IMPROVE THE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR

MULTI-TARGET TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR

NETWORKS

BY
S.SARANYA
Register Number: 91709405013
of
SETHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
KARIAPATTI – 626 115

A PROJECT PHASE – I REPORT

Submitted to the

FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ENGINEERING

In partial fulfillment of the requirement

for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING
IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ANNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

TIRUNELVELI-627007
 ANNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
TIRUNELVELI-627007

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report titled “IMPROVE THE INFORMATION

QUALITY FOR MULTI-TARGET TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR

NETWORKS” is the bonafide work of Ms.S.SARANYA, Reg. no.91709405013

who carried out the research under my supervision. This is certified to the best of my

knowledge, the work reported here in does not form port of any other project report or

dissertation on the basis of which a degree or award was conferred on an earlier

occasion on this or any other candidate

SUPERVISOR HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

Mr. G.Suresh Kumar, M.Tech, Mrs.M.Sheerin Banu, M.Tech,(Ph.D),
Assistant Professor, Head of the Department,
Department of CSE, Department of CSE,
Sethu Institute of Technology, Sethu Institute of Technology ,
Kariapatti – 626 115. Kariapatti – 626 115

Submitted for the Viva-Voice Examination held at Sethu Institute of

Technology on _________________
EXTERNAL EXAMINER INTERNAL EXAMINER
 ABSTRACT

A wireless sensor network depends on the algorithms and protocols for

Communication and computation. In this paper, for multi-target tracking application
in Wireless Sensor Networks consisting of active sensors in which normally a sensor
senses the environment actively by emitting energy and measuring the reflected
energy, we present a novel collaborative sensing scheme to improve the IQ using joint
sensing and adaptive sensor scheduling. With multiple sensors participating in a
single sensing operation initiated by an emitting sensor, joint sensing can increase the
sensing region of an individual emitting sensor and generate multiple sensor
measurements simultaneously.

It is assumed that each sensor has a limited range for detecting the presence of
the object, and that the network is sufficiently dense so that the sensors cover the area
of interest. In order to conserve energy the sensors may be put into a sleep mode with
a timer that determines the sleep duration. It is assumed that a sensor that is asleep
cannot be communicated with or woken up, and hence the sleep duration needs to be
determined at the time the sensor goes to sleep based on all the information available
to the sensor. Extended Kalman filter (EKF) is employed to estimate the target state
using sensor measurements and to predict the target location. It is demonstrated by
simulation experiments that collaborative sensing can significantly improve the IQ,
and hence the tracking accuracy, as compared to individual sensing. Our future
research issues include sensor scheduling for joint sensing for large scale WSNs,
adaptive tracking algorithms for high maneuvering targets.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I honesty express my thank to Dr. A. Senthil Kumar Ph.D,

Principal, Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti and Mrs.M.Sheerin Banu,

M.Tech,(Ph.D) Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for

allowing to do this thesis work in Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti.

I have accumulated enormous amount of debts from my guide

Mr. G.Suresh Kumar, M.Tech, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer

Science and Engineering, who kind enough to provide me with all the facilities

irrespective of working timing and took keen and immense interest in guiding me to

the successful completion of this thesis work and who in fact, provided me the moral

supports and inspirations to continue with research works. I have been benefited from

his intellectual guidance, enlightening ideas, suggestions throughout the period of

execution and completion of this venture. I use this opportunity to acknowledge my

unforgettable sincere towards his.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page No

ABSTRACT iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

LIST OF FIGURES vi

LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS vii

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE SURVEY 4

CHAPTER 3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 8

3.1 Project Introduction 9

3.2 Existing System 11

3.3 Proposed System 11

CHAPTER 4 IMPLEMENTATION AND METHODOLOGY 14

4.1 System Specifications 15

4.2 Main Algorithm 16

4.3 Modules 18

CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION 20

CHAPTER 6 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT 22

CHAPTER 7 REFERENCES 24
 LIST OF FIGURES

Fig No Figure Name Page No

1 Joint Sensing 9

2 Joint Sensing region 10

3 Tracking in a wireless sensor network 12

4 Data Flow Diagram 18

 LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Symbols Abbreviations

WSN Wireless Sensor Networks

IQ Information Quality

QoI Quality of Information

TOA Time of Arrival

TOF Time of Flight

EKF Extended Kalman Filter