A prototype on RFID and sensor networks for elder healthcare: progress report
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
PIPENETa wireless sensor network for pipeline monitoring
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
A Fault Tolerant Wired/Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Monitoring Pipeline Infrastructures
SENSORCOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Error-resistant RFID-assisted wireless sensor networks for cardiac telehealthcare
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
PipeProbe: Mapping Spatial Layout of Indoor Water Pipelines
MDM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware
SewerSnort: a drifting sensor for in-situ sewer gas monitoring
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
EWSN'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Wireless sensor networks
RAMP system for proactive pipeline monitoring
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
A wireless sensor network based water monitoring system
Proceedings of the 8h ACM symposium on QoS and security for wireless and mobile networks
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Pipeline-based applications have become the indispensable part of life. Active monitoring and frequent inspections are critical to maintaining pipeline health. However, these tasks are highly expensive using the traditional maintenance systems, knowing that the pipeline systems can be largely deployed in an inaccessible and hazardous environment. In this paper, we propose a novel cost effective, scalable, customizable, and autonomous sensor-based system, called SPAMMS. It combines robot agent based technologies with sensing technologies for efficiently locating health related events and allows active and corrective monitoring and maintenance of the pipelines. SPAMMS integrates RFID systems with mobile sensors and autonomous robots. While the mobile sensor motion is based on the fluid transported by the pipeline, the fixed sensors provide event and mobile sensor location information and contribute efficiently to the study of health history of the pipeline. In addition, it permits a good tracking of the mobile sensors. Using the output of event analysis, a robot agent gets command from the controlling system, travels inside the pipelines for detailed inspection and repairing of the reported incidents (e.g., damage, leakage, or corrosion). The key innovations of SPAMMS are 3-fold: (a) the system can apply to a large variety of pipeline systems; (b) the solution provided is cost effective since it uses low cost powerless fixed sensors that can be setup while the pipeline system is operating; (c) the robot is autonomous and the localization technique allows controllable errors. The simulation experiments described in this paper along with prototyping activities demonstrate the feasibility of SPAMMS.