Citation

Zhou G. Int. J. Dist. Sensor Netw. 2019; 15(1): e1550147718822840.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1550147718822840

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In recent years, with the rapid development of microelectronics technology, sensing technology, and wireless communication technology, as an emerging technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become a hot research field at home and abroad. WSNs have outstanding advantages of easy configuration, flexible networking, and strong fault-tolerance and mobility. Therefore, they play an increasingly important role in unfamiliar and unexplored environmental monitoring, emergency rescue, healthcare, industrial monitoring, target location, and so on. Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) are the extension of the application of WSNs in underground environment. Compared with the above-ground environment, due to the complex and uncertain factors of underground environment, limited communication range and hard energy supplement, the application of WUSNs is more challenging. The application of WSNs in underground environment is extremely wide, such as the monitoring of coal mining equipment, subways, oil pipelines, and natural gas pipelines. Once these equipments fail, it is easy to cause casualties, which is a waste of resources, and would lead to economic losses. For the reasons above, many scholars launched research on WUSNs...

Language: en