Reliability analysis for sensor networks and their data acquisition

a systematic literature review

authored by

Sören Meyer Zu Westerhausen, Jannik Schneider, Roland Lachmayer

Abstract

The use of sensor networks (SNs) on the surface or the inside of large-scale components allows the continuous acquisition of data on the applied loads and their structural integrity. A lot of publications on SN's system reliability deal with this topic from a hardware- or a data- and energy-oriented viewpoint. To give an overview on the state of the art in the field of reliability-oriented concept-optimization of SNs, a Systematic Literature Review is conducted. The found literature is used to investigate how different models combine the different viewpoints to analyse the system reliability. By analysing the results regarding the used reliability indicators and methods to assess the system reliability from the different viewpoints, it can be observed that most publications deal with the accuracy, loss and delay of data as well as the energy consumption in SNs. Few publications use common modelling methods like reliability block diagrams or Markov chains with a focus on the hardware reliability. Furthermore, none of the found publications combines the data, hardware and energy perspective and uses them to optimize a SN regarding its reliability from all three viewpoints.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Motion Engineering and Mechanism Design

Type

Conference article

Journal

Proceedings of the Design Society

Volume

3

Pages

3065-3074

No. of pages

10

Publication date

19.06.2023

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Science Applications, Software, Modelling and Simulation

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.307 (Access: Open)