Coordinating standards and applications for optical water quality sensor networks

Water Quality and Standards

Water is an essential material for all organisms on earth to sustain life, and a satisfactory water supply must be made available to consumers. It is required that drinking water not be contaminated by microbes or chemical substances harmful to human health. Pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa in drinking water cause waterborne infectious diseases. The pollution source, pathogenicity, and...

Water Quality Standards and Monitoring

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Drinking water quality standards and their development 2.1. WHO drinking water quality guidelines 2.2. Health related chemicals 2.3. Microbiological aspects 2.4. Acceptability aspects 2.5. Development of national drinking water quality standard 3. Wastewater quality standard 4. Water quality consideration in various water uses 4.1. Agricultural water use and preventi...

Coverage Quality in Visual Sensor Networks

Software-driven sensor networks for short-range shallow water applications

Most existing underwater networks target deep and long range oceanic environments, which has led to the design of power hungry and expensive underwater communication hardware. Because of prohibitive monetary and energy cost of currently overengineered communication hardware, dense deployments of shallow water sensor networks remain an elusive goal. To enable dense shallow water networks, we pro...

An Adaptive Congestion Alleviating Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks: Learning Automata Approach

Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) involve a convergence of biosensors, wireless communication and networks technologies. WBSN enables real-time healthcare services to users. Wireless sensors can be used to monitor patients’ physical conditions and transfer real time vital signs to the emergency center or individual doctors. Wireless networks are subject to more packet loss and congestion. T...