Nowadays, the recent developments in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have initiated new applications of WSNs which can be used in many fields, such as military, environment, health, home and industry. One of the emerged wireless sensor networks topologies are linear wireless sensor networks (LWSNs). They have been rising as a great focus area of research. Such wireless sensor networks have a large number of applications such as border monitoring, railway track monitoring, structural health monitoring of bridges, health care and machines surveillance. LWSNs are widely applied in oil and gas pipelines infrastructure monitoring applications to enable the automatic measurement, analyses, storage and transmission of real-time data. Minimization of energy consumption of LWSNs is crucial for their proper usage. Using two different system models, this research investigates the minimization of LWSNs energy consumption using optimal node placement strategies compared to simple equal-distance placement scheme.

如今，无线传感器网络（WSN）领域中的最新发展已启动了WSN的新应用，可用于许多领域，例如军事，环境，健康，家庭和工业。出现的无线传感器网络拓扑之一是线性无线传感器网络（LWSN）。它们一直是研究的重点领域。这种无线传感器网络具有大量应用，例如边界监视，铁路轨道监视，桥梁结构健康监视，医疗保健和机器监视。LWSN被广泛应用于石油和天然气管道基础设施监控应用中，以实现自动测量，分析，存储和传输实时数据。LWSN的能耗最小化对于它们的正确使用至关重要。