Tele-Monitoring System for Water and Underwater Environments using Cloud and Big Data Systems

Recent research in communications and computer science has been considered to advance the performances of monitoring water environments. However, constrains produced by the water environments, caused by the specific channel propagation and harsh operating conditions must be taken into account. The purpose of this paper is to define and describe a monitoring system for the water environments, based on a previous study regarding both the underwater, but also technologies that are appropriate for such surroundings. The system is based on an underwater sensors network which is connected to a cloud platform by means of a reconfigurable wireless transceiver. The sensor network integrates several low cost sensors that can measure different parameters such as water level, the water flow, temperature, pressure etc. The measured parameters will be transmitted through an operational communication node, which should be able to ensure a reliable communication with timing and variation delay constraints. Finally, the paper describes the platform interface available to end users, providing real time visualization of the water environment events.