Design of modular wireless sensor
This work addresses the problem of designing modular wireless sensors for engineers, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing HMMD methods without introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackles the design of modular wireless sensors by proposing a hierarchical combinatorial approach that involves multicriteria ranking, composition using HMMD, and aggregation, with a numerical example for an alarm sensor element.
The paper addresses combinatorial approach to design of modular wireless sensor as composition of the sensor element from its component alternatives and aggregation of the obtained solutions into a resultant aggregated solution. A hierarchical model is used for the wireless sensor element. The solving process consists of three stages: (i) multicriteria ranking of design alternatives for system components/parts, (ii) composing the selected design alternatives into composite solution(s) while taking into account ordinal quality of the design alternatives above and their compatibility (this stage is based on Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design - HMMD), and (iii) aggregation of the obtained composite solutions into a resultant aggregated solution(s). A numerical example describes the problem structuring and solving processes for modular alarm wireless sensor element.