The Design and Deployment of an End-To-End IoT Infrastructure for the Natural Environment

Vatsala Nundloll, Barry Porter, Gordon S. Blair, Bridget Emmett, Jack Cosby, Davey L. Jones, Dave Chadwick, Ben Winterbourn, Philip Beattie, Graham Dean, Rory Shaw, Wayne Shelley, Mike Brown and Izhar Ullah
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Vatsala Nundloll: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Barry Porter: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Gordon S. Blair: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Bridget Emmett: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Jack Cosby: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Davey L. Jones: School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Dave Chadwick: School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Ben Winterbourn: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Philip Beattie: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Graham Dean: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Rory Shaw: School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Wayne Shelley: British Geological Survey, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK
Mike Brown: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK
Izhar Ullah: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK

Future Internet, 2019, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-27

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) systems have seen recent growth in popularity for city and home environments. We report on the design, deployment, and use of the IoT infrastructure for environmental monitoring and management. Working closely with hydrologists, soil scientists, and animal behaviour scientists, we successfully deployed and utilised a system to deliver integrated information across these two fields in the first such example of real-time multidimensional environmental science. We describe the design of this system; its requirements and operational effectiveness for hydrological, soil, and ethological scientists; and our experiences from building, maintaining, and using the deployment at a remote site in difficult conditions. Based on this experience, we discuss key future work for the IoT community when working in these kinds of environmental deployments.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; environmental science; experiences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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