Integrated Sensing: Integrated Smart-Sensor Networks for Monitoring Aqueous Environments

0225346grimes该提案寻求支持能够在水环境中工作的网络传感器的设计和开发。水网络传感器技术的发展是一个具有挑战性的前景，需要仔细设计和系统集成集成到网络节点中的传感器平台，以在液体中运行，水环境中传感器的包装，以及能够补偿由于水地面和水气界面引起的反射的突发传播声学通信方案（稳态载波的脉冲调制）。PI将设计并集成能够在水中操作的传感器技术，基于声学的通信技术和数据处理协议，以实现能够自主、连续和实时监测溪流、湖泊、海洋海湾、加工厂中的液体流等的网络传感器技术。他建议将磁弹性传感器阵列集成到节点中，用于测量液体化学成分、液体密度和粘度、pH和温度。除了帮助确保水质之外，水联网传感器将成为生物学家监测湖泊温度、水流特征和化学环境的巨大工具，最终当这项技术得到充分发展时，还将用于海洋。毫无疑问，一种可行的水环境网络传感器技术将在环境监测、工业过程控制、国土安全和科学发现方面得到广泛应用。

0225346GrimesThis proposal seeks support for the design and development of networked sensors capable of operating in aqueous environments. Development of an aqueous network sensor technology is a challenging prospect, requiring careful design and systematic integration of the sensor platforms incorporated into the network nodes for operation in liquids, packaging of the sensors for an aqueous environment, and burst-spread acoustic communication schemes (pulse modulation of a steady state carrier) able to compensate for reflections due to the water-ground and water-air interface. The PI will design and integrate sensor technologies capable of aqueous operation with acoustic based communication technologies and data processing protocols to achieve a network sensor technology able to autonomously, continuously, and in-real time monitor streams, lakes, ocean bays, liquid streams in processing plants, etc. He proposes to integrate arrays of magnetoelastic sensors into the nodes for measurement of liquid chemical composition, liquid density and viscosity, pH and temperature. Beyond helping to ensure water quality, the aqueous networked sensors would be a tremendous tool for biologists seeking to monitor the temperature, flow characteristics, and chemical environment of lakes and, ultimately when the technology is fully developed, oceans. Without question a viable networked sensor technology for aqueous environments would find great application for environmental monitoring, industrial process control, homeland security and scientific discovery.