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Conventional Internet of Things (IoT) solutions routinely treat atmospheric and aquatic parameters as isolated domains, neglecting the dynamic physicochemical coupling occurring across the air\u2013water boundary layer. To overcome this domain fragmentation, this study presents an integrated edge-cloud telemetry architecture designed for concurrent, multi-domain environmental monitoring and cross-domain spatial-statistical analysis. The proposed framework employs low-cost, multi-sensor edge nodes integrated with Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) cellular communication, achieving high signal penetration, energy-efficient operation, and direct base-station connectivity without local gateway dependencies. The system continuously acquires atmospheric parameters (temperature, relative humidity, particulate matter PM1.0\/PM2.5\/PM10, ozone O3, total volatile organic compounds TVOC, equivalent CO2, Air Quality Index AQI, and Ultraviolet Index UVI) alongside aquatic indicators (water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen DO, electrical conductivity EC, and turbidity). Telemetry is streamed via Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) to a centralized MySQL cloud database, providing real-time Grafana dashboards, spatial Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) mapping, and automated multi-channel alerting via LINE Notify and email. The architecture was deployed and validated across the Tunghai University aquatic research facility, capturing n = 14,400 synchronized 1-min observations (with an initial raw Packet Delivery Rate of 99.24%). Statistical evaluations accounting for temporal autocorrelation (Neff\u2248892) and False Discovery Rate correction revealed significant cross-domain associations (padj&lt;0.001), notably an inverse association (r=\u22120.782, \u03c1=\u22120.794, \u03c4=\u22120.612) between ambient air temperature and aquatic dissolved oxygen physically consistent with Henry\u2019s Law of gas solubility, an inverse association (r=\u22120.763) between atmospheric humidity and dissolved oxygen, and a positive association (r=+0.789, \u03c1=+0.812) between humidity and aquatic turbidity. First-order partial correlation analysis (rTa,DO\u2223Tw=\u22120.172) confirmed that water temperature serves as the primary thermal mediator of dissolved oxygen depletion. 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