MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641043556 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 6, for 'energy-efficient routing protocol for iot-based smart farming wireless sensor networks.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Selvi M; Mathivadhani Arul; Tripurana Shanmukha Pardhiv; and Srilekha Sridhar.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for IoT-Based Smart Farming Wireless Sensor Networks. The present invention relates to an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks deployed in Internet of Things based smart farming systems. A plurality of sensor nodes are distributed within a circular sensing region and a base station is positioned at a central location of the sensing region. The protocol determines geometric parameters of the sensor nodes relative to the base station and segments the sensing region into spatial clusters using angular multi-threshold segmentation. Cluster heads are selected from among the sensor nodes based on residual node energy and proximity to an analytically determined optimal radial region around the base station. Sensor nodes transmit sensed environmental data to corresponding cluster heads through intra-cluster communication, and the cluster heads aggregate the received data and transmit aggregated information to the base station. The clustering and cluster head selection processes are dynamically repeated during successive communication rounds based on updated residual energy of the sensor nodes. The routing protocol balances energy consumption among nodes, delays node failure, and extends operational lifetime of wireless sensor networks used in precision agriculture monitoring systems."
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