An intelligent routing approach for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensing technology becomes a new scientific instrument for physical and environmental monitoring. The technology involves deploying a large number of tiny sensor nodes that cooperatively sense and report a specific condition at various locations to the base station. This class of applications faces many challenges, mainly caused by communication failures, storage and computational constraints and limited power supply. Therefore, sensing applications require intelligent, energy-efficient and self-organizing approaches. This paper proposes a novel intelligent routing approach for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that achieves between 25%-50% energy saving compared to the existing WSNs´ routing algorithms. It also improves the overall performance of WSNs for real world applications.