Mobile Agent-Based Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Network (MAEDWSN) in Ring Frame Machine

Continuous monitoring of production of yarn is an important process requirement for good productivity in a ring frame machine in textile industry. So, collecting the data on yarn breakages using an appropriate Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been taken as a research problem in this work. The paper describes a method in which a mobile agent communicates wirelessly with the sensor network to collect the yarn breakage data which would serve the mobile end-user. With a view to reducing the energy consumption of the sensors and the end-to-end delay, a new approach, viz., Mobile Agent-Based Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Network (MAEDWSN), has been proposed. In this scheme, a new residual energy-based cluster creation algorithm for dynamic selection of cluster head has been proposed to save the energy constrained sensor nodes. An attempt has been made using mobile agent middleware called Java Agent DEvelopment framework (JADE) which facilitates the agent development. The collected yarn breakage data by the mobile agent has also been made available to the end-user with the help of ‘Android’ a virtual mobile device. The simulated results have been compared with the well-known client-server approach