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Understanding and managing large sensor networks

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Publication date2010
Host publicationIntegrating water systems: proceedings of the tenth International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2009, Integrating Water Systems, Sheffield, UK, 1-3 September 2009
EditorsJoby Boxall, C. Maksimovic
Place of PublicationBoca Raton, Fla.
PublisherCRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Pages55-61
Number of pages7
ISBN (print)978-0-415-54851-9
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event10th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry - Sheffield
Duration: 1/09/20093/09/2009

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry
CitySheffield
Period1/09/093/09/09

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry
CitySheffield
Period1/09/093/09/09

Abstract

The water supply industry is trialing a range of sensor network designs for monitoring distributed infrastructure. The paper investigates the performance of such a sensor system deployed to monitor a water distribution network. The study reveals up to one fifth of the data intended to be collected either to be missing or erroneous. Findings reinforce the importance of in-depth design consideration of all aspects of large scale sensor systems, and the necessity for expertise on every detail of the system, or access to a rule set which embeds this knowledge allowing non-specialists to make near optimal choices. First steps towards defining such a rule set is presented here with supporting evidence.