Background. The IoT technology covers devices and appliances, such as thermostats, home security systems and cameras, lighting fixtures as well as other household appliances that support one or more shared ecosystems, and can be controlled by devices associated with that ecosystem, for example with smartphones and smart speakers. However, there are a lot of problems to be solved. One of these problems is the power supply of wireless sensors on the Internet of Things.
Objective. The purpose of the study is to reduce energy consumption of IoT devices in the process of transmitting the collected data by regulating the number of transmission transactions.
Methods. The analysis of the existing energy saving methods in IoT devices shows that the problem of choosing the optimal buffer size has not yet been solved. An optimization problem has been formulated, which allows considering the requirements for the quality of transmission of both information flows and communication systems that provide this transfer.
Results. The article presents the modified method of information transmission to improve the energy efficiency of the network. The need to allocate a queue buffer at each of the nodes and explain the operation of the node using the queue buffer has been highlighted. The scheme of the project with the use of the modified Sleep / Wake algorithm has been created.
Conclusions. The main idea of the method is to allocate a buffer at each node with a certain threshold value, and if the latter is exceeded, the transmission of information packets will begin. This increases the service life of WSN by 14.8… 20.6% compared to the IoT sensor networks that use an asynchronous queue cycle.
Keywords: IoT; energy efficiency; life expectancy of the IoT network.