Target tracking using Interactive Multiple Model for Wireless Sensor Network

•Identify the location and estimate the position.•Tracking the target based on estimation.•Applied for detecting intruders.

Target tracking in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment is a challenging research problem. Interactive Multiple Model (IMM) is a popular scheme for accurate target tracking. The existing target tracking scheme used in WSN employs Kalman Filter (KF) which fails to track the target accurately due to non availability of target data at regular intervals and missing of packets. Though existing KF based tracking in WSN scheme detects the target, it fails to identify the target. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes a IMM based Target Tracking in WSN named ITTWSN that uses multiple models (velocity and acceleration) to handle both maneuvering and non maneuvering targets and multiple sensors to detect and identify the targets. The performance of the proposed ITTWSN is compared with the KF scheme and it is found that the accuracy of the proposed ITTWSN is better than the existing KF based approach.