There are a number of idle nodes in sensor networks, these can act as detector nodes for anomaly detection in the network. For detecting node selection problem modeled as optimization equation, the conventional method using centralized genetic algorithm was evaluated. In this paper, a method to improve the convergence of the optimal value, while improving energy efficiency as a method of considering the characteristics of the network topology using parallel genetic algorithm is proposed. Through simulation, the proposed method compared with the conventional approaches to the convergence of the optimal value was improved and was found to be energy efficient.