The Addition of Geolocation to Sensor Networks

Robert Bryce, Gautam Srivastava

2018

Abstract

Sensor networks are recently rapidly growing research area in wireless communications and distributed networks. A sensor network is a densely deployed wireless network of small, low cost sensors, which can be used in various applications like health, environmental monitoring, military, natural disaster relief, and finally gathering and sensing information in inhospitable locations to name a few. In this paper, we focus on one specific type of sensor network called MQTT, which stands for Message Queue Transport Telemetry. MQTT is an open source publisher/subscriber standard for M2M (Machine to Machine) communication. This makes it highly suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) messaging situations where power usage is at a premium or in mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers. In its original state, MQTT is lacking the ability to broadcast geolocation as part of the protocol itself. In today’s age of IoT however, it has become more pertinent to have geolocation as part of the protocol. In this paper, we add geolocation to the MQTT protocol and offer a revised version, which we call MQTT-G. We describe the protocol here and show where we were able to embed geolocation successfully.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bryce R. and Srivastava G. (2018). The Addition of Geolocation to Sensor Networks.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-320-9, pages 762-768. DOI: 10.5220/0006921907620768

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft18,
author={Robert Bryce and Gautam Srivastava},
title={The Addition of Geolocation to Sensor Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2018},
pages={762-768},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006921907620768},
isbn={978-989-758-320-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - The Addition of Geolocation to Sensor Networks
SN - 978-989-758-320-9
AU - Bryce R.
AU - Srivastava G.
PY - 2018
SP - 762
EP - 768
DO - 10.5220/0006921907620768