An embedded environmental monitoring data collecting system

Regarding the data collection process for a comprehensive automated environmental monitoring and precaution platform, this paper first analyses the key issues and challenges, including setting of monitoring targets, heterogeneity of monitoring equipments, diversity of communication methods, and online monitoring. Based on this, an embedded real-time environmental data collecting system is proposed. The contributions of the paper are as follows: we have designed an embedded environmental data collector which supports three collecting modes; we have proposed a novel integration technique for heterogeneous monitoring devices and an adaptive internetworking approach. The proposed system is a component of a distributed environmental monitoring platform which will be deployed in Guangzhou city.