Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications involve real-time monitoring, detection, and data analysis. However, the intermittent activity of IIoT devices and limited battery capacity pose critical challenges. This paper addresses these interconnected issues, focusing on extending the battery...

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Main Authors: David E. Ruiz-Guirola, Onel L. A. Lopez, Samuel Montejo-Sanchez
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications involve real-time monitoring, detection, and data analysis. However, the intermittent activity of IIoT devices and limited battery capacity pose critical challenges. This paper addresses these interconnected issues, focusing on extending the battery life of IIoT devices sensing events/alarms by minimizing the number of unnecessary transmissions. We propose a threshold-based transmission-decision policy based on the sensing quality and the network spatial deployment. We optimize the transmission thresholds using several approaches such as successive convex approximation, block coordinate descent methods, Voronoi diagrams, explainable machine learning, algorithms based on natural selection and social behavior, and Q-learning. Through numerical evaluation, we demonstrate significant performance enhancements in low-power IIoT environments, with Q-learning performing the best, while the block coordinate descending method performs the worst. We compare the proposed methods to a benchmark that assigns the same transmission threshold to all devices. In low-density scenarios, all proposed methods outperform the benchmark, while in high-density scenarios, only Voronoi-(i), K-nearest neighbors, and Q-learning show better performance. Power consumption is reduced by up to 95% in low-density scenarios compared to the benchmark and by 63% in high-density scenarios.
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spelling doaj-art-3e042c5279ba4ceda918fbe60294c95f2025-08-20T03:28:44ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society2644-125X2025-01-0165490550810.1109/OJCOMS.2025.358386711054051Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event ReportingDavid E. Ruiz-Guirola0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2096-8890Onel L. A. Lopez1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1838-5183Samuel Montejo-Sanchez2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1622-3180Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandInstituto Universitario de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, ChileIndustrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications involve real-time monitoring, detection, and data analysis. However, the intermittent activity of IIoT devices and limited battery capacity pose critical challenges. This paper addresses these interconnected issues, focusing on extending the battery life of IIoT devices sensing events/alarms by minimizing the number of unnecessary transmissions. We propose a threshold-based transmission-decision policy based on the sensing quality and the network spatial deployment. We optimize the transmission thresholds using several approaches such as successive convex approximation, block coordinate descent methods, Voronoi diagrams, explainable machine learning, algorithms based on natural selection and social behavior, and Q-learning. Through numerical evaluation, we demonstrate significant performance enhancements in low-power IIoT environments, with Q-learning performing the best, while the block coordinate descending method performs the worst. We compare the proposed methods to a benchmark that assigns the same transmission threshold to all devices. In low-density scenarios, all proposed methods outperform the benchmark, while in high-density scenarios, only Voronoi-(i), K-nearest neighbors, and Q-learning show better performance. Power consumption is reduced by up to 95% in low-density scenarios compared to the benchmark and by 63% in high-density scenarios.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11054051/Alarm scenarioindustrial Internet of Thingsmachine learningspatial correlationtransmission threshold
spellingShingle David E. Ruiz-Guirola
Onel L. A. Lopez
Samuel Montejo-Sanchez
Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
Alarm scenario
industrial Internet of Things
machine learning
spatial correlation
transmission threshold
title Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
title_full Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
title_fullStr Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
title_full_unstemmed Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
title_short Configuring Transmission Thresholds in IIoT Alarm Scenarios for Energy-Efficient Event Reporting
title_sort configuring transmission thresholds in iiot alarm scenarios for energy efficient event reporting
topic Alarm scenario
industrial Internet of Things
machine learning
spatial correlation
transmission threshold
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11054051/
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