Journal
SENSORS
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s18072248
Keywords
environmental monitoring; social enterprise; open source technologies; internet of things; wireless sensor networks; low-cost sensors
Funding
- Logan City Council EnviroGrant scheme, Griffith University Institute of Integrated and Intelligent Systems
- University of Queensland School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Expense and the logistical difficulties with deploying scientific monitoring equipment are the biggest limitations to undertaking large scale monitoring of aquatic environments. The Smart Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Technologies (SEMAT) project is aimed at addressing this problem by creating an open standard for low-cost, near real-time, remote aquatic environmental monitoring systems. This paper presents the latest refinement of the SEMAT system in-line with the evolution of existing technologies, inexpensive sensors and environmental monitoring expectations. We provide a systems analysis and design of the SEMAT remote monitoring units and the back-end data management system. The system's value is augmented through a unique e-waste recycling and repurposing model which engages/educates the community in the production of the SEMAT units using social enterprise. SEMAT serves as an open standard for the community to innovate around to further the state of play with low-cost environmental monitoring. The latest SEMAT units have been trialled in a peri-urban lake setting and the results demonstrate the system's capabilities to provide ongoing data in near real-time to validate an environmental model of the study site.
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