CyanoSense: A Wireless Remote Sensor System Using Raspberry-Pi and Arduino with Application to Algal Bloom

Abstract

Wireless sensor systems have been used in several innovative applications during past few years. However, the key constraints like system design, energy, cost are significantly application dependent. In this paper, we design a wireless sensor system towards an important environmental issue of water quality - Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (CyanoHABs). We present a low-cost, low-energy and low-footprint wireless sensor system which can be deployed remotely to monitor the CyanoHABs. We believe that ours is very first low-cost and solar energy based system developed in the domain of monitoring CyanoHABs that helps domain scientists in regular monitoring of freshwater body.