Data prediction model in wireless sensor networks based on bidirectional LSTM

The data collected by the wireless sensor nodes often has some spatial or temporal redundancy, and the redundant data impose unnecessary burdens on both the nodes and networks. Data prediction is helpful to improve data quality and reduce the unnecessary data transmission. However, the current data prediction methods of wireless sensor networks seldom consider how to utilize the spatial-temporal correlation among the sensory data. This paper has proposed a new data prediction method multi-node multi-feature (MNMF) based on bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) network. Firstly, the data quality is improved by quartile method and wavelet threshold denoising. Then, the bidirectional LSTM network is used to extract and learn the abstract features of sensory data. Finally, the abstract features are used in the data prediction by adopting the merge layer of the neural network. The experimental results show that the proposed MNMF model has better performance compared with the other methods in many evaluation indicators.