Chapter Three: WSNs in environmental monitoring: Data acquisition and dissemination aspects
Zhilbert Tafa University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Abstract
The growth in world population, industrialization, and urbanization, are inducing harmful effects on living environment. Current air and water pollution trends indicate the emergent need for actions toward systematic and continuous identification and management of the pollution sources. Conventional environmental monitoring systems are based on manual periodic on-site sampling, typically by using expensive sparsely deployed instruments. As such, these systems cannot appropriately follow the pollutants' spatiotemporal distribution. On the other hand, the advances in low-cost ...
