Wireless underground sensor networks: Research challenges

By Ian F. Akyildiz, Erich P. Stuntebeck. Ad hoc networks, 2006

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Full length article: Signal propagation techniques for wireless underground communication networks (2009, neutral): “Third, operating frequencies in MHz or lower ranges are necessary to achieve a practical transmission range [1].”
BorderSense: Border patrol through advanced wireless sensor networks (2011, background): “BorderSense utilizes the most advanced sensor network technologies, including wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) [1] [2] and wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) [3] [4].”
Wireless sensor networks for agriculture: The state-of-the-art in practice and future challenges (2015, background): “Another variant of the WSNs is its underground counterpart— Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) (Akyildiz and Stuntebeck, 2006; Vuran and Akyildiz, 2008).”
A Review of Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications in Agriculture and Food Industry: State of the Art and Current Trends (2009, background): “Another application can be landslide prediction by monitoring soil movement [80].”
Magnetic Induction Communications for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (2010, background): “Other simulation parameters are set as follows: for EM wave system, the operating frequency is set to 300 MHz.”
Internet of Things for the Future of Smart Agriculture: A Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies (2021, background): “There are many variants of WSNs used in agricultural applications which include: wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) [35], terrestrial wireless sensor networks (TWSN) [36], wireless underground sensor networks (WUSN) [37], underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) [38], multi-media WSN [39]”
Wireless sensor network survey (2008, background): “As opposite to terrestrial WSNs, underwater sensor nodes are more expensive and fewer sensor nodes are deployed.”
Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: A top-down survey (2014, background): “Indeed, acoustic communications for underwater sensors and electromagnetic waves for underground sensors suffer from lower propagation speed, noise and path loss, which lead to the degradation of the signal [45,48].”