Implementation of Underwater Communication System powered by Solar Energy Harvesting

Underwater communication (UWC) has become a fast-growing research because two-thirds of earth is covered by water. UWC is a promising field that is expected to revolutionise some applications such as; oil industry, pollution monitoring. Data collection from oceans, seas and rivers can play a vital role in detecting anomalies and discovering new resources. This paper proposes an Underwater Monitoring System (UMS) whereas the system has solar/light energy harvesting equipped with the nodes. These nodes are placed underwater to report the temperature of the water from time to another. UMS is tested on one master and two slave nodes whereas the master node is onshore of the beach, while the other two are submerged underwater. Moreover, the success rate and a number of transmitted packets per second are used to evaluate the system performance. Furthermore, two different types of solar panels are examined namely; amorphous and mono-crystalline. Further, different light sources are considered such as sunlight, LED and Halogen illumination. In addition, UMS is examined in terms of different containers materials as some Radio Frequency (RF) reflection signals might occur.