An Energy Efficient Scheme for IoT (EES4IoT)

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technological revolution which brings many advantages to its users. However, IoT devices and sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have limited resources, such as energy, memory, computational speed, and communication bandwidth. Thus, better utilization of energy is necessary to avoid problems like high energy consumption and low network lifetime. This paper presents the most well-known and current methods for energy efficiency in both WSNs and the expandable IoT. In addition, a novel low-energy approach for maximizing energy efficiency in IoT, called Energy Efficient Scheme for IoT (EES4IoT), is proposed. This scheme merges efficiently two other schemes for energy efficiency, network lifetime enhancement, maintenance cost reduction and shortest path finding for data transmission. The new proposed scheme demonstrates energy savings in the sensor nodes and extending lifetime of WSNs.