Research works of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications and its constraints solutions occupy wide area around the world and attract many researchers. In this paper, an important one of environmental WSN applica...Research works of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications and its constraints solutions occupy wide area around the world and attract many researchers. In this paper, an important one of environmental WSN applications is presented that is the water monitoring applications. An efficient approach for monitoring and controlling water parameters in real-time is implemented utilizing merging between WSN and designed simple workstation. For implementation simplicity, two water parameters (pH and temperature) are monitored and controlled in the proposed approach. Most of past work of water monitoring presented different proposed monitoring scenarios for different water parameters only. This research work utilizes the concept of interactive WSN nodes. The interactive nodes interact with the monitored water parameters to control its value. In the base station, the collected data is analyzed and the real-time value of the monitored parameters appears on the designed Graphic User Interface (GUI). The GUI is designed using the Matlab program. Through the GUI, the operator can switch the control between automatic and manual. ZigBee module is used for implementing the wireless communications between the nodes and the workstation. Due to the cost and simplicity, two sensors only are used in the proposed approach. Different real-time experiments are performed to test and measure the effectiveness and performance of the presented approach. These experiments reveal that the presented approach is effective for water treatment and efficient more than the past proposed water monitoring scenarios.展开更多
A multi-parameters monitoring system based on wireless network was set up to achieve remote real-time monitoring of aquaculture water quality,in order to improve the quality of aquaculture products and solve such prob...A multi-parameters monitoring system based on wireless network was set up to achieve remote real-time monitoring of aquaculture water quality,in order to improve the quality of aquaculture products and solve such problems as being difficult in wiring and high costs in current monitoring system.In the system solar cells and lithium cells were used for power supply.The YCS-2000 dissolved oxygen sensor,pH electrode,Pt1000 temperature sensor and ammonia nitrogen sensor were used to monitor the parameters of aquaculture water quality;STM32F103 chip was used for data processing;Zigbee and GPRS modules were used for data transmission to the remote monitoring center,where the data were stored and displayed.The system was connected with aerator to realize automatic control of dissolved oxygen concentration.The test results showed high confidence level of data transmission with a packet loss rate of 0.43%.Therefore,the system could fulfill the real-time remote monitoring of aquaculture water quality and had great practical significance in reduction of labor intensity,improvement of quality of aquatic products and protection of water environment.展开更多
文摘Research works of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications and its constraints solutions occupy wide area around the world and attract many researchers. In this paper, an important one of environmental WSN applications is presented that is the water monitoring applications. An efficient approach for monitoring and controlling water parameters in real-time is implemented utilizing merging between WSN and designed simple workstation. For implementation simplicity, two water parameters (pH and temperature) are monitored and controlled in the proposed approach. Most of past work of water monitoring presented different proposed monitoring scenarios for different water parameters only. This research work utilizes the concept of interactive WSN nodes. The interactive nodes interact with the monitored water parameters to control its value. In the base station, the collected data is analyzed and the real-time value of the monitored parameters appears on the designed Graphic User Interface (GUI). The GUI is designed using the Matlab program. Through the GUI, the operator can switch the control between automatic and manual. ZigBee module is used for implementing the wireless communications between the nodes and the workstation. Due to the cost and simplicity, two sensors only are used in the proposed approach. Different real-time experiments are performed to test and measure the effectiveness and performance of the presented approach. These experiments reveal that the presented approach is effective for water treatment and efficient more than the past proposed water monitoring scenarios.
基金The authors acknowledge that the research was financially supported by“Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.XDJK2014D006 and No.2362014XK13).
文摘A multi-parameters monitoring system based on wireless network was set up to achieve remote real-time monitoring of aquaculture water quality,in order to improve the quality of aquaculture products and solve such problems as being difficult in wiring and high costs in current monitoring system.In the system solar cells and lithium cells were used for power supply.The YCS-2000 dissolved oxygen sensor,pH electrode,Pt1000 temperature sensor and ammonia nitrogen sensor were used to monitor the parameters of aquaculture water quality;STM32F103 chip was used for data processing;Zigbee and GPRS modules were used for data transmission to the remote monitoring center,where the data were stored and displayed.The system was connected with aerator to realize automatic control of dissolved oxygen concentration.The test results showed high confidence level of data transmission with a packet loss rate of 0.43%.Therefore,the system could fulfill the real-time remote monitoring of aquaculture water quality and had great practical significance in reduction of labor intensity,improvement of quality of aquatic products and protection of water environment.
