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-
the-art survey of WSN paradigms and suggests the most suitable paradigm for deployment in
monitoring electricity transmission lines.

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Published

2020-09-02

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Articles