Short paper: MPOT: 3D Mote Placement Optimization algorithms for WSNs

This With the advances of hardware technology, WSNs have been utilized in many critical application. Some of these applications are battle field monitoring, health care monitoring, structure health monitoring, and many other applications. However, there are some other applications that require Three Dimension (3D) deployment such as smart home, smart classroom, and/or even smart city or smart University. Few researchers have studied such applications and one of their problems is the 3D deployment. Most of them use a deterministic deployment method and build all of the network measurements and consideration based on such deployment. In addition, there is a lack of 3D simulators that handles such deployment including the 3D environment, 3D channel models, and 3D optimization objectives. This paper briefly introduces a 3D Mote Placement Optimization tool (MPOT) and introduces one out of four deployment algorithms that already implemented and tested in addition to the Random Deployment algorithm. This work is part of Web of Object project sponsored by ITEA 2 (UK) and ITIDA (Egypt).