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International Journal of Sensor Networks and Data Communications

ISSN: 2090-4886

Open Access

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      Research Article Pages: 1 - 5

      Comparative Study of Operating Modes for Low-power Wireless Sensor Networks in Vibration-based Machine Condition Monitoring

      David Alexander Ells*, Christopher Mechefske and Yongjun Lai

      DOI: 10.37421/2090-4886.2023.12.239

      Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be used for machine condition monitoring to improve performance and safety. However, they present challenges with respect to energy and data management. This paper presents a novel low-power WSN and compares the performance of operating modes and data processing methods for vibration-based machine condition monitoring. The necessary software was developed to perform time and frequency analysis, and a data reduction method was proposed to reduce the data packet size. The performance of the WSN end node was then tested, and its energy consumption was compared for different operating modes. Testing showed that the end node was capable of performing basic vibration analysis. However, contrary to expectations and other reports, results showed that processing data locally to reduce the packet size consumed more energy than transmitting the raw vibration data. While the data packet was effectively reduced by 98.6 percent from 4096 bytes to 56 bytes, results showed that processing data locally consumed 8.8 to 21.4 percent more energy than transmitting the raw data.

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