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Development of an Energy Efficient WSN for Monitoring High Voltage Transmission Towers

Kurtoglu, Abdullah
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1513956888684835

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2017, Master of Science in Engineering, University of Akron, Electrical Engineering.
In this thesis, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) using ZigBee and LoRaWan platforms are designed for monitoring High Voltage Transmission Towers (HVTTs). Four WSN designs, one implemented in ZigBee RF technology and three in LoRa technology, are developed and compared in simulation. The main metric used for the comparison is energy efficiency; energy efficiency is an important issue for the HVTT monitoring application because HVTTs are generally located in remote areas, where changing batteries is inconvenient or impossible. Moreover, if a WSN design is significantly energy efficient, a WSN with infinite lifetime can be implemented by using renewable energy sources to harvest energy at each HVTT. Simulations of energy consumption for the four WSN designs clearly show that the third LoRaWan WSN design, which is a tailor-made network architecture based on the Modified Multi Clustering (MMC) algorithm that was developed as part of the work, has better energy efficient performance; the maximum overall communications energy required for a single HVTT in a network of 100 HVTTs is 38.03 Joules per day for the ZigBee WSN design based on a standard multi-hop routing algorithm, 55.87 Joules per day for the first LoRaWan WSN design based on a standard multi-hop routing algorithm, 19.90 Joules per day for the second LoRaWan WSN design based on the Classic Clustering (CC) algorithm, and 10.76 Joules per day for the third LoRaWan WSN design based on the MMC algorithm.
Joan E. Carletta (Advisor)
Kye-Shin Lee (Advisor)
Yilmaz Sozer (Committee Member)
127 p.
Electrical Engineering

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  • Kurtoglu, A. (2017). Development of an Energy Efficient WSN for Monitoring High Voltage Transmission Towers [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1513956888684835

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kurtoglu, Abdullah. Development of an Energy Efficient WSN for Monitoring High Voltage Transmission Towers. 2017. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1513956888684835.

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  • Kurtoglu, Abdullah. "Development of an Energy Efficient WSN for Monitoring High Voltage Transmission Towers." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1513956888684835

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