Effects of Sensor Properties on Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Network

Building a wireless sensor network first of all requires the constituting nodes to be developed and available. These nodes have to met the requirements that come from the specific requirements of a given application. They might be small, cheap (energy efficient), they have to be equipped with the right sensors, the necessary computation and memory resources, and they need adequate communication facilities, joining them into wireless sensor network. Event mobility is one of the mobility types in the wireless sensor network. In this paper a study of the sensor properties which have direct effect on the power of the sensor node itself and the total power of the network. Sensor Radius, Sensor Period and Sensor Energy Cost are important properties related to the sensor, these properties have different effects on the power consumption in the network. These properties also have the effect on the number of packets received by the observer in the network.