Development of environmental wireless sensor with educational and preservationist purposes
This paper presents the initial steps of the research in the context of an ongoing project entitled Water Quality. The activities are being developed at the IFRS Porto Alegre Campus - Brazil, in cooperation with CÉGEP de Sherebrooke - Canada, in which a multidisciplinary team is working to develop a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to be used in Computer Science and Environmental Management courses. The main goal is to monitor water quality via the Internet in some streams around the City of Porto Alegre to better understand the impact of society on this urban environment by measuring, recording, and transmitting information about water parameters at each stream monitoring site.