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Abstract

Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is an emerging field within Internet of Things (IoT) towards smart cities. IoUT has applications in monitoring underwater structures as well as marine life. This paper presents preliminary work where sensor nodes were built on Arduino Uno platform with temperature and pressure sensors with wireless capability. The sensors nodes were then tested in the Flumes of the COAST laboratory to determine the maximum depth achievable in fresh water before the signal is lost as radio frequencies are susceptible to interference under water. Further, the received signals were de-noised using Wavelet Transform, Daubechies thresholding techniques at level 5. Preliminary results suggest that at a depth of 30 cm, signal was lost, de-noising of the signal was achieved with very small errors (a mean squared error of 0.106 and 0.000446 and Peak-Sign-to-Noise Ratios of 70.18 dB and 58.83 dB for the pressure and temperature signals, respectively. Results from this study will lay the foundation to further investigations in wireless sensor networks in IoUT integrating the de-noising techniques.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-29513-4_85

Publication Date

2019-08-24

Publication Title

Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2019 Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys Volume 2

First Page

1192

Last Page

1198

ISBN

9783030295127

Organisational Unit

Faculty of Science and Engineering

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