Aishwarya Jain received his Master of Science – Dual Degree in  Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE). His research work was supervised by Dr. G Rama Murthy. Here’s a summary of his research work on Intelligent transportation system using wireless sensors networks:

Wireless sensor networks are a network of small or large, dedicated sensors which are designed for some particular and specialized purposes. These purposes can range from monitoring environmental behaviour like temperature, pressure change etc. to monitoring some man-made physical objects and activities like vehicles speed, sound, density in a region etc. Basically, sensor networks have a huge application in fields which includes environment monitoring, natural or man-made object tracking, fire and water detection, natural calamity detection and traffic monitoring. These groups of sensors and actuators collect information and data for the purpose they have been designed to and then send all the information to a centre location for processing or for general storage in databases for future use. Based on the topologies of the networks and routing protocols, a particular sensor network can be classified as hierarchical-based routing, location-based routing and flat-based routing. These protocols are very simple in nature and thus are very prone to attacks like Selective forwarding, HELLO flood attack, Sinkhole attack, Sybil attack, Wormholes, replaying routing information and Acknowledgement spoofing or altering. Also, since one of the properties of these sensors is limited power, the wireless sensor networks consisting of such sensors generally face power shortages or outages all together. Wireless Sensors that are small and limited battery capacity are widely used for several different applications. For this reason, energy efficiency as well as cost of the overall network are the two main factors influencing the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) performance. Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) is an energy-efficient hierarchical-based routing protocol. Prime focus of this thesis is to analyse various existing LEACH protocols and to propose new LEACH Protocol to resolve some of the above-mentioned issues related to wireless sensor networks. Along with the improvement in the existing LEACH protocol, we have also tried to relate it to one of the wireless sensor networks best application: Intelligent Transportation system, by taking a look at an approach which indexes physical location of various entities across the globe. In future, combining this improvement in LEACH protocol along with the proposed indexing system approach may result in an even better and intelligent transportation system.

June 2023