An Intelligent Fault Tolerant Data Routing Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network-Assisted Industrial Internet of Things

Safety is a major concern for Industrial 4.0 where different physical parameters are monitored for avoiding uncertain events in the industry. In industries, natural calamities like fire and leakage of harmful gases can cause huge damage to life and property. An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is used to monitor such natural calamities and take timely prompt actions. However, sensors in the IIoT are vulnerable to failures due to energy depletion and hardware malfunctioning. It significantly reduces the reliability of the network. This article proposes an intelligent fault-tolerant scheme where different faults within the wireless sensor network-assisted IIoT such as node fault and link fault are detected and tolerated in a timely manner. It significantly improves the reliability of the network. Extensive simulations show the out-performance of the proposed scheme in terms of average packet delivery, energy consumption, throughput, network lifetime, communication delay, and recovery speed.