Signal processing by particle filtering for binary sensor networks

In a wireless sensor network, limited power, communication, and computational resources are the major constraints that one has to overcome in their successful deployment and utilization. Binary sensor networks are a class of networks that get around these constraints. There, the sensors transmit only a binary digit on the occurrence of the event of interest, and therefore, the signals that reach the fusion center of these networks are highly compressed and pose challenging problems for recovering the sensed information. In this paper we consider the problem of tracking a vehicle, which moves along a 2-dimensional space, by using a binary sensor network that fuses information by particle filtering.