  We propose to employ a recently developed IoT-based wireless technology, so
called low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), to exploit their long range, low
power, and inherent compatibility to cloud storage and computing. We create a
remotely-operated minimum-maintenance wireless solution for four major seismic
applications of interest. By proposing appropriate network architecture and
data coordination (aggregation and transmission) designs we show that neither
the low data-rate nor the low duty-cycle of LPWANs impose fundamental issues in
handling a considerable amount of data created by complex seismic scenarios as
long as the application is delay-tolerant. In order to confirm this claim, we
cast our ideas into a practical large-scale networking design for simultaneous
seismic monitoring and interferometry and carry out an analysis on the data
generation and transmission rates. Finally, we present some results from a
small-scale field test in which we have employed our IoT-based wireless nodes
for real-time seismic quality control (QC) over clouds.
