Sensor-based Wastewater Monitoring Framework to Detect COVID-19

This paper introduces a simple Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based framework that uses Proteus sensors of Libelium Smart Water Xtreme IoT platform to detect e-Coli in wastewater, uses an efficient priority-based routing protocol for timely notification of the detection e-Coli at the COVID-19 detection lab to identify the existence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that currently causes the COVID-19 pandemic. These sensors use fluorescence to monitor coli forms in real-time, determining if the water is polluted and contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 once tested at the lab. The framework also includes an efficient Packet Priority Routing Protocol (PPRP) that prioritizes data packets transmission related to detecting COVID-19 over other data packets for timely and emergency measures. Simulation results show that the proposed PPRP routing protocol is more efficient in terms of end-to-end data transmission delay and network energy consumption than existing LEACH and CPWS protocols.