Research advancements in ocean environmental monitoring systems using wireless sensor networks: a review

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Research advancements in ocean environmental monitoring
systems using wireless sensor networks: a review
Jai Prakash Mishra, Kulwant Singh, Himanshu Chaudhary
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received May 13, 2022
Revised Nov 05, 2022
Accepted Nov 12, 2022
The ocean environment monitoring system is of great significance to the
researchers because the ocean is the storehouse of natural resources. It is
critical to comprehend and assess the ocean’s environmental conditions.
Several studies have been conducted over the last several decades that use
sophisticated information and communication techniques to ensure the ocean
ecosystem. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a promising technology to
monitor the ocean environment, which delivers significant benefits such as
enhanced accuracy and real-time observations. The advancements in sensor
technology such as micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), integrated
systems, distributed processing, wireless communications, and wireless
sensor applications have contributed to the development of WSNs. This
paper describes the utilization of WSN and analyzes the previous and
existing project works and technologies used for ocean environment
monitoring through WSNs, and also includes the MEMS sensor technology
used for monitoring various ocean parameters such as ocean wave
monitoring, water conductivity, temperature, and depth of ocean.
Keywords:
MEMS sensor
Ocean environment monitoring
Ocean waves
WSN
Wireless sensors
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Himanshu Chaudhary
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
School of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur
Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, India
Email: himanshu.chaudhary@jaipur.manipal.edu
1. INTRODUCTION
In the current scenario and due to technological advancements in wireless communication, wireless
sensor technology is highly demanding in several sectors. Such types of demand may be fulfilled by using
wireless sensor network (WSN). The WSN is a wireless network including distributed independent various
sensors designed to monitor physical or environmental parameters. A WSN is made up of a set of
interconnected several dedicated and specialized sensor nodes that communicate and exchange information and
data by using a specified topology [1]. A WSN has a variety of unique features including power efficiency,
scalability, responsiveness, reliability, and mobility. In the recent decade, WSNs have been widely used in
various sectors, including water observation [2], agricultural surveillance [3], forest monitoring [4], battlefield
and military operations [5], [6], autonomous and smart homes [7], industrial applications [8], ocean environment
monitoring for catastrophe prevention [9], [10] and monitoring of various parameters of the ocean [11].
With the exponential growth of social activities and the economy, the ocean ecosystem has steadily
been damaged by a growing amount of human activities. In a broad range of day-to-day operations, the ocean
environment and underwater monitoring are important activities, so it is required to pay attention to ocean
environmental monitoring. Traditionally oceanographic environment monitoring is mostly based on a manual
process that includes the collection of a huge amount of seawater and laboratory analysis which involves

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several stages such as sampling, transport, pre-treatment, and instrument analysis, but this method is very
costly and time-consuming, with a minimum resolution both in space and time [12]. A WSN-based
methodology will significantly increase access to real-time data spanning long stretches and broad
geographical areas for marine environment monitoring and analysis [13]. According to Mohsan et al. [14],
the WSN-based oceanographic monitoring technique is less expensive and more suitable than the
conventional oceanographic monitoring method.
WSNs include several types of sensors, these sensors collect the data from the marine environment
by sensing the various physical and chemical parameters such as turbidity, water temperature, salinity,
pressure, chlorophyll levels, pH level, oxygen density and then transfer the information to nodes where it gets
processed [15]. There are various critical challenges to the design and development of environmental
monitoring systems using WSNs, such as communications stability, time synchronization stability and
minimization of power consumption are major challenges in the development of environmental monitoring
sensor networks [4]. Elgenaidi and Newe [16] have also examined oceanic monitoring research and
development by utilizing wireless sensor networks and highlighted the WSN’s oceanographic surveillance
issues and problems such as energy consumption, data transmission, and security. The research community
recognized these problems and challenges and made great efforts to create protocols on various layers to
solve them. Such protocols require maintaining accurate network performance with the consideration of
numerous aspects like being tolerant of a network failure [17], security in data transmission, and energy
constraints [18]. It requires at least four different modules to make the sensor nodes [19]. Primarily, the focus
is on developing a sensing module for data acquisition. It can be created by including one or many sensors
for sensing the processing module with the sense of one or more environmental constraints. It contains a
central processing unit (CPU) that receives the data and performs the storage as well as processing
operations. It has an In-charge of the wireless transceiver module that uses several wireless technologies in
wireless communications such as ZigBee, Wi-Fi, and radiofrequency. Secondarily, it has a power supply
module that is formed by a power management system and consists of batteries. It should deliver stable and
continuous power to the rest of the modules. But researchers have some recommendations to develop a
sensor system to be integrated with a wireless system for energy-saving and low-cost strategies.
Spencer [20] noted that a sensor must be called a smart sensor with features such as an onboard CPU,
compact size, wireless capability, and the promise of low cost and energy saving. Similarly, Spencer et al. [21]
note that if it contains an onboard microprocessor, a wireless communication device, and sensing capabilities, a
sensor can be considered smart. They should also be powered by batteries and have a low cost. Manson et al. [22]
designed and developed an integrated microsystem for the measurement of ambient humidity, temperature,
acceleration, and barometric pressure measurement. In this device, the embedded micro controller unit (MCU)
communicates with the sensor bus, which scans the sensors regularly, calibrates and compensates for their
data, and uses either a hard-wired system bus or a wireless link to transmit the resulting information to the
outside world. Low size and high sensor accuracy for low-power wireless applications were the key concerns
of this device. Similarly, Lou et al. [23] designed a marine environment monitoring system based on WSN
using ZigBee wireless communication technology for monitoring pH and dissolved oxygen (DO). They have
utilized CS526 as pH sensor and optical dissolved oxygen technology (OPTOD) as dissolved oxygen sensor and
connected with MSP430F149 MCU, the CC2430 is used as ZigBee module. The major advantages of this
system are low power consumption of 0−3.6 dBm and an enhanced range of communication up to 30−70 m
with power detection capacity.
Since the development of sensor technology, a lot of advancement has been made by researchers on
low power consumption and low cost [24]. However, the micro electromechanical system (MEMS) sensor
technology also has become proven technology for low power consumption, low cost, and high sensitivity
with embedded processing and wireless networking capability for both overwater and underwater
applications as compared to other conventional sensor technology [25], [26]. The MEMS-based inertial
sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope can be utilized for wave structure analysis i.e., wave direction,
wave height, wave period, and wave velocity with wireless sensor networking [27], [28]. Since the
development of MEMS sensor technology, there are few research works have been made on the utilization of
MEMS sensor technology with WSN for ocean environment monitoring.
This article presents an extensive overview of research advancements in the field of ocean
environmental monitoring and prediction systems using WSN. The remaining part of the paper is arranged
accordingly: section 2 examines the monitoring techniques of ocean parameters and characteristics of the
ocean environment. Section 3 discusses the advancement in ocean environment monitoring technologies.
Section 4 describes the role of MEMS sensor technology in wireless communication. Section 5 discusses the
MEMS sensor-based techniques used for ocean environment monitoring systems and at the end of this
article, section 6 discusses the conclusion and future scope.

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2. MONITORING TECHNIQUES OF OCEAN PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Ocean wave monitoring is a fundamental process that enables data acquisition, understanding of wave
behaviors, and design parameters estimation of coastal and offshore infrastructure and plays a major role in the
interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean. Many efforts have been made by researchers to predict
wave height and severe sea states [29], [30]. The initial approach is using wave models and air-wind interaction
for predicting wave height. Various models and methods have been suggested by researchers for the deep-sea or
coastal sea with various analytical terms for retrieving the wave parameters and characteristics.
2.1. Wave and ocean environment monitoring
Figure 1 shows the general architecture of the WSN-based wave and ocean environment monitoring
system. It involves the base station, sink nodes, multiple sensor nodes, data server, and user interface
terminals [31]. The sensor nodes can sense the sea environment parameters e.g., the temperature of the water,
humidity, pH level, wave turbulence and transfer the information to sink nodes via wireless communication
by utilizing the ZigBee or other communication protocols. The point-to-point approach is considered while
developing the communication between the sink node as well as a sensor node. The sink node has the task to
gather the information from sensor nodes, and further sends the gathered information to the base station
through the general packet radio services (GPRS) wireless network. The received data gets processed and
stored by the data server from the base station. Afterward, the internet connects the terminals of user
terminals with the data server.
Researchers suggest and work on numerous definite networks, algorithms, protocols, and routing
mechanisms for the monitoring of the WSN-based marine environment. Saha and Matsumoto [32] suggested
and developed a framework for WSN-based data collection for rescue operations and disaster mitigation.
This system is available for data distribution in disaster regions as the protocol is operable at WSN
communication with better energy efficiency as well as lower delay. Validation of the simulated experiment
was conducted for comparing the performance of several other protocols with the sensor networks for
disaster relief operations management (SENDROM) protocol.
Sendra et al. [33] proposed another WSN i.e., underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) using
multiple low-cost sensors mounted in the buoy, which keeps it isolated from possible oxidation problems.
The buoy is wirelessly connected to the base station using the FlyPort module. Such UWSN needs numerous
constraints during its design and development as communication technologies, network topology, sensor
node distribution, sensor node mobility models, and sensor node numbers. Roadknight et al. [34] suggested
data management approaches as multi-layered adaptive and scalable for WSN. Such an algorithm has three
decision-making elements as parameter evolution, local rules, and sliding window averaging. Lu et al. [35]
designed a WSN framework for the applications of environmental monitoring. The main outline of such a
network layer is that it was developed by considering multiple factors such as network monitoring unified
routing/scheduling, service-aware control platform, and heterogeneity. Barbosa et al. [36] illustrated another
WSN routing algorithm applicable for the monitoring of marine oil slicks. They suggested the utilization of
two different approaches for message routing, multiple relay decision (MRD) and single relay decision
(SRD) protocols. Some algorithms are providing much more effective message dissemination than greedy
and single-hop methodologies. Although, such a method does not consider network scalability, energy
harvesting, and node mobility.
Albaladejo et al. [9] illustrated another wireless monitoring system that is standardized as IEEE
802.15.4 for gathering the parameters (temperature and pH) from a fish farm. Such an algorithm utilized the
routing (ZigBee) method and the application layer for operating data communication from the source node to
the central coordinator. Researchers developed the algorithm to extend the lifetime of the node as the power
consumption in the sub-layer procedure. Xu et al. [37] suggested an advanced WSN media access control
(MAC) protocol that fulfills the requirements of reliability, bandwidth, real-time broadcast, and energy
consumption for monitoring the oceanic atmosphere. Although, such an algorithm did not have any real
sensor node to validate its performance. Harchi et al. [38] presented an algorithm for monitoring the oil slicks
based on dynamic clustering. It has features such as metric weights, measurement periods, clustering
dynamics, and node numbers to manage climate conditions. The network-clustering algorithm evaluates
several constraints and their impact on its stability. Suakanto et al. [39] suggested another approach for data
processing as a cloud computing-based method in disaster monitoring. This process utilized a transmission
technique as FTR-HTTP from the client to the server remotely. Jalali et al. [40] suggested the mechanism for
energy harvesting as a cooperative hybrid automatic repeat request (C-HARQ) that enhances the feasibility
and energy efficiency of solar-powered WSNs. Researchers performed their C-HARQ experiments on a
Simulink-based simulator or MATLAB for designing the embedded and network systems. Such experimental
shows the superior outcomes of C-HARQ as compared with C-ARQ of relay nodes in energy consumption.
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IoT technology is also becoming a popular technique for ocean environment monitoring. There are
various research has been done on ocean environment monitoring using IoT [15]. The massive amount of
ocean data was produced recently by the rapid development and implementation of IoT technologies in
maritime environment monitoring, and the recent development of big data analytics made it easier to analyze
this data. The ocean environment data deals with several substantial issues, mainly the enormous volume of
data and considerable poor data, like many other IoT-based data gathering systems. These issues have been
the focus of research efforts worldwide. Yang et al. [41] suggested a technique or method for rapidly
determining the form of data gathered via the Internet of Things (IoT). It is extremely quick to compute the
distribution of contour lines properly.
Table 1. WSN-based projects and systems for ocean environment monitoring
Reference /
year
Application areas Sensing parameters
WSN
techniques
Buoy Main features
John et al.
(2010) [42]
Ocean
environmental
monitoring
Surface temperature,
light intensity
ZigBee A miniaturized
version of
sonobuoy
Real-time approach, maintenance-free,
dependable, and cost-effective with
a high-resolution sampling of ocean factors
O’Connor
et al.
(2011) [43]
River and coastal
marine monitoring
Ocean water level
using visual sensor
Multi-modal
sensor
network
− Investigation under environmental sensing
network with a low cost. the shelf nonspecialized
camera as their efficiency, wall detection
quantity that can be observed in terms of the
assessment as flooding risk, tackle data reliability
Pérez et al.
(2011)
[44]
Ocean
environmental
monitoring
Temperature, pressure,
current velocity,
salinity, turbidity
chlorophyll, and
nitrates
GPRS
ZigBee
Special buoy Google Maps and solar energy harvesting are used
in a LabVIEW-based user interface
Sendra
et al.
(2015) [33]
Marine
environment
Salinity, temperature,
turbidity, relative
humidity
FlyPort
module
Multisensory
buoy
Buoy depends on numerous low-cost sensors that
can gather information from the weather as well
as water
Moreno
et al.
(2017)
[45]
Marine-coastal
environment
monitoring
Temperature, humidity,
wind speed,
atmospheric pressure
LoRa NET Multisensory
buoy
Simple to operate and minimal power
consumption, with a range of several KMs and
a cost-effective solution with less infrastructure
needed
Lou et al.
(2020)
[23]
Marine
environment
monitoring
pH and dissolved
oxygen (DO)
Zigbee − Low power consumption of 0−3.6 dBm and
enhanced range of communication up to 30−70 m
with power detection capacity
Demetillo
et al.
(2019)
[46]
Water quality
monitoring in large
aquatic areas
Water temperature,
dissolved oxygen, and
pH monitoring
GSM and
Xbee
transceiver
Customized
buoy
The buoy was remaining stable during the
occurrence of the high cyclone, a real-time
approach was used, and its solar panel provides
continuous power
Figure 1. General block diagram of WSN-based sea and wave monitoring system
3. ADVANCEMENTS IN OCEAN ENVIRONMENT MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES
The wireless sensor network-based ocean environment monitoring system can provide better
technological equipment and information platforms for the control and monitoring of the marine
environment, the conservation of resources, disaster surveillance, marine engineering, offshore development
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monitoring physical and chemical properties of water in remote regions at a low cost and reducing manpower
consumption [46]. The WSN is also utilized for underwater applications such as marine shellfish monitoring,
coral reef monitoring, fish farms monitoring, water quality monitoring as well as general ocean monitoring
such as wave height monitoring. WSN has several advantages, including portability [48]as well as the real-time
acquisition and recording of data capabilities [49]. The WSN can be utilized with global system for mobile
communication (GSM) for monitoring large aquatic regions and transmitting the sensed parameters to the base
station [50]. However, WSN applications and services in the aquatic region are considerably more complicated
than land-based WSN applications because of their electronic component, in which water or even moisture
should not be penetrated.
Due to day-by-day advancements in WSN technologies, it can be categorized according to the specific
data capturing and driven methodology which involves computation methods, analysis, and transmission
techniques [51]. The wireless sensor network may either be placed over water or underwater to collect videos,
images, voice data, and numeric data. Recently many technologies have been implemented by researchers for
ocean environment monitoring such as underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) [52], [53], underwater
optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSN) [54], and long-range wireless sensor networks (LoRa WSN) [55].
The UWSN is very essential due to its various fields of applications including the gathering of marine
data, underwater telemetry, marine pollution monitoring, monitoring of disaster activities such as underwater
seismic and earthquakes activities, chemical waste monitoring, oil leakage detection, monitoring of underwater
flora and fauna, monitoring the health of marine creatures, underwater military applications such as target
detection and tracking [56]. The UWSN consists of movable and stationary nodes that are connected to
underwater acoustic communication networks [57]. These nodes might move from one place to another place
due to water currents, therefore sensor nodes can collect the data from many different locations [52].
The architecture of the UWSN showing in Figure 2. The UWSN network architecture consists of stationary sensor
nodes, AUVs, and surface buoys with radio links that can communicate with each other via acoustic links. Certain
stationary nodes are connected with the base station via cables and high-speed radio links, respectively.
Figure 2. The architecture of the UWSN
The underwater monitoring is generally performed by navigation support such as autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUV), underwater sensor nodes, and vehicle surveillance. They usually connect to the
surface buoy or sink nodes across the water using acoustic waves and, non-acoustic communication
techniques. That can also be utilized in underwater wireless sensor networks, such as radio frequency (RF),
underwater free-space optics, and magnetic induction (MI). Magnetic induction may also be utilized for
underwater propagation, but it is required a large size of antenna which is impossible in such environmental
conditions. Acoustic communication is the most popular technique for underwater communication because
acoustic waves become less attenuated and may travel great distances due to their low frequency. Wireless
sensor nodes are linked via acoustic waves to form underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). However,
the UASNs nodes consume a large amount (ten times more) of energy as compared to sensor nodes deployed
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For improving overall system performance and energy optimization in UWSN, the “energy
optimized path unaware layered routing protocol (E-PULRP)” has been developed, that optimizes and
reduces the energy consumption in dense WUSN (wireless underground sensor network) [59], in which the
network is formed a layered structure surrounding the center sink node. At each layer, communication from
the node to the sink takes a multi-hop pathway through the relay node, as a result, the E-PULRP protocol
minimizes energy utilization. Another technique for cluster-based energy-efficient UWSN is SEEC:
“sparsity-aware energy-efficient clustering protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks”. SEEC
minimizes and optimizes the energy throughout the entire system by balancing the two algorithms of sparsity
search algorithm (SSA) and density search algorithm (DSA) [60]. The clustering techniques in UWSNs still
have several concerns and challenges. Because nodes can create many sets of data such as temperature,
chemicals, acidity, pH, density, conductivity, and hydrogen. As a result, nodes that generate a lot of traffic
should have a greater priority and be more reliable when sending data to the sink. Furthermore, nodes that are
near the sink always collect data from other nodes as the hot spot of dead nodes. As a result, after some time
nodes should be changed their role as cluster heads.
Khasawneh et al. [61] examined and evaluated several routing protocols and most routing protocols are
multi-hop localization-free, dependable, and, energy-efficient. As a result, to build a reliable and energy-efficient
routing protocol for UWSNs, the routing protocols for UWSNs should be considered impact of node depth,
energy utilization, and multi-hop paths. Furthermore, the clustering-based protocol approach for UWSN
demonstrates the advantages in terms of network coverage, interconnectivity, and responsiveness to a dynamic
environment. Nguyen et al. [62] have presented an energy-efficient clustering multi-hop routing protocol
(EECMR), which can be used to balance nodes’ energy utilization and extend the lifetime of the network.
The network area is split into layers, in terms of depth level. The data collected by the nodes is sent over a
multi-hop routing network to a sink. The cluster head is chosen based on the node’s depth as well as its residual
energy. The cluster head collects data packets from all adjacent cluster nodes and sends them to the sink node’s
top layer. The simulation results show that the EECMR is more effective in terms of node energy usage and
network lifetime. Moreover, the energy-efficient Cluster and cooperative-reliability-based routing protocols
were widely investigated in [63] for UWSN which improves network link quality and is reliable for energy
consumption. The UWSN are based on underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). There are some
limitations of conventional underwater acoustic communication, such as low efficiency, low data rate, and high
latency due to the low propagation speed (approximately 1500 m/s) and limited bandwidth (kHz) of acoustic
waves. But It is a communication technology that can allow three-dimensional ocean underwater monitoring by
implementing increasing demand for high-speed data communication, real-time monitoring, and high efficiency
of UWSN [64].
The development of the 450–550 nm optical transmission window in 1963 gave rise to a new approach
to the development of underwater optical wireless communication technology [65]. However, light waves
cannot transmit long distances (up to km) similar to acoustic waves, their wide bandwidth and low latency make
them ideal for real-time, high-speed (up to Gb/s), and short-distance (up to 100 m) transmission [66]. Recently
various types of optical sources, modulation and multiplexing techniques, photodetectors, and equalization
algorithms have been investigated for the development of underwater wireless optical communication
(UWOC) systems with better data rates and longer transmission distances [67]. Due to continuous
technological advancements in UWOC, it is used in numerous aquatic habitats including rivers, lakes, and
oceans [64], [68], [69]. For the smart and next-generation UWOC system development, the underwater
optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSN) are to be developed for real-time ocean environmental
monitoring. However, theoretical and simulation work on underwater optical wireless sensor networks is
limited [70]. Recently, Kong et al. [54] and his team have developed the first UOWSN prototype for
bidirectional optical wireless communication. It is made up of two sensor nodes as well as an optical hub.
The sensor nodes have a transceiver circuit, a pH sensor, and integrated salinity, temperature, and
conductivity sensors that allow for real-time underwater environmental monitoring. The optical hub consists
of a system-on-chip (SOC) circuit that used on-off (OOK) modulation and demodulation techniques.
The data transmission rate of OOK signals have 1.5 Mb/sec. The sensor node and optical hub are placed at
60 cm from each other and during the laboratory experiment 100% packet success rate was achieved between
the sensor node and optical hub. But more research is required in the field of ocean environment monitoring
technologies to improve data transmission rate, distance, low power consumption, and easy deployment for
real-time monitoring.
In the recent advancement in wireless communication technologies, the LoRa communication technology
is better for long-distance transmission as compared to other communication technology and it is also
appropriate for ocean environment monitoring [71]. A lot of research work has been implemented in the field of
LoRa communication technology to improve the ocean monitoring system’s performance. Guang Jin et. al [72]
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They have compared its energy consumption and complexity with the ZigBee sensor network and concluded
that this system provides an efficient monitoring service in hazardous ocean conditions and long-range data
communication to cover a broader area of up to 800 meters with low power consumption using LoRa
technology. Huang et al. [73] have practically implemented the ocean environment monitoring system based
on LoRa WSN. This system is consisting of a sensor node, gateway, and server platform. The sensor node is
integrated with a temperature sensor, a control chip, and a LoRa communication module. The overall system is
utilized for the monitoring of the underwater temperature information. Li et al. [74] employed a LoRa-enabled
WSN prototype for continuous and real-time monitoring of the humidity, temperature, lighting, and noise
decibels of high-speed railway stations, and its results may be utilized to analyze the performance study of
ocean sensor networks subjected to strong sea waves. They have concluded about the features of LoRa
technology are long-range communication, low power consumption, and low cost. The LoRa technology can
also be utilized for tracking and monitoring small ships [75], which can be very beneficial for aquaculture
activities. The experimental reports show that the LoRa Wireless communication technology can cover a
wider range of up to 4 Km for marine environmental monitoring.
Most of these studies are oriented toward extending the life of remote networks and enhancing
communication quality between sensor systems, nodes, and gateways. The availability of the LoRa-based
ocean WSN for ocean environment monitoring was demonstrated in these experiments, which looked at
network architecture, communication quality, and performance. Moreover, there are more research is
required in the field of LoRa-based wireless sensor networks for real-time monitoring, low power
consumption as well as long-distance communication.
4. ROLE OF MEMS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN
OCEAN ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEMS
The sensor is a device that detects physical quantity and transforms them into corresponding
electrical quantities like voltage, current, capacitance, inductance, and frequency. There are various types of
sensors are used to monitor and measure different physical parameters using WSN including water
temperature, wind direction, wind speed, pressure, and chemical parameters such as pH, salinity, oxygen
density, turbidity, and, chlorophyll levels [31]. The sensor selection depends on deployment region, season,
measurement range, accuracy, resolution, and power consumption.
Continuous advancements in MEMS sensor technology provide the opportunity to integrate the
low-power WSN with a wireless communication protocol for long-term, continuous, and real-time
monitoring [76]. However, for terrestrial applications, the development of MEMS sensor technology,
wireless communications, embedded systems, distributed processing, and wireless sensor applications have a
major transition in the wireless sensor network for marine environmental monitoring. The MEMS-based
inertial sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic compass can be utilized for wave structure
analysis i.e., wave direction, wave height, wave period, and wave velocity with wireless sensor networking.
According to Xu et al. [77], the MEMS technology-based sensors are more dependable for wireless
communication, and their low-cost fabrication has resulted in a compact size, cheap and efficient production
with embedded-processing sensors and wireless networking capability. MEMS technology offers high
integration of hardware components (e.g., battery, microprocessor, sensing modules, analog to digital converter
(ADC), storage unit) as compared to traditional wired sensors. The MEMS sensor nodes are cheap, but their
expense is still too high to make the construction and maintenance of large networks. Perianu et al. [78]
proposed a WSN-based technology for wave monitoring to track different wave parameters such as wave height,
wave direction, and wave velocity. This monitoring system was equipped with IEEE 802.15.4-compatible CC2430
(ZigBee module) along with low-power and low-cost MEMS-based inertial sensors such as accelerometers,
gyroscopes, and a digital compass that have been mounted throughout this device. They have investigated using a
Ferris wheel contraption which is a technique used in practice to evaluate and calibrate wave monitoring solutions.
However, the wave frequency amplitude in real-time cannot be obtained by this system.
A block diagram of an ocean monitoring system using MEMS sensors and a surface buoy is shown
in Figure 3 multiple MEMS sensors can be connected to a buoy. A buoy is a floating device that is anchored
or allowed to drift with ocean currents. The buoy may either float on the surface or maybe submerged
underwater with help of an Anchor. The microcontroller in the buoy gathers information from different
MEMS sensors and delivers it to the data acquisition unit. In this unit data is preprocessed such as a format is
chosen, invalid data is removed. The data is then passed to a data processing unit where computation takes
place and the information regarding the state of the sea is incurred. If abnormal conditions are detected an
alert or warning unit is triggered.
Albaladejo et al. [79] designed and implemented an oceanographic multisensory shallow-water
marine environmental monitoring floating buoy system for monitoring marine pressure, temperature, and
atmospheric pressure. This buoy system was developed with a 16-bit MSP430F2618 microcontroller and

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CC2520 radio transceiver module that combined with a CC2591 device, to enhance the RF communication
coverage area. For the development of the ZigBee, network authors utilize the Z-Stack component of a
simple link, which provides a wide range of functionality to the sensor buoy. There were two experimental
phases, first was the laboratory test to check the operation of radio modules to achieve maximum range, and
the second was the field test in which they verified the power management system (battery charging response
and harvesting system), the communication network and mechanical durability of the sensor buoy under
marine conditions. Marimon et al. [80] developed a WSN based floating platform or buoy by placing wave
sensors on it, in a water body and observing the response of different wave conditions and locations.
To determine the current wave conditions, wave sensors run with preprocessing techniques. The data from
wave sensors were sent to the central node. If the wave sensors have found that the conditions of the local wave
exceed the usual conditions, they will report them to the central node. Furthermore, if the data does not exceed
this, the existing data will continue to be processed until they detect abnormal conditions.
Similarly, in 2018 Chai and Liu [81] designed a real-time wave parameter monitoring system (buoy)
by using a MEMS motion sensor, GPRS wireless transmission technology, and a high-performance
STM32F4 series single-chip microcomputer. The frequency and amplitude of ocean waves were monitored
by time and frequency domain analysis and the information is transmitted via the GSM module to the cloud
server. The main drawback of this buoy system was zero-offsets of the sensor, sensor static noise, sensor
hybrid noise [82] and sensor motion response. These specific parameters were not calibrated to retrieve noise
performance evaluation and nonlinear distortion. In 2020 Yurovsky and Dulov [83] designed and developed
a MEMS sensor (MPU9250) based wave sensing buoy. This buoy was utilized for the measurement of wind
speed (1 to 15 m/s), ocean wave height, and wave direction. To minimize the noise performance and nonlinear
distortion, they calibrated the sensor buoy at every step. Firstly, they estimated the zero-drift with various sensor
orientations, secondly, sensor static noise was estimated for different temperature conditions, and third the
motion response of sensor was checked with the sensor rotation at a variable speed with a different orbit radius.
Table 2 summarizes the MEMS with buoy-based projects and systems for ocean environment monitoring.
Table 2. MEMS sensor with buoy-based projects and systems for ocean environment monitoring
Reference / year
Application
areas
Sensing parameters Techniques Buoy Main features
Aravamudhan
and Bhansali
(2008) [84]
Ocean
monitoring
Pressure Piezoresistive
MEMS
− The reinforced process leads to greater
sensitivity (around 10–15%) and a broader
full-scale span (by twice) as compared with
the traditional piezoresistive pressure
sensor with a single diaphragm
Perianu et al.
(2008) [78]
Ocean
monitoring
Height, direction,
speed, and period
MEMS technology Wave rider buoy
system
low-cost, low power with a calibrated wave
monitoring solution
Marimon et al.
(2011) [85]
Wave
monitoring
Wave height MEMS − Measuring parameters such as angular
deviation and acceleration are utilized as
the substitute by minimization of overall
data usage as well as system power
excluding the quality sacrifice of wave
monitoring, data is pre-processed within the
wave sensor
Brown and
Meadows
(2011) [86]
Ocean wave
monitoring
Wave height, wave
acceleration, and
wave direction
MEMS-based
inertial wave sensor
(IWS) via RS232
Sensor buoy low-cost, low-powered, and real-time
dissemination to data centers with onboard
processing
Crandle et al.
(2016) [87]
Ocean
monitoring
Wave height MEMS Data buoy low power consumption, MEMS sensor has
onboard processing capability, and data is
Pre-processed within the MEMS
Chai and Liu
(2018) [81]
Ocean wave
monitoring
Wave frequency and
amplitude
MEMS Sensor buoy low cost and real-time
Zhang et al.
(2018) [88]
Marine field Inertial sensors,
underwater acoustic
sensors, and
conductivity
temperature-depth
sensors
MEMS technology Ocean buoy As a marine parameter ocean turbulence
plays a significant part in research on ocean
energy transfer, population distribution, and
marine productivity
García et al.
(2018) [89]
Marine Wave height / period,
wind, marine current
intensity / direction
Multi-sensor
floating system
Sensor buoy Treating the characteristics of static as well
as hydrodynamic states under the offshore
marine systems, consisting of the materials
and anchoring requirements
Liu et al.
(2020) [90]
Ocean wave
monitoring
Wave height MEMS technology
with cross
dimensional
method Kalman
filter
Six-dimensional
accelerometer-
based buoy
Development of a novel type of parallel
six-dimensional accelerometer to enhance
the wave buoy’s stability with principle
error reduction using the Kalman filter
technique

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Figure 3. Sea wave monitoring using MEMS sensors
5. MEMS SENSOR-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR OCEAN MONITORING SYSTEMS
The MEMS sensor technology is an intelligent sensing system and integration of microelectronics,
actuators, micro-sensors, and mechanical microstructure on a common silicon substrate through integration
lithography, etching, thin-film, silicon micromachining and precision machining technologies. With the
expanding interest in the marine investigation and the consistent advancement of MEMS innovation.
Different types of sensors based on MEMS have been utilized in ocean perceptions.
5.1. MEMS sensor-based inertial sensors
Brown and Meadows [86] designed and developed a low-cost, low-powered MEMS-based inertial
wave sensor (IWS) for ocean environment monitoring. This inertial sensor has been attached to a buoy to
measure wave height, wave acceleration, and wave direction via RS232. This IWS contains a 3-Axis
accelerometer and digital compass. In 2013 Yunjia and Chuan [91] proposed a monitoring system to identify
multi-point vibration at offshore platforms by combining the MEMS sensors and WSN, and they identify the
multi-point vibration at offshore platforms in the ocean. Sun and Dai [92] proposed a low-power wireless
ice-initiated vibration monitoring system that depends on the MEMS dual-axis acceleration sensor (ADXL202),
and 3-D Acceleration data was visually displayed and stored. The real vibration observing investigation was
performed on the vibration test stage, and the accuracy of the time domain exploratory information was
demonstrated from the frequency domain [93]. Moreover, Zhang et al. [88] of the “naval submarine institute”
gave another strategy for observing sea parameters, for example, ocean target rise, ocean surface tide height,
ebb and flow factor, shore seashore separation, and shore seashore slant dependent on MEMS tilt sensor.
The technique has been executed through the task “portable multifunctional navigation locator”.
Chaudhury et al. [94] utilized MEMS inertial sensors MPU6050 to detect the behavior of ocean waves.
They determined and controlled the direction of locomotion by altering pitch and roll by changing the center of
mass. Concerning the issue of swaying vibration of the seashore stages brought about by the effect of wind and
wave, Boehlert et al. [95] utilized MEMS gyroscopes to build a 1DOF rocking vibration test stage for the angular
velocity information and they utilize an Integral and complementary filter for tackle the issue of zero drift of the
gyro and obtained the time domain and frequency domain curve of single DOF vibration.
5.2. MEMS sensor-based conductivity, temperature and depths (CTD) sensors
Conductivity, temperature, and depth are significant parameters in Ocean wave monitoring research.
The CTD sensors are a significant device in the sea wave perceptions field such as the study of physical,
chemical, and biological structures of the ocean [96]. The CTD sensors are made by using expensive multi-layer
screening or standard micromachining development.
Singh et al. [97] designed the structure of a MEMS-based CTD sensor. They have used the parallel-plate
capacitor structure (Figure 4(a)) for the conductivity sensor, in which most of the electric field is enclosed
between the regions of two charged plates. For the MEMS-based temperature sensor, they utilized a
technique of “doping transition metal impurities” to expand the resistivity of the silicon substrate. Thus, the
MEMS-based CTD sensor was highly sensitive and accurate. The MEMS-based depth sensor was developed
by piezoresistive sensor innovation, its computation principle is depending on the flexibility of the diaphragm
structure. The fixed diaphragm structure was utilized as a flexible component to sense the pressure, and
afterward, a sensitive network was utilized to change the vibrations onto the diaphragm structure into a
corresponding electrical signal. The pressure sensor is designed often built on a flexible membrane as the
sensing pressure spring element. When pressure is applied to the sensitive diaphragm which has
capacitive coupling then the deflection of the membrane and related stresses (piezo-resistors, strain gauges)
are converted into an electric output. The measurement of temperature compared to pressure may easily be
translated to depth (Figure 4(b)).

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Broadbent et al. [98] built up a scaled-down CTD perception system, which was integrated with three
inexpensive sensors included with three inexpensive sensors: a piezoelectric sensor, a resistance temperature
detector (RTD), and an unique planar four-electrode conduction unit. Every one of them can be quickly and
easily supplanted when it is damaged and polluted organically. The conductivity and temperature sensors (RTD)
were integrated with a piezoresistive pressure sensor using micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) technology on
a single printed circuit board (PCB) with thin-film material and liquid crystal polymer (LCP). They have
compared the performance of PCB MEMS-based CTD Sensors with conventional CTD instruments in natural
seawater by taking measurements of conductivity, temperature, and depth (Figure 4(c)). The sensed data was
transmitted wirelessly by using lantronix embedded 802.11b wireless networking transceiver system and after the
experiment, they have concluded that the relative accuracy of measurement can be reached ± 1.47%, ± 0.546 °C,
± 0.02 bar respectively.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 4. Design structures of different MEMS sensor-based conductivity, temperature and depths (CTD)
sensors: (a) multifunctional and miniaturized CTD sensor using a parallel-plate arrangement for measuring
conductivity [96]; (b) arrangement of single diaphragm piezoresistive pressure sensor for temperature and
pressure measurement [97]; (c) structures of a PCB MEMS-based CTD sensor [98]; and (d) miniaturized
conductivity and temperature (CT) sensor chip structure [99]

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Huang et al. [99] has been designed and developed as low power, miniaturized, and high-precision
conductivity and temperature (CT) sensor (Figure 4(d)) using microfabrication technology for continuous
ocean monitoring. Such a sensor system has seven electrodes for conductivity and salinity measurement of
ocean water. These seven electrodes are combined with a platinum resistor temperature bridge to produce an
integrated CT sensor. During the calibration of the CT sensor, accuracies are ± 0.03 mS/cm over the range of
25−55 mS/cm and ± 0.01 °C over the range of 4 °C − 34 °C respectively.
6. CONCLUSION
Wireless sensor networks have become the method of choice for monitoring the ocean environment over
traditional techniques as a result of the advancement of wireless communication technologies. WSN-based ocean
environment monitoring is a highly effective strategy since it comes with many features including real-time
monitoring, automated operation, and relatively inexpensive. This article summarized the present and previous
ocean environment monitoring research and development status using WSN and described the general
architecture of WSN-based ocean environment systems. This paper depicts the comprehensive literature of
systems as well as technologies related to WSN and their targeted parameters for ocean environmental
monitoring. This article also summarized the MEMS sensor technology used for ocean environment monitoring.
The MEMS sensor technology also has become proven technology for low power consumption, low cost, and
high sensitivity with embedded processing and wireless networking capability for both overwater and
underwater applications as compared to other conventional sensor technology. There are numerous projects
available that use the most advanced technologies, such as WSN and MEMS with the buoy, to monitor the
quality of water and the ocean environment.
Some of the other efforts are also going on in the domains of current/wave monitoring, and fish
farm/coral reef monitoring. Numerous research works are targeted at certain technologies or devices such as
data analysis techniques, data transmitting mechanisms, routing protocols, harvesting/energy-saving devices,
and buoys for ocean environment monitoring. However, it has the main challenge of different testing places.
Nearly half of them are implemented or experimented with under the river or actual marine environments,
while another part is under indoor environments with lab experimental setup. Some of them have
experimented in lakes and small ponds or outdoor pools, and numerous are tested through simulations on
several software tools. Although wireless communication mostly utilizes ZigBee or/and GPRS, some of the
systems are used for underwater acoustic communication. There are mainly two aspects of energy
management challenges: using alternative renewable energy sources and reducing energy consumption.
Reduction in energy consumption needs to develop advanced routing protocols as well as optimization
network topologies. However, several researchers deliberated other options for energy harvesting consisting
of ocean currents, waves, wind, and solar as alternative renewable energy sources.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are sincerely thankful to the whole administration of Manipal University Jaipur, India
for providing all the facilities, constant support, and encouragement for this work. This the research did not
receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Jai Prakash Mishra is a Research Scholar at Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur,
India. He received his M.Tech degree in Embedded System in 2014 from Jaipur National
University, Jaipur, India. His research interests include IoTs and WSN. Currently, he is
working on an “IoT Based Sea Wave Turbulence Monitoring System using Multiple MEMS
Sensors”. He can be contacted at email: mishra.jaiprakash20@gmail.com.
Kulwant Singh is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan,
India since July 2017. He is also the coordinator of “FlexMEMS Research Centre (FMRC)”
which is established by him at MUJ. Dr. Singh completed his M. Tech. degrees in Electronics
Design and Technology from the School of Engineering, Tezpur University, Tezpur in 2008,
followed by a Ph.D. in the field of MEMS Design and fabrication from NIT Calicut in January
2015. He has more than 11 years of academic experience and 5 years of R&D experience in a
semiconductor clean room environment for leading-edge MEMS/VLSI technology from
different reputed institutes. He acquired expertise in Micro and Nanoelectronics, device
design, and fabrication of MEMS/NEMS sensors. With the joint resources of NIT Calicut, IIT
Bombay, CSIR-CEERI Pilani, and MUJ, he has successfully demonstrated Prototype
piezoresistive and piezoelectric pressure sensors based on in-house developed technology in
India. His research interest is interdisciplinary to find out innovative and cost-effective
solutions of existing issues in the field of BioMEMS, Energy, and self-powered functional
system. He is a regular reviewer of various journals from publication houses IEEE, IOP,
Springer, and Elsevier. He has published more than 80 research articles, edited one book
published by AIP, USA, and one conference proceeding published by IOP, UK. Additionally,
He has delivered numerous expert lectures on different platforms. Other than his academic and
research activity. At present, he is supervising more than 8 scholars in the area of BioMEMS,
Energy storage devices, and smart microsystem technology. He can be contacted at email:
kulwant.singh@jaipur.manipal.edu.
Himanshu Chaudhary is working as an Associate Professor, in the Department
of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan since
2016. He received his M.E. degree in Automatic Controls and Robotics in 2000 from the
Electrical Engineering Department of Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India.
He completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee in
2014 in Robotics. He has around 20 years of teaching and industry experience in Electronics
and Communication Engineering. His research interests include Soft Computing, Intelligent
control, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Control, Automation, Robotics and MEMS Sensors. He
can be contacted at email: himanshu.chaudhary@jaipur.manipal.edu.

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