On sensor network segmentation for urban water distribution monitoring

Authors:
Sudarsanan Nesamony;Madhan Karky Vairamuthu;Maria Elzbieta Orlowska;Shazia Wasim Sadiq
Affiliations:
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
Venue:
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Identifying water wastage in forms of leaks in a water distribution network of any city becomes essential as droughts are presenting serious threats to few major cities. In this paper, we propose a deployment of sensor network for monitoring water flow in any water distribution network. We cover the issues related with designing such a dedicated sensor network by considering types of sensors required, sensors’ functionality, data collection, and providing computation serving as leak detection mechanism. The main focus of this paper is on appropriate network segmentation that provides the base for hierarchical approach to pipes’ failure detection. We show a method for sensors allocation to the network in order to facilitate effective pipes monitoring. In general, the identified computational problem belongs to hard problems. The paper shows a heuristic method to build effective hierarchy of the network segmentation.