Abstract
Water is a natural resource necessary for life that must be taken care of. In coastal areas with near agricultural activity, it is very common to detect spills of chemical products that affect water quality of rivers and beaches. This water usually reaches the sea with bad consequences for nature and, therefore, it is important to detect where possible spills are taking place and water does not have enough quality to be used. This paper presents the development of a LoRa (Long Range) based wireless sensor network to create an observatory of water quality in coastal areas. This network consists of wireless nodes endowed with several sensors that allow measuring physical parameters of water quality, such as turbidity, temperature, etc. The data collected by the sensors will be sent to a gateway that will redirect them to a database. The database creates an observatory that will allow monitoring the environment where the network is deployed in real time. Finally, the developed system will be tested in a real environment for its correct start-up. Two different tests will be performed. The first one will check the correct operation of sensors and network architecture; the second test will check the network coverage of the commercial devices.
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This work has been partially supported by the Universidad de Granada through the “Programa de Proyectos de Investigación Precompetitivos para Jóvenes Investigadores. Modalidad A jóvenes Doctores” of “Plan Propio de Investigación y Transferencia 2019” (PPJIA2019.10), by the Campus de Excelencia Internacional Global del Mar (CEI•Mar) through the “Ayudas Proyectos Jóvenes Investigadores CEI•Mar 2019” (Project CEIJ-020), by the “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades” through the “Ayudas para la adquisición de equipamiento científico-técnico, Subprograma estatal de infraestructuras de investigación y equipamiento científico-técnico (plan Estatal I+D+i 2017–2020)” (project EQC2018-004988-P), by the “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad” in the “Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, Subprograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento” within the project under Grant TIN2017-84802-C2-1-P and by the European Union through the ERANETMED (Euromediterranean Cooperation through ERANET joint activities and beyond) project ERANETMED3-227 SMARTWATIR.
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Sendra, S., Botella-Campos, M., Lloret, J., Jimenez, J.M. (2021). Wireless Sensor Network to Create a Water Quality Observatory in Coastal Areas. In: Peñalver, L., Parra, L. (eds) Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications. Industrial IoT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71061-3_7
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