Abstract:
With increasing advancement and popularity of wireless sensor networks, their applications in
different areas are becoming more and more sophisticated. As wireless sensor networks and its
components are distributed in nature, easy to configure, flexible to deploy and less costly, they are
considered feasible to collect, process and store data from different terrains. Amongst multiple
applications of wireless sensor networks, tracking a particular object is one of the most important
ones. While tracking an object, its geographical location is determined and then constantly
monitored. Every sensor in the wireless sensor network participates in sensing the position of the
object being tracked, and shares this information with other components of the network. In recent
years much work has been done regarding target tracking in wireless sensor networks and many
algorithms have been proposed to perform the task most efficiently and optimally. In this thesis a
simple approach is used to track a target which significantly improves the accuracy and other
network performance parameters by minimizing the communication overhead.
