Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless networking technology has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena (i.e., landslides), etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. This paper provides a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. It also categorizes these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories, namely agricultural monitoring, environmental monitoring, air-water pollution monitoring, monitoring of destruction phenomena, as well as monitoring of livestock, and wild animal, in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. These guides cover various issues, such as sensor node platforms, operating systems (OSs), topologies, installation and maintenance issues, and much more. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, this work considers representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 1332-1374
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless networking technology has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena (i.e., landslides), etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. This paper provides a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. It also categorizes these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories, namely agricultural monitoring, environmental monitoring, air-water pollution monitoring, monitoring of destruction phenomena, as well as monitoring of livestock, and wild animal, in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. These guides cover various issues, such as sensor node platforms, operating systems (OSs), topologies, installation and maintenance issues, and much more. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, this work considers representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2018 ◽  
pp. 196-251
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Scientific Fields

This chapter investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena, etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. In this chapter, the authors provide a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. They also categorize these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, the authors consider representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Testbed Implementation of a Pollution Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Network for the Protection of Public Spaces

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siuli Roy ◽  
Anurag D ◽  
Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Consumption Rates

Air pollution is an important environmental issue that has a direct effect on human health and ecological balance. Factories, power plants, vehicles, windblown dust and wildfires are some of the contributors of to pollution. Reasonable simulation tools exist for evaluating large scale sensor networks, ; however, they fail to capture significant details of node operation or practical aspects of wireless communication. Real life testbeds, capture the realism and bring out important aspects for further research. In this paper, we present an implementation of a wireless sensor network testbed for automatic and real-time monitoring of environmental pollution for the protection of public spaces. The paper describes the physical setup, the sensor node hardware and software architecture for “anytime, anywhere” monitoring and management of pollution data through a single, Web-based graphical user interface. The paper presents practical issues in the integration of sensors, actual power consumption rates and develops a practical hierarchical routing methodology.

scholarly journals LON Technology in Wireless Sensor Networking Applications

Sensors ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Miskowicz ◽  
Ryszard Golanski
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking
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