Due to various challenges existing in observing remote places, many researchers are attracted towards Wireless sensor networks. It helps in collecting the data, such as temperature, moisture, and so on. Sensor networks involve effective methods and practices to accomplish the constraints like energy consumption and structured system performance. The network life span is of major concern in wireless networks which can be prolonged significantly by considering the conservation of nodes energy. The research work focuses on DEC (Deterministic Energy-efficient Clustering) protocol i.e. enhancing DEC protocol with multi hop mechanism to utilize energy more effectually. To improve scalability and network lifetime of a sensor network, clustering techniques play an important role. In this paper, a multi hop cluster based routing protocol which is more energy efficient than single hop protocol has been taken in consideration. To achieve the higher degree in the lifetime of the nodes, the residual energy of the nodes for multi hop node choice is taken into attention. The simulation results prove that the protocol offer a better performance characteristics than single hop clustering routing protocols in favour of system lifetime and energy by improving the stability period of the network. To optimize the communication in the network, implementation of multi hop communication proved to be efficient mechanism rather than direct communication in cluster field.