Environmental Monitoring Systems Using Wireless Sensor Networks: An Overview (original) (raw)

Wireless Sensor Network Applications: A Study in Environment Monitoring System

Development in the technology of sensor such as Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), wireless communications, embedded systems, distributed processing and wireless sensor applications have contributed a large transformation in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) recently. It assists and improves work performance both in the field of industry and our daily life. Wireless Sensor Network has been widely used in many areas especially for surveillance and monitoring in agriculture and habitat monitoring. Environment monitoring has become an important field of control and protection, providing real-time system and control communication with the physical world. An intelligent and smart Wireless Sensor Network system can gather and process a large amount of data from the beginning of the monitoring and manage air quality, the conditions of traffic, to weather situations. In this paper, we discuss and review wireless sensor network applications for environmental monitoring. In order to implement a good monitoring system, there are several requirements to be followed. From the studies, it has been proved to be an alternative way to replace the conventional method that uses men force to monitor the environment. It is also proven that these approaches can improve the system performance, provide a convenient and efficient method and can also fulfill functional requirements.

Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey on Environmental Monitoring

Traditionally, environmental monitoring is achieved by a small number of expensive and high precision sensing unities. Collected data are retrieved directly from the equipment at the end of the experiment and after the unit is recovered. The implementation of a wireless sensor network provides an alternative solution by deploying a larger number of disposable sensor nodes. Nodes are equipped with sensors with less precision, however, the network as a whole provides better spatial resolution of the area and the users can have access to the data immediately. This paper surveys a comprehensive review of the available solutions to support wireless sensor network environmental monitoring applications.

Development of Wireless Sensor Network Technology for Environmental Monitoring

International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Research

This project is concerned with the application of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology to long-duration and large-scale environmental monitoring. The holy grail is a system that can be deployed and operated by domain specialists not engineers, but this remains some distance into the future. We present our views as to why this field has progressed less quickly than many envisaged it would over a decade ago. We use real examples taken from our own work in this field to illustrate the technological difficulties and challenges that are entailed in meeting end-user requirements for information gathering systems. Reliability and productivity are key concerns and influence the design choices for system hardware and software. We conclude with a discussion of long-term challenges for WSN technology in environmental monitoring and outline our vision of the future.

Design and implementation of wireless sensor network for environmental monitoring

International journal of health sciences

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are being developed in the agriculture and weather station sectors to monitor and manage a number of objects. Sensor network hardware platforms are low-power embedded systems featuring a variety of sensors, such as on-board sensors and analogue I/O ports for adding sensors. The design of genuine environmental monitoring and communication systems is greatly aided by the creation of a WSN. A WSN is a collection of sensors that are geographically spread and specialized for monitoring and recording environmental variables and storing the findings in a central location. Limited power consumption as sensor nodes works on batteries, Nodes are mobile opposed to conventional wires, Usage in harsh environment, Nodes can be deployed in any fashion over an area, Easy to use and multi-layer design operation these are the main characteristics of WSN. Limits imposed on the energy storage device by their applications and deployment settings are less relevant to WSN en...

Wireless Sensor Network in Environmental monitoring

Abstract: We propose generic wireless sensor network systems for two types of environmental monitoring needs: 1.Time Critical Applications for Early warning. 2.Non-Time critical for Long-Term data Collection for Trend Analysis. The construction and deployment of the wireless sensor network along with the challenges of the terrain for design of various components of the network application. Both the hardware and software technology considerations are taken care of. The communication protocols are selected as per the requirements of the application. The Sensor data may consist of environmental parameters like temperature, precipitation,Water Flow, Pressure and the dynamic variations of these physical quantities.

Development of environmental monitoring system with wireless sensor networks

Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation., 2011

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is becoming increasingly popular, particularly as applied to a variety of monitoring and tracking applications. Recent developments and advances in both information processing and wireless sensor technologies have provided environmental management systems with capabilities of real-time remote location monitoring. WSN enables monitoring and management of a large set of environmental data including climatic, atmospheric, plant and soil parameters that influence cropland growing environments. Real-time sensor data collection is used for accurate illustrations of current conditions while forecasting future conditions and risks. The real time information from the fields can provide a solid base for farmers to adjust strategies at any time. Instead of making decisions based in some hypothetical average condition, which may not exist anywhere in the reality, a precision farming approach recognizes differences and adjusts management actions accordingly.

Wireless Smart Sensors Networks, systems, trends and its impact in environmental monitoring

2009 Ieee Latin American Conference on Communications, 2009

Wireless Smart Sensor Networks (WSSN) offers a new paradigm regards to the way that the traditional monitoring systems have been designed, all this happens due to the impactgenerating by technology in society. The deployment of Information and Communication Technologies or ICT allow us now rely with small devices that are able to integrate into a "simple element" the potential of computing, communication and monitoring systems and from here starts to move to these minidevices, the ability of intelligence that ensure the deployment of new systems focused in environmental monitoring. In this paper we present a survey of technologies employed to wireless smart sensor networks, their management systems as well as their trends and finally we presents the design and implementation of an application for monitoring environmental variables using the WSSN and virtual instrumentation on Smartphone.

A REVIEW: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING APPLICATIONS USING WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

With a broad research on wireless sensor technology, the sensor network has proven its significance in today's modernizing world. In this paper a wireless sensor network system is proposed with open source hardware and software platform i.e Raspberry pi microcomputer which act as a base station, zigbee and a graphical user interface for user friendly application. This system is highly effective both in terms of number of sensors and the type of the sensors. This system provides low cost and feasible solution in the area of environmental monitoring application. A detail review of how actually this system will work and the expected outcome based on theoretical basis are presented in this paper. Raspberry pi is cheap, small, hackable computer linux board. Comparative analysis shows that the performances with wireless sensor nodes using raspberry pi has more successful usage in sensor network domain and remains inexpensive throughout.

A Survey on Environment Monitoring using Sensor Networks

2020

Environment monitoring is one of the most important application of Robotic Sensor Network (RSN) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Monitoring of various factors is required for different kinds of environments. These networks have a capability of measuring different parameters such as temperature, humidity and air quality. They also process, transmit, analyze and upload the data over the internet for future use and study. It can automate the system be giving commands based on the data measured for any system to get actuated. Monitoring such parameters using sensor networks helps the humans to avoid entering hazardous areas and can help the farmers to measure required parameters on the field from a remote location. A study and comparison of applications of RSN and WSN in different environments is presented in this review paper which can help make the life of such people easy.