Title
Satellite-Enabled Internet of Remote Things Network Transmits Field Data from the Most Remote Areas of the Tibetan Plateau
Abstract
In this article, we employed a satellite-enabled Internet of Remote Things (IoRT) network as a promising solution to retrieve data in the most remote areas of interest, where public networks are absent. This article presents a system network based on the satellite-enabled IoRT, a new paradigm that defines a network where each environmental monitoring device can autonomously establish a network with a remote data center. The Xingyun satellite constellation was employed for data retrieval on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The monitoring system was mainly composed of a ground Internet of Things (IoT) terminal that was built with satellite transceivers, environmental monitoring devices, and system software. We deployed five of these newly developed terminals in harsh areas to monitor environmental variables, and accordingly, air temperature and relative humidity, precipitation, snow depth, land surface temperature, tree stemflow rate, and photosynthetically active radiation were retrieved with the satellite-enabled IoRT network. Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system network, and the results indicated that the average time delay with and without the packet creation mode reached 32 and 32.7 s, respectively, and the average packet loss rate with and without the packet creation mode reached 5.63% and 4.48%, respectively. The successful implementation of the satellite-enabled IoRT network for the rapid retrieval of monitoring data in remote glacier, forestland, and canyon areas at very high altitudes on the TP provides an entirely new and revolutionary data retrieval means for backhauling data from remote areas of interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22103713
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
satellite-enabled Internet of Remote Things, Tibetan Plateau (TP), extreme area, remote data retrieval
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingying Chen153.20
Minghu Zhang231.41
Xin Li37916.63
Tao Che401.01
Rui Jin500.68
Jianwen Guo600.34
Wei Yang702.03
Baosheng An800.34
Xiaowei Nie900.34