Title :
Water monitoring system using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN): Case study of Kuwait beaches
Author :
Alkandari, Abdulrahman ; Alnasheet, Meshal ; Alabduljader, Yousef ; Moein, Samer M.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng., Kuwait Univ., Kuwait City, Kuwait
Abstract :
Firstly it is needed to realize Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN); we can define it as the most important technologies in the new century. during the last decades there was many achievements especially in the field of micro sensor technology and the low power electronics have made WSNs and the reality of applications, WSNs enabled a great amount of the surveillance and supervision applications, especially for the hostile and the critical environments, such as the process of monitoring the sea. We are presented software and hardware platforms of the augmented sensor networks which should be connected in a temporal way to the back-end infrastructures to store the data storage and the interaction of the users, and it make a special use for the actuators or the devices which are considered a rich and special computing resource to manage a complex signal processing tasks. In our proposed solution, we attempt to deploy the sensors of the network which is used on the sea surface shall monitor the water characteristics such as temperature, PH, dissolved oxygen, etc., and provide various convenient services for end users who can manage the data via a website with spreadsheet from a long distance or applications in a console terminal. This project introduces the architecture of a WSN system, the hardware of the node, data acquisition, data processing with gateway, and data visualization. The schemes which are considered traditional one depend on the intensive work of the labor and the expensive hardware. We presented better solutions with special sensors to measure the characteristics of the water in Kuwait.
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; geophysics computing; microsensors; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; radiotelemetry; remote sensing; water quality; wireless sensor networks; Kuwait beaches; WSN system architecture; augmented sensor networks; back-end infrastructures; complex signal processing tasks; data storage; hardware platform; low power electronics; micro sensor technology; sea surface; software platform; special computing resource; supervision application; surveillance application; user interaction; water monitoring system; wireless sensor network; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Real time systems; Sea measurements; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; wireless sensor network (WSN);
Conference_Titel :
Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), 2012 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Klaipeda City
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1106-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDIPC.2012.6257270