Extending Monitoring Area of Production Plant Using Synchronized Relay Node Message Scheduling

Abstract

Abstract—Low rate  wireless sensor  network  has been used in industrial plant  for  certain  production monitorings  which  have slow production rate. In the case of adding production line in the different  building within one factory area, relay nodes are needed to increase monitoring coverage and connectivity among all nodes in the plant  area.  This paper  presents  the performance of relay node message scheduling  scheme for extending  monitoring area of production plan  by  using  low rate  wireless  sensor  network. The simulation  results demonstrate that the distance and number of hop  from  certain  relay nodes to the  sink  affect message  end to end delay. Furthermore, increasing  message rate  generated by relay nodes  also  contributes in  leveraging  end  to  end  delay  of each message due to increasing  queueing  delay.