Development of cloud-based monitoring system for underground resistivity and soil measurement / Khairunnisa Nabilah Juhari ...[et al.]

Geo-electrical resistivity measurement is one of the
established geophysical methods for evaluating the underground
profile. It provides the detail of electrical resistivity under the
ground which can be utilised to study various application in
engineering, geology and environmental problems. This paper
presents an approach to integrate a normal operating system of a
resistivity meter and soil sensor with the cloud-based monitoring
system. The conventional method used in the monitoring system
is somehow not applicable to all operating devices such as the
need to monitor real-time data that can be accessed over the
internet. Thus, this project proposes the implementation of
Internet of Things (IoT) development tools to develop data
acquisition system (DAQ) for real-time underground resistivity
and soil condition monitoring system. The system was developed
using an open development board that is supported by OpenWrt
Linux distribution which allows the user to fully customise the
system. The real-time data can be monitored from the open
source database platform where the data are displayed and
stored. The development of this system has particularly improved
the feasibility of data monitoring and thus shows the practicality
of the developed system.