Target tracking and mobile sensor navigation using weighted tracking algorithm

In the last years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs)have gained increasing attention from both the research community and actual users. As sensor nodes are generally battery-powered devices, the critical aspects to face concern how to reduce the energy consumption of nodes, so that the network lifetime can be extended to reasonable times. This paper presents the applications of Wireless Sensor Networks and Remote Cameras used in Environmental monitoring. Wildlife tracking and ecological monitoring are important for scientific monitoring, wildlife rehabilitation, disease control, and sustainable ecological development. Recent advances in wireless and electronic technologies have enabled a wide range of applications of WSNs in military, traffic surveillance, target tracking, environment monitoring, healthcare monitoring, and so on. Studying animal movement and distribution is of critical importance to addressing environmental challenges including invasive species, infectious diseases, climate and land-use change. Motion sensitive camera traps offer a visual sensor to record the presence of a species at a location, recording their movement. Modern digital camera traps that record video present new analytical opportunities, but also new data management challenges. The future developments in sensor nodes must produce very powerful and cost effective devices, so that they may be used in applications like underwater acoustic sensor systems, sensing based cyber physical systems, time critical applications, cognitive sensing and spectrum management, and security and privacy management.