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WaterS: A Sigfox‐compliant prototype for water monitoring
Author(s) -
Di Gennaro Pietro,
Lofú Domenico,
Vitanio Daniele,
Tedeschi Pietro,
Boccadoro Pietro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
internet technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2476-1508
DOI - 10.1002/itl2.74
Subject(s) - lpwan , computer science , internet of things , wide area network , range (aeronautics) , environmental science , telecommunications , world wide web , engineering , aerospace engineering
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents the enabling paradigm of a huge number of smart applications, spanning from short‐range communications to Low‐Power Wide‐Area Network (LPWAN). Among them, environmental monitoring becomes more and more challenging as the area of interest is difficult to reach. The present contribution proposes WaterS, an open‐source project that relies on low‐cost and rapid‐prototyping technologies. It tackles the main challenges of remote water quality monitoring systems taking advantage of the Sigfox protocol stack. The realized experimental setup is able to gather geo‐referenced water quality measurements. Finally, it successfully addresses self‐sufficiency thanks to solar energy harvesting.