Today, wireless technology allows us to connect large number of
sensors to form a network, without the inconvenience of wires.
These Wireless Sensor Networks can be used to autonomously monitor
the environment at a high level of detail. As the sensors improve
in battery life, computational power, and communication range, it
grows more feasible to consider their use for bushfire detection
and data-gathering.
To exploit this new wireless technology, we must investigate how
to best utilise them. However, experimentation with actual sensor
networks is difficult for a number of reasons. It is costly, and in
some cases, impossible to test certain scenarios. For example, we
cannot feasably test applications involving extreme fires.
To overcome this problem, we use modelling to create a virtual
world to conduct our experiments in. The primary challenge is to be
able to produce an accurate model that captures the behaviour of
the sensor network and the bushfires on the landscape
Project Link: A 5.1
