Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Mobile Robots for Emergency Surveillance

For many long-standing problems, technology has become the solution and even if the current technology is effective, it is far from fully addressing the huge, complex, difficult and challenging tasks associated with disaster missions and risky intervention. The field of robotics draws on a multitude of engineering disciplines. Robotics can be used in finding creative and reliable scenarios in such uncertain conditions and in rescue systems. It should be cost effective, innovative and practically applicable without any constraints. The greatest advantage of using robotics is their flexibility and large movement range. This paper initially gives an overview of wireless sensor networks and robotics. Then muti-tier system architecture for monitoring the robots in disaster environments has been discussed. In this system, the wireless sensor nodes are carried by the mobile robots and deploy them on the ground or walls of the unstable environment. Using the sensor nodes, the mobile robots gather exact information regarding the environment and the victims. The proposed system also aims to save energy for increasing the lifetime of the sensor nodes.