Abstract
Storm drains and sanitary sewers are prone to backups and overflows due to extra amount wastewater entering the pipes. To prevent that, it is imperative to efficiently monitor the urban underground infrastructure. The combination of sensors system and wireless underground communication system can be used to realize urban underground IoT applications, e.g., storm water and wastewater overflow monitoring systems. The aim of this article is to establish a feasibility of the use of wireless underground communications techniques, and wave propagation through the subsurface soil and asphalt layers, in an underground pavement system for storm water and sewer overflow monitoring application. In this paper, the path loss analysis of wireless underground communications in urban underground IoT for wastewater monitoring has been presented. The dielectric properties of asphalt, sub-grade aggregates, and soil are considered in the path loss analysis for the path loss prediction in an underground sewer overflow and wastewater monitoring system design. It has been shown that underground transmitter was able to communicate through thick asphalt (10 cm) and soil layers (20 cm) for a long range of up to 4 km.
Keywords
Wireless Underground Channel, Underground Communications, Internet of Underground Things
Date of this Version
2-11-2020
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Civil Engineering Commons, Construction Engineering and Management Commons, Digital Communications and Networking Commons, Electromagnetics and Photonics Commons, Environmental Engineering Commons, Environmental Monitoring Commons, Soil Science Commons, Systems and Communications Commons, Systems Architecture Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons, Water Resource Management Commons
Comments
This is the Publisher version of U. Raza, A. Salam, "Wireless Underground Communications in Sewer and Stormwater Overflow Monitoring: Radio Waves through Soil and Asphalt Medium", Information, Volume 11, No. 2, 2020. doi: 10.3390/info11020098. Published by MDPI, it is made available here CC-BY.