Apparatus and method of sensor deployment

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program that when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a method of deploying sensors by a robot in a geographical region, the method comprising:

• receiving from a server, a first instruction including information corresponding to the geographical region, the information including at least a plurality of boundary locations of the geographical region and a first coordinate of the geographical region corresponding to a starting location for sensor deployment;
• receiving from the server, a second instruction indicating one of a first manner and a second manner of deploying sensors in the geographical region;
• computing based on the second instruction, a path to traverse the geographical region in a plurality of steps, each step of the plurality of steps having a predetermined magnitude, the traversing being performed until one of a first stopping criteria corresponding to the first manner of deploying sensors and a second stopping criteria corresponding to the second manner of deploying sensors being satisfied;
• deploying sensors in the geographical region at each traversed step size;
• receiving from each deployed sensor, information indicating absence of sensors in a neighboring area of the deployed sensor;
• and
• repeating the traversing and deploying of sensors in the neighboring area based on the received information.

A sensor deploying device comprising:

• circuitry configured to:
• receive from a server, a first instruction including information corresponding to the geographical region, the information including at least a plurality of boundary locations of the geographical region and a first coordinate of the geographical region corresponding to a starting location for sensor deployment,
• receive from the server, a second instruction indicating one of a first manner and a second manner of deploying sensors in the geographical region,
• compute, based on the second instruction, a path to traverse the geographical region in a plurality of steps, each step of the plurality of steps having a predetermined magnitude, the traversing being performed until one of a first stopping criteria corresponding to the first manner of deploying sensors and a second stopping criteria corresponding to the second manner of deploying sensors being satisfied,
• deploy sensors in the geographical region at each traversed step size,
• receive from each deployed sensor, information indicating absence of sensors in a neighboring area of the deployed sensor, and
• repeat the traversing and deploying of sensors in the neighboring area based on the received information.