Overcoming bandwidth limitations in wireless sensor networks by exploitation of cyclic signal patterns

An event-triggered learning approach

verfasst von
Jonas Beuchert, Friedrich Solowjow, Sebastian Trimpe, Thomas Seel
Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are used in a wide range of applications, many of which require real-time transmission of the measurements. Bandwidth limitations result in limitations on the sampling frequency and number of sensors. This problem can be addressed by reducing the communication load via data compression and event-based communication approaches. The present paper focuses on the class of applications in which the signals exhibit unknown and potentially time-varying cyclic patterns. We review recently proposed event-triggered learning (ETL) methods that identify and exploit these cyclic patterns, we show how these methods can be applied to the nonlinear multivariable dynamics of three-dimensional orientation data, and we propose a novel approach that uses Gaussian process models. In contrast to other approaches, all three ETL methods work in real time and assure a small upper bound on the reconstruction error. The proposed methods are compared to several conventional approaches in experimental data from human subjects walking with a wearable inertial sensor network. They are found to reduce the communication load by 60–70%, which implies that two to three times more sensor nodes could be used at the same bandwidth.

Externe Organisation(en)
University of Oxford
Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme (Stuttgart)
Technische Universität Berlin
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Sensors
Band
20
Anzahl der Seiten
19
ISSN
1424-3210
Publikationsdatum
2020
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Analytische Chemie, Information systems, Instrumentierung, Atom- und Molekularphysik sowie Optik, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Biochemie
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.3390/s20010260 (Zugang: Offen)
 

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