On the Suitability of 6TiSCH for Wireless Seismic Data Streaming

Abstract

Seismic tomography is a technique for imaging the subsurface of the Earth with seismic waves produced by earth- quakes (passive) or explosions (active). A typical instrumentation deployment involves hundreds or even thousands of equally distributed data-loggers, reading from geophones, that sample typically between 250 Hz and 2000 Hz in a synchronized manner. This data is streamed outside the data-logger network for post- experiment processing. In this letter, we evaluate the suitability of IETF 6TiSCH technology for a standards-based real-time data streaming solution, and highlight the benefits of standardization in this market sector.