Open-Source Source Wireless Sensor System for Long-Term Long Term Monitoring of Slope Movement
Abstract: Power consumption is one of the major issues associated with deploying a wireless sensor to monitor natural environments in the real world. It is not practical to frequently replace the battery of a sensor that is located in a remote mountainous area. Whilee considering to save valuable energy, the sensor must be able to detect a particular event in a timely manner and report data. To satisfy these requirements, in this paper, we present a wireless sensor system, termed SMARTCONE, which is designed to monito monitorr the slope movement and minimize the standby power consumption, while remaining active to detect events. Multiple SMARTCONEs need to synchronously change their operation modes to collect the physical parameters and transmit raw vibration data simultaneously. simultaneous SMARTCONE is consuming a power of only 0.05 mA at 3.6 V in standby mode, which is significantly less than that consumed by the previous design. As far as we know, SMARTCONE is an unprecedented instrument for the monitoring of slope movement; no other instruments nstruments can achieve such a low-energy low energy consumption while being triggered by external vibration and managed remotely. These complicated issues are considered while designing the SMARTCONE, whose performance is then evaluated. In order to prevent redundant effort and to reduce the entry-level level knowledge required by the users who wish to design a system, and to promote the use of this design for monitoring natural