Sensor nodes are tiny low-cost devices, prone to various faults. So, it is imperative to detect those faults. This paper presents a sensor measurement fault detection algorithm based on Pearson's correlation coefficient and the Support Vector Machine(SVM) algorithm. As environmental phenomena are spatially and temporally correlated but faults are somewhat uncorrelated, Pearson's correlation coefficient is used to measure correlation. Then we used SVM to classify faulty readings from normal reading. After classification, faulty readings are discarded. We used network simulator NS-2.35 and Matlab for evaluation of our proposed method. We evaluated our fault detection algorithm using performance metrics, namely, Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity, Specificity, Recall, F1 Score, Geometric Mean(G_mean), Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC), and Area Under Curve(AUC).
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.