The goal of the water security IoT chapter is to present a comprehensive and integrated IoT-
based approach to environmental quality and monitoring by generating new knowledge and …

The projected increases in World population and need for food have recently motivated
adoption of information technology solutions in crop fields within precision agriculture …

The aim of this article is to discuss the usability of the long-range (LoRa) transmission
technology together with the LoRa wide-area network (LoRaWAN) protocol for underground …

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 …

Unique interactions between soil and communication components in wireless underground
communications necessitate revisiting fundamental communication concepts from a different …

Current wireless underground (UG) communication techniques are limited by their
achievable distance. In this paper, a novel framework for underground beamforming using …

The Internet of Underground Things (IOUT) has many applications in the area of smart
lighting. IOUT enables communications in smart lighting through underground (UG) and …

Internet of underground things (IOUT) is an emerging paradigm which consists of sensors
and communication devices, partly or completely buried underground for real-time soil …

In this paper, a path loss model is developed to predict the impact of soil type, soil moisture,
operation frequency, distance, and burial depth of sensors for through-the-soil wireless …

Continuous sensing of soil moisture is essential for smart agriculture variable rate irrigation
(VRI), real-time agricultural decision making, and water conservation. Therefore …