Designing of an Underwater-Internet of Things (U-IoT) for Marine Life Monitoring

Abstract

Marine life and environmental monitoring of deep sea have become a major field of interest for quite a long time because of the immeasurable region of the area of the ocean that comes with its own dynamics and vulnerabilities. Creating the Underwater-Internet of Things (U-IoT) model within Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) provides the scope of ensuring proper marine life monitoring which supports the aspects of 4th Industrial Revolution. The U-IoT network model is designed for an automated, efficient, smart process of data transfer for both underwater and overwater communications through acoustic waves and Radio Frequency (RF) data transfer techniques, respectively. The proposed U-IoT network model is created with an optimum number of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and surface sinks in order to address Bangladesh’s overfishing problem (e.g., hilsa overfishing problem) which guarantees efficient management of the banning period by the authority. The network model is evaluated by comparing different deployment methods of AUVs and surface sinks taking the South Patch region of Bay of Bengal as the target area. The result shows that the proposed model transfers adequate data of marine life motion from the seafloor can enhance efficient administration of the overfishing problem.