Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring
Water is a major preoccupation for our generation since it is crucial in keeping a healthy ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. The state of aquatic systems and water bodies needs to be continuously monitored to make informed decisions and trigger sanitation when necessary. However, observing and...
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| author | Quentin Quevy Mimoun Lamrini Mohamed Chkouri Gianluca Cornetta Abdellah Touhafi Alexandre Campo |
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| description | Water is a major preoccupation for our generation since it is crucial in keeping a healthy ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. The state of aquatic systems and water bodies needs to be continuously monitored to make informed decisions and trigger sanitation when necessary. However, observing and tracking the evolution of many water bodies without disturbing and polluting the biotopes is expensive, not scalable, and thus, infeasible. This article presents a way to make sustainable measurements using a new low-cost, open-source, and autonomous monitoring system deployable in a broad network. The smart buoy is deployed and controlled by a central unit that uses lab-graded sensors to measure ambient factors. The custom electronic board offers sustainable electronics integration emphasizing power path and network connectivity. The smart buoy showed an average power consumption of 1.8 mA and a cost of 932 euros per device. Currently, five spots have been monitored, which allowed the understanding of why biological events, such as a massive fish death, occurred. The system is easily expandable and can be used in various applications to increase the knowledge of the underwater ecosystem. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-175abf3f0a1842379c861cdb7db07b442024-01-30T00:07:18ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society2644-12842023-01-014274110.1109/OJIES.2022.323391910005790Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality MonitoringQuentin Quevy0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5121Mimoun Lamrini1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-7255Mohamed Chkouri2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-329XGianluca Cornetta3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8614-079XAbdellah Touhafi4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8891-180XAlexandre Campo5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-4790Department of Engineering Technology, INDI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Engineering Technology, INDI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumSIGL Laboratory, ENSATE, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, MoroccoDepartment of Information Engineering, San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid, SpainDepartment of Engineering Technology, INDI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumBiological & Artificial Self-Organized Systems Team, Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BelgiumWater is a major preoccupation for our generation since it is crucial in keeping a healthy ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. The state of aquatic systems and water bodies needs to be continuously monitored to make informed decisions and trigger sanitation when necessary. However, observing and tracking the evolution of many water bodies without disturbing and polluting the biotopes is expensive, not scalable, and thus, infeasible. This article presents a way to make sustainable measurements using a new low-cost, open-source, and autonomous monitoring system deployable in a broad network. The smart buoy is deployed and controlled by a central unit that uses lab-graded sensors to measure ambient factors. The custom electronic board offers sustainable electronics integration emphasizing power path and network connectivity. The smart buoy showed an average power consumption of 1.8 mA and a cost of 932 euros per device. Currently, five spots have been monitored, which allowed the understanding of why biological events, such as a massive fish death, occurred. The system is easily expandable and can be used in various applications to increase the knowledge of the underwater ecosystem.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10005790/Sustainable electronicsremote water-quality sensingenvironmental monitoringsensor network |
| spellingShingle | Quentin Quevy Mimoun Lamrini Mohamed Chkouri Gianluca Cornetta Abdellah Touhafi Alexandre Campo Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society Sustainable electronics remote water-quality sensing environmental monitoring sensor network |
| title | Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring |
| title_full | Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring |
| title_fullStr | Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring |
| title_short | Open Sensing System for Long Term, Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring |
| title_sort | open sensing system for long term low cost water quality monitoring |
| topic | Sustainable electronics remote water-quality sensing environmental monitoring sensor network |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10005790/ |
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