IoT Underwater Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring

Water is a crucial resource for all life on earth, and it is fast becoming one of the limited natural resources to humankind, especially clean drinking water and water for agricultural uses. Sensor technologies and wireless communications (both terrestrial and underwater) have been seriously investigated by researchers to find ways to integrate these technologies for a novel data-sensing and data-collecting network for long-term water pollution monitoring purposes. This chapter describes an IoT-based underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) which is believed to have a huge potential for monitoring the health of river, lake, reservoir, and marine environment. The sensed data from IoT sensors are communicated wirelessly via acoustic channels to a data collection center for further processing and interpretation. It is foreseeing that judicious deployment of IoT-based UWSN is a promising solution for long-term water quality surveillance.

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