Abstract:
This paper considers newly emerging wireless technologies that can be explored for potential
exploitation in the future wireless sensor network solutions for water quality monitoring applications. The
reviewed technologies promise to address long-standing issues that confront existing wireless sensor network
solutions devoted to the monitoring of water quality parameters. Such issues include energy ef ciency
and long-range water quality data communication. These issues can be attributed to the shortcomings of
legacy communication networks commonly combined with wireless sensor network solutions, due to a
discrepancy caused by traditionally powering the sensors nodes using batteries. In particular, some of the
legacy communication networks suffer from short communication range, while others are limited by high
power consumption. These shortcomings provide scope for the utilization of newly emerging solutions
identi ed in this study to advance the eld of a wireless sensor network for water quality monitoring.
To achieve this, three key categories of communication networks have been recommended in this paper,
including their architectural design and network deployment for water quality monitoring applications. Also,
this paper provides future directions on the identi ed communication networks to enhance their performance
for the next-generation of wireless sensor network solutions for water quality monitoring applications.
