Short paper: MPOT: 3D Mote placement optimization tool for wireless sensor networks

The area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted many researchers lately. The applications of WSNs have been widely spread in different fields including battle and health monitoring fields. In addition, smart environment became one of the important applications of the WSNs. However, the current simulators are still limited to cover all of the applications of WSNs, especially the ones that require deployment in three dimensions (3D) such as smart home, smart classroom, smart city, and smart University. In this paper, we introduce our vision and implementation of the first 3D WSN simulator, to the best of our knowledge. In addition, we present the concept of multimodal WSNs where a Motes may involve different sensing devices. Some parts of our simulator, named Mote Placement Optimization Tool (MPOT), are built on of-the-shelf components with some modifications. Throughout the paper, we report our experience and progress in building such 3D simulator. This work is part of Web of Object project sponsored by ITEA 2 (UK) and ITIDA (Egypt).