The design and deployment of an end-to-end IoT infrastructure for the natural environment

Nundloll, Vatsala; Porter, Barry; Blair, Gordon S.; Emmett, Bridget ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389; Cosby, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-3373; Jones, Davey L.; Chadwick, Dave; Winterbourn, Ben; Beattie, Philip; Dean, Graham; Shaw, Rory; Shelley, Wayne; Brown, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-0633; Ullah, Izhar. 2019 The design and deployment of an end-to-end IoT infrastructure for the natural environment [in special issue: Cloud computing and internet of things] Future Internet, 11 (6), 129. 27, pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11060129

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi11060129

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11060129
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pollution (Science Area 2017-) Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-) Unaffiliated
ISSN:	1999-5903
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, environmental science, experiences
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Electronics, Engineering and Technology
Date made live:	24 Jul 2019 10:00 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524468

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11060129

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Pollution (Science Area 2017-)
Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
Unaffiliated

ISSN:

1999-5903

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

Additional Keywords:

wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, environmental science, experiences