Efficient Power Consumption Strategies for Stationary Sensors Connected to GSM Network

Gabor Paller, Péter Szármes, Gábor Élő

2015

Abstract

The number of large sensor systems are rapidly growing nowadays in many fields. Well-designed Big Data solutions are able to manage the enormous data flow and create real business benefits. One dynamically growing application area is precision farming. It requires robust and energy-efficient sensors, because the devices are placed outdoors, often in harsh conditions, and there is no power outlet in the middle of a corn field. Power efficiency is one of the major themes of the Internet of Things (IoT). According to the IoT vision, embedded sensors send their data to processing units (either located near to the sensor or on some intermediate gateway device or in the cloud) using heterogeneous transport networks. Some sensors employ short-range network like Bluetooth and some gateway device like a tablet. Other sensors directly connect to wide-area networks like cellular networks. This paper will analyse different communication patterns accomplished over GSM network from the viewpoint of the energy consumption of the sensor device with the assumption that the sensor is stationary. The measurements were done using two different GSM modems designed for embedded systems to ensure that the results represent a wider picture and not some implementation property of a particular GSM modem. Recommendations are given about the strategies applications should follow in order to minimize the energy consumption of their GSM subsystems.

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in Harvard Style

Paller G., Szármes P. and Élő G. (2015). Efficient Power Consumption Strategies for Stationary Sensors Connected to GSM Network . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-086-4, pages 63-68. DOI: 10.5220/0005262500630068


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets15,
author={Gabor Paller and Péter Szármes and Gábor Élő},
title={Efficient Power Consumption Strategies for Stationary Sensors Connected to GSM Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2015},
pages={63-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005262500630068},
isbn={978-989-758-086-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - Efficient Power Consumption Strategies for Stationary Sensors Connected to GSM Network
SN - 978-989-758-086-4
AU - Paller G.
AU - Szármes P.
AU - Élő G.
PY - 2015
SP - 63
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0005262500630068