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Abstract
Wireless sensor networks can be used in wind farm monitoring where periodic data collection about the sound
generated inside the farm as well as detection and monitoring of faulty wind turbines is necessary. Periodic sound
data collection requires reliability while faults detection necessitates timeliness. Simultaneous data gathering and
faults monitoring was not well studied in literature. This paper proposed a system model that worked on
homogeneous data gathering Wireless sensor networks deployed in wind farms. When a wind turbine became faulty,
a cluster with a different transmission channel around that wind turbine was formed and both periodic sound data
gathering and faults monitoring were performed at the same time. The proposed model had a novel routing strategy
with a built-in congestion control technique to provide timely delivery of faults data. Experimental results show that the
proposed method performed better than known similar techniques in terms of reliable data gathering and reliable
timely faults monitoring. Due to lower number of high power transmissions, the proposed method had 8% to 17%
higher success rate of regular system and 94% of accuracy at the fault monitoring. In terms of timely faults detection
and notification, this method had a comparative performance to the existing methods.