Design of a Robot-Sensor Network Security Architecture for Monitoring Applications

This paper presents the design and initial experimentation of a novel robot-sensor network security architecture that exploits the synergies between robots and sensor networks to provide high security level with moderate resource consumption. The robot implements security functionalities that in traditional schemes are assumed by the sensor nodes and the Base Station. In contrast to traditional sensor network security schemes, it is not sensor nodes but the robot who discovers other sensor nodes and establishes the network topology, involving important security advantages. This paper presents the design of the architecture, its main advantages and shows its validity in initial field experiments.