The Design and Deployment of an End-To-End IoT Infrastructure for the Natural Environment
Vatsala Nundloll 1,*
, Barry Porter 1,*, Gordon S. Blair 1,*, Bridget Emmett 2, Jack Cosby 2, Davey L. Jones 3,4, Dave Chadwick 3, Ben Winterbourn 2, Philip Beattie 1, Graham Dean 1, Rory Shaw 3, Wayne Shelley 5, Mike Brown 6 and Izhar Ullah 1
, Barry Porter 1,*, Gordon S. Blair 1,*, Bridget Emmett 2, Jack Cosby 2, Davey L. Jones 3,4, Dave Chadwick 3, Ben Winterbourn 2, Philip Beattie 1, Graham Dean 1, Rory Shaw 3, Wayne Shelley 5, Mike Brown 6 and Izhar Ullah 1
1
School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
2
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
3
School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
4
UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
5
British Geological Survey, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK
6
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK
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Future Internet 2019, 11(6), 129; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11060129
Received: 11 April 2019 / Revised: 28 May 2019 / Accepted: 4 June 2019 / Published: 7 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Internet of Things)
Abstract
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. View Full-Text
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