Magnetically coupled wireless communication for buried environmental sensor

McCaffrey, Colm; Häkli, Janne; Hirvonen, Mervi; Huhtinen, Ismo; Nummila, K. K.; Lehikoinen, Timo

doi:10.1109/eeeic.2013.6549539

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“…We have previously discussed that the heterogeneous soil medium and water content of the soil limit the transmission range of EMbased IoUT [40]. Hence, magnetic induction (MI) has been introduced to overcome the limitations of EM waves for IoUT [21], [98]. In this section, we will cover multiple aspects of MI-based IoUT which include channel modeling, networking, and localization.…”

Section: Magnetic Induction For Ioutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward the Internet of Underground Things: A Systematic Survey

Saeed

Alouini

Al-Naffouri

2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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This paper provides recent advances in the area of Internet of Underground Things (IoUT) with emphasis on enabling communication technologies, networking issues, and localization techniques. IoUT is enabled by underground things (sensors), communication technology, and networking protocols. This new paradigm of IoUT facilitates the integration of sensing and communication in the underground environment for various industries, such as oil and gas, agriculture, seismic mapping, and border monitoring. These applications require to gather relevant information from the deployed underground things. However, the harsh underground propagation environment including sand, rock, and watersheds do not allow the use of single communication technology for information transfer between the surface and the underground things. Therefore, various wireless and wired communication technologies are used for underground communication. The wireless technologies are based on acoustic waves, electromagnetic waves, magnetic induction and visible light communication while the wired technologies use coaxial cable and optical fibers. In this paper, state-of-art communication technologies are surveyed, and the respective networking and localization techniques for IoUT are presented. Moreover, the advances and applications of IoUT are also reported. Also, new research challenges for the design and implementation of IoUT are identified.

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Section: Magnetic Induction For Ioutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward the Internet of Underground Things: A Systematic Survey

Saeed

Alouini

Al-Naffouri

2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Another wireless sensor mote using LF (125 kHz) magnetic induction from a buried battery-powered transmitter is presented in [16]. With the help of a large coil antenna measuring 4 m by 4 m on the surface, a ground-penetration communication range of 12 m is achieved through buried black schist ore.…”

Section: Wireless/rfids For Pipelinesmentioning

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“…The communication protocols and system schematics are designed to reduce the detuning effects of metal seen by conventional RFID platforms. Our solution combines the higher range of currently available methods from 3 m and RYB, with the sensor abilities of [15][16][17] while remaining passive (battery-less). A comparison to other research is shown in Table 1.…”

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A Sequential RFID System for Robust Communication with Underground Carbon Steel Pipes in Oil and Gas Applications

Vyas

Tye

2019

Electronics

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The world’s oil and gas is transported using a network of steel pipelines most of which lie underground. The length of this network in the US/Canada alone is 3.5 million kilometers. Keeping track of pipes in such a network for pipeline-health monitoring, maintenance, and logistics is an acute problem faced by pipeline-operators. Recently, radio-frequency-identification tags (RFIDs) have been proposed for tracking pipelines and even for monitoring pipeline health with additional built-in sensors. Low-cost RFID tags are wirelessly powered and battery-less. However, RFIDs do not function optimally in the presence of magnetic carbon steel pipes that are prevalent in the industry. High-frequency wireless signals also attenuate rapidly through wet soils. In this research, the use of passive RFID sensor platforms for interrogating buried pipes up to 1.25 m deep in the LF bands is proposed. Using magnetic-induction-based communication, a test-comparison between conventional full/half duplex (FDX/HDX) and sequential (SEQ) RFID schemes is detailed. Wireless measurements in the presence of an industry-standard ASTM A-53 carbon-steel pipe show a SEQ RFID offering better immunity against magnetic proximity effects of the pipe’s wall with an 8.3 dB (x6.8) improvement over a FDX/HDX RFID operating under similar conditions over a distance of 80–125 cm at which pipes are typically buried.

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A Test Comparison of Full/Half Duplex and Sequential RFID Systems for Communication with Magnetic Carbon Steel Pipes

Tye

Vyas

2019

2019 IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)

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Magnetically coupled wireless communication for buried environmental sensor

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Toward the Internet of Underground Things: A Systematic Survey

Toward the Internet of Underground Things: A Systematic Survey

A Sequential RFID System for Robust Communication with Underground Carbon Steel Pipes in Oil and Gas Applications

A Test Comparison of Full/Half Duplex and Sequential RFID Systems for Communication with Magnetic Carbon Steel Pipes

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