A Wireless Sensor Network-Based Approach with Decision Support for Monitoring Lake Water Quality

Sensors

Xiaoci Huang¹  Jianjun Yi¹  Shaoli Chen¹  Xiaomin Zhu¹ 

[1] Department of Mechanical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; E-Mails:

关键词: WSN;    decision;    monitor;    lake water;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s151129273

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Online monitoring and water quality analysis of lakes are urgently needed. A feasible and effective approach is to use a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Lake water environments, like other real world environments, present many changing and unpredictable situations. To ensure flexibility in such an environment, the WSN node has to be prepared to deal with varying situations. This paper presents a WSN self-configuration approach for lake water quality monitoring. The approach is based on the integration of a semantic framework, where a reasoner can make decisions on the configuration of WSN services. We present a WSN ontology and the relevant water quality monitoring context information, which considers its suitability in a pervasive computing environment. We also propose a rule-based reasoning engine that is used to conduct decision support through reasoning techniques and context-awareness. To evaluate the approach, we conduct usability experiments and performance benchmarks.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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