Effective autism spectrum disorder sensory and behavior data collection using internet of things

Abstract

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) connected with wearable internet of things (WIoT) offer useful features including sensory information collection, analysis, and transmission for continuous behavior monitoring of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) patients. Due to users’ mobility and time-driven sensed data, data collection becomes very difficult. The current approach employs cluster-based multi-objective path-optimized data collection mechanisms that have experienced hotspot issues leading to loss of energy and coverage problems near the base stations. This work presents the high energy and reliable sensory and behavior data collection (HERSBDC) mechanism to address the research difficulties. To ensure network coverage, the HERSBDC initially provides a new uneven clustering mechanism. Next, multi-objective-based cluster head (CH) selection metrics are proposed. The final step is the creation of a multi-objective routing path to gather vital ASD data more reliably and energy-efficiently. Comparing the proposed HERSBDC algorithm to the low energy adaptive cluster-hierarchy (LEACH)-based, and distributed energy-efficient clustering and routing (DECR) methods, the simulation results demonstrate that the HERSBDC mechanism achieves a much better lifetime by 62.28% and 11.89%, the delivery ratio by 15.04% and 9.51%, with minimal delay by 52.65%, and 9.65%, and routing overhead by 32.05%, and 42.65%, respectively.