Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing
This paper details the physical and hardware design of a flexible open-source IoT (Internet of Things) platform for environmental sensing. The application is a remote water quality monitoring buoy that can be deployed in calm, shallow near-shore aquatic environments with fresh or brackish water. The...
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| description | This paper details the physical and hardware design of a flexible open-source IoT (Internet of Things) platform for environmental sensing. The application is a remote water quality monitoring buoy that can be deployed in calm, shallow near-shore aquatic environments with fresh or brackish water. The system’s development has been informed by experience through conducting multiple actual water quality studies over a prolonged period. The system runs an Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller using off-the-shelf Adafruit lux and temperature sensors. A light attenuation turbidity sensor is adapted and integrated into the design. A TinySine 3G GSM module transmits data to a server that is displayed via a ThingsBoard IoT dashboard. The system is stable over time, provides reliable remote sensor readings, has low energy consumption, and is powered by renewable energy (up-cycled batteries). The hardware aspires to be general-purpose so that future environmental monitoring applications can repurpose the electronics by adding new compatible sensors and modifying the physical design to match the requirements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f866c85e52974b5c80ae6db775d253222022-12-22T02:58:47ZengElsevierHardwareX2468-06722022-10-0112e00336Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensingJarrod Trevathan0Simon Schmidtke1Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland Australia; Corresponding author.Substation33, Logan, Queensland, AustraliaThis paper details the physical and hardware design of a flexible open-source IoT (Internet of Things) platform for environmental sensing. The application is a remote water quality monitoring buoy that can be deployed in calm, shallow near-shore aquatic environments with fresh or brackish water. The system’s development has been informed by experience through conducting multiple actual water quality studies over a prolonged period. The system runs an Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller using off-the-shelf Adafruit lux and temperature sensors. A light attenuation turbidity sensor is adapted and integrated into the design. A TinySine 3G GSM module transmits data to a server that is displayed via a ThingsBoard IoT dashboard. The system is stable over time, provides reliable remote sensor readings, has low energy consumption, and is powered by renewable energy (up-cycled batteries). The hardware aspires to be general-purpose so that future environmental monitoring applications can repurpose the electronics by adding new compatible sensors and modifying the physical design to match the requirements.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000815Remote environmental monitoringArduino microcontrollerI2C sensors3D printingLuxTemperature |
| spellingShingle | Jarrod Trevathan Simon Schmidtke Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing HardwareX Remote environmental monitoring Arduino microcontroller I2C sensors 3D printing Lux Temperature |
| title | Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| title_full | Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| title_fullStr | Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| title_short | Open-source Internet of Things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| title_sort | open source internet of things remote aquatic environmental sensing |
| topic | Remote environmental monitoring Arduino microcontroller I2C sensors 3D printing Lux Temperature |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000815 |
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