Routing protocol of the wireless sensor networks for bridge health monitoring

By analyzing the reason that why the existing routing protocols cannot be applied to the wireless sensor networks for bridge health monitoring, a new routing protocol is proposed. Since the locations of the collecting modules are fixed, the proposed protocol exchanges the routing information between the neighbor nodes by adjusting the exchange cycle according to reliability of the modules. For the low routing security requirement, while to increase the routing efficient, the middle nodes replying the routing requirements with variable thresholds is introduced. In order to make full use of information in route discovering procedure, the backup routes mechanism is adopted. The proposed protocol can efficiently forward data and is suitable for the bridge health monitoring.