Research Article

A Novel Data Collection Method with Recharge Plan for Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Time taken to fully charge 200 sensors of each layer of relay sensors in the RWSN by using my proposed recharge plan with WT8800 PTU and RB30-RX PRU.

Class of sensorsTime taken to charge all the sensors (hours)Time taken to travel the charge path (hoursTotal time taken (hours)

Layer-1 relay sensors (7 sensors)0.930.401.33
Layer-2 relay sensors (42 sensors)5.601.396.99

speed of ChargerCar is 30 m/min.