Point-to-Multipoint Ultrasonic Communication Modem for Ubiquitous Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Byeon, Moo-Kwang ; Jeon, Jun-Ho ; Park, Sung-Joon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kangnung Nat. Univ., Kangnung

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

685

Lastpage

688

Abstract

Recently, researches on underwater sensor networks (USN) for ocean development and disaster prevention have been emerged as one of interesting topics. Since low-power, high-speed and inexpensive communication modem is a prerequisite for deployment of USN, we design and implement an underwater modem by utilizing general-purpose waterproof ultrasonic sensors in this paper. Also, we make an experiment in a water tank containing sensor nodes and a sink node, a gateway, and show that point-to-multipoint communication is possible at a data rate of 1 kbps.

Keywords

disasters; distributed sensors; modems; oceanographic equipment; ultrasonic equipment; underwater acoustic communication; USN deployment; bit rate 1 kbit/s; disaster prevention; low-power high-speed communication modem; ocean development; point-to-multipoint ultrasonic communication modem; sensor nodes; sink node; ubiquitous underwater wireless sensor networks; water tank; waterproof ultrasonic sensors; Acoustic sensors; Circuits; Frequency; Modems; Pulse amplifiers; Transmitters; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Underwater acoustics; Underwater communication; Wireless sensor networks; modem; ultrasonic; underwater; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3492-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUC.2008.180

Filename

4755304