A Survey on Continuous Object Tracking and Boundary Detection Schemes in IoT Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks

With the new age of data innovation, the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferation has drawn enormous thought and has applied to help applications in different fields i.e., natural assurance, military observing, and industrial applications. WSNs are the essential segment of IoT for monitoring as well as tracking. The most preeminent applications provide confinement and identification of continuous objects i.e. wildfire, toxic gas, bio synthetics concoctions, and so forth. In the case of continuous objects such as fire and toxic gases are detected to identify the boundary of damage and alert teams for rescue efforts. It is also helpful in identifying safe paths for rescue. We have investigated various existing surveys that carried out different concepts associated with continuous object tracking and find out the deficit of boundary detection of object. In order to replete the present cleft of analysis, we have inspected various current state-of-the-art works on boundary detection of a continuous object that has yet not been added to the current writing. This paper presents an extensive overview of different continuous object tracking schemes which involve energy efficiency, boundary detection, communication, data aggregation, and network structural design in literature with the aid of featuring taxonomy. We summarized, compared, and classified these schemes along with their analysis and performance. Moreover, for further evaluation mechanism, strengths and weaknesses of these schemes are presented. Finally, various state-of-the-art open research challenges are identified. Moreover, there is a need to overcome these challenges through novel and reliable arrangements by the researchers.

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With the rise of data innovation, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely applied in environmental protection, military monitoring, and industrial applications. Wireless sensor networks play a vital role in monitoring and tracking, particularly in the identification and confinement of continuous objects. However, there are deficits in boundary detection of continuous objects like fire and toxic gases, which requires further research and solutions.