Wireless Sensor Networks Lab


Sensors are becoming the essential part of our lives. From smart homes to sophisticated robotized industry, sensors are the integral part of it. The 4th Industrial Revolution focuses on the use of sensors networks to achieve, agility, reliability and automation. Wireless sensor networks are self-configured and infrastructure less networks. These are deployed in the targeted area to monitor habitat data. Applications of WSNs exists in a number of sectors such as healthcare, retail, transportation, manufacturing, science and technology, agriculture, energy, construction, energy, military and education. Sensing the emerging trends of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology, NIE has established WSN laboratory. The main focus of the WSN lab is to develop the applications of this technology for common man and business. The Lab has cutting edge wireless sensor network R&D kits for conducting research in different applications domain.

Objectives
  • To establish state of the art experimentation setup which supports WSN applications development and a research platform for academia, public and private sector
  • WSN Technology development
  • Provide support to public & private sector in terms of consultation, training and applications development





Wireless Sensor Networks Lab


Ongoing Projects

Smart Car Parking Management System (SPMS).

Today’s increasing trend in vehicles and buildings make it difficult to get parking space in down town, mega shopping malls and airports. To facilitate the shopping mall owners and vehicle drivers, SPMS is the need of the day. In view of this vision, we have developed a SPMS for multi-story large parking lots of mega shopping malls and airports, etc. Following are the main features of SPMS.

For Drivers/Users
  • Smart navigation for the car driver to find the nearest available space in less time.
  • Easy to reserve parking in advance from home/office.
  • Easy to locate the parked vehicle if lost in mind during shopping.
  • Vehicle monitoring remotely during shopping.
  • Less botheration for drivers to locate empty parking space during rush hours.
For Business Centers
  • Continuous awareness about state of parking lot
  • Easy to locate/contact the driver/users for management
  • Easy to implement customized tariffs for nearest and far parking lots
  • Easy to reserve parking lots for special guests etc.
  • Can be easily integrated with existing parking toll systems








Wireless Sensor Networks Lab


Journal Publications
  • Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Imdad Ullah, Zeeshan Kaleem, Zafar Abbas, and Long D. Nguyen. "DIEER: Delay-Intolerant Energy-Efficient Routing with Sink Mobility in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks." Sensors 20, no. 12 (2020): 3467.
  • Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Nabil Alrajeh, and Majid Iqbal Khan. "On energy hole and coverage hole avoidance in underwater wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal 16, no. 11 (2016): 4431-4442.
  • Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Malik Najmus Saqib, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Nabil Alrajeh. "Energy consumption model for density controlled divide-and-rule scheme for energy efficient routing in wireless sensor networks." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 21, no. 2 (2016): 130-139.
  • Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Malik Najmus Saqib, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Basharat Mahmood, and Manzoor Ilahi. "Energy hole minimization with field division for energy efficient routing in WSNs." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 11, no. 10 (2015): 953134.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Ayesha Bibi, Akmal Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, K. Latif, and M. Ishfaq. "Investigating quality routing link metrics in wireless multi-hop networks." annals of telecommunications-annales des télécommunications 69, no. 3-4 (2014): 209-217.

Conference Proceedings
  • Yahaya, Adamu Sani, Nadeem Javaid, Kamran Latif, and Amjad Rehman. "An Enhanced Very Short-Term Load Forecasting Scheme Based on Activation Function." In 2019 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Ayesha Anjum Butt, Kamran Latif, and Amjad Rehman. "Cloud and Fog based Integrated Environment for Load Balancing using Cuckoo Levy Distribution and Flower Pollination for Smart Homes." In 2019 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
  • Latif, K., Nadeem Javaid, Adeel Iqbal, Zahoor Ali Khan, U. Qasim, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "Energy Hole Analysis for Energy Efficient Routing in BANs." In 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, pp. 920-924. IEEE, 2014.
  • Mahmood, Danish, K. Latif, Nadeem Javaid, S. U. Qureshi, Imran Ahmed, U. Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Investigating Impact of ACK in Non-Beacon Enabled Slotted IEEE 802.15. 4." In 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, pp. 429-434. IEEE, 2014.
  • Jafri, Mohsin Raza, Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Kamran Latif, Zahoor Ali Khan, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, and Nadeem Javaid. "Towards delay-sensitive routing in underwater wireless sensor networks." Procedia Computer Science 37 (2014): 228-235.
  • Latif, Kamran, Malik Najmus Saqib, Safdar H. Bouk, and Nadeem Javaid. "Energy hole minimization technique for energy efficient routing in under water sensor networks." In International Multi Topic Conference, pp. 134-148. Springer, Cham, 2013.
  • Latif, K., Ashfaq Ahmad, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, and N. Alrajeh. "Divide-and-rule scheme for energy efficient routing in wireless sensor networks." The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Procedia Computer Science, vol. 19, 2013, pp: 340-347, ISSN 1877-0509, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.047. ANT 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Ahmad, Ashfaq, K. Latif, N. Javaidl, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Umar Qasim. "Density controlled divide-and-rule scheme for energy efficient routing in Wireless Sensor Networks." In 2013 26th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Muhammad Waseem, Zahoor Ali Khan, U. Qasim, K. Latif, and Akmal Javaid. "ACH: Away cluster heads scheme for energy efficient clustering protocols in WSNs." In 2013 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Umar Qasim, Zahoor Ali Khan, Mahmood Ashraf Khan, K. Latif, and Akmal Javaid. "On energy efficiency and delay minimization in reactive protocols in Wireless Multi-hop Networks." In 2013 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Zahoor Ali Khan, U. Qasim, Mahmood Ashraf Khan, K. Latif, and Akmal Javaid. "Towards LP modeling for maximizing throughput and minimizing routing delay in proactive protocols in Wireless Multi-hop Networks." In 2013 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  • Javaid, Nadeem, Saad Noor Mohammad, K. Latif, U. Qasim, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Mahmood Ashraf Khan. "HEER: Hybrid energy efficient reactive protocol for wireless sensor networks." In 2013 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  • K. Latif, Khalid, M. Jaffar, Nadeem Javaid, M. N. Saqib, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Performance analysis of hierarchical routing protocols in wireless sensor networks." In 2012 Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, pp. 620-625. IEEE, 2012.
  • Latif, Kamran, M. Abdul Basit Ur Rahim, Abdul Rauf, and Aamer Nadeem. "Evaluation of UML-real time profiles for Industrial Control Systems." In 2010 International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2010.
  • Latif, Kamran, Aamer Nadeem, and Gang-soo Lee. "A UML Profile for Real Time Industrial Control Systems." In International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications, pp. 97-107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

Training in Wireless Sensor Networks Lab

  • Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks for application developments.
  • Tools and techniques in WSN projects developments.
  • WSN development kits.
  • Hands on exercise on programming WSN Motes.





Wireless Sensor Networks Lab


Contact Us

Postal Address:
Wireless Sensor Networks Lab, National Institute of Electronics, Plot # 17, Street # 6, H-9/1, Islamabad

Exchange No: (+92)-51-9265023
Email: kamranlatif@nie.gov.pk; klatif0077@gmail.com


R &D Team
Wireless Sensor Networks Lab



Dr. Kamran Latif
Designation: Principal Research Officer

Qualifications:
  • PhD in Computer Sciences(Research domain: Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • MS Software Engineering (Research domain: UML Profile design for Embedded Control Systems)
  • MSc Computer Science
Experience:
Project History at NIE (Since 1996):
  • Project management
  • Embedded software development
  • Software testing
  1. Customized Embedded System based Firing Control System
  2. Large Scale Electronic Display
  3. Electronic Voting Machine
  4. Payroll Management System
  5. Smart Parking Management System
Research Publications
Journal Conference Total Impact Factor
5 15 9.759
Google Scholar Publication profile can be viewed at this link https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DyKERX8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Mr. Zafar Abbas Malik
Designation: Research Officer

Qualification: M.S Electrical Engineering (NUST), Islamabad
Training: Seminar on Modern IT for Pakistan from China.
Expertise:ContikiOS & TinyOS programming on motes.