Evaluating the technical barriers of large scale sustainable wireless sensor network: A resources approach

Increasing environmental concern with societal value results in the new strategy like sustainability, in various fields of applications including operations, management, technology and so along. In the row, in recent years, the integration of sustainability in wireless sensor network hooks the attention of the researchers, which results in the advent of new explorative studies with various outlooks. Nonetheless, still the practitioners facing challenges in the integration of sustainability in Wireless sensor networks (WSN) which has a wide range of day to day applications, particularly in large scale systems, where these challenging issues more common. Hence this paper sought to evaluate the most essential barrier which resisting the sustainable WSN strategy in large scale systems through the assistance of the proposed framework and this framework gets legalized with structural health monitoring application in which the previous studies failed. The most common barriers are collected from the literatures and validated with the practitioners and technical experts, further analyzed with the assistance of the case organization which is considered their structural health monitoring using WSN. The organization players are considered as decision makers and their replies are analyzed through the multi-criteria decision making tool, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process). The results revealed the most essential barrier among the common barriers of sustainable WSN, with these weights, the practitioners can easily address and eradicate the most effective barrier rather than wasting time with less essential barriers of sustainable WSN. Consequently, this study provides both scientific and societal contribution by addressing one of key area in WSN, large scale sustainability.