CPWS: An efficient routing protocol for RGB sensor-based fish pond monitoring system

This paper proposes a simple Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based water level and water quality monitoring system for fish ponds. The proposed architecture uses RGB color sensors and provides a low cost and real-time monitoring system to grow healthy fish and avoid anomalies such as overflow or low water level and the death or disease of fishes for unhealthy water (e.g., rise of acid level due to the change of pH and lack of oxygen in water) in a pond. In this simple monitoring system, sensors monitor the water level, dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH level of the water of the fish ponds at some predefined sensing interval. We also introduce a simple but efficient Clustering Protocol for Water Sensor network (CPWS) for the proposed fish pond monitoring framework in terms of network energy consumptions, network lifetime and number of data communications.