This powerpoint presentation presents a study to allocate sensors throughout a system with the
objectives of:
detecting contamination events as early as possible;
minimizing the affected population;
minimizing the contaminated water volume; and,
maximizing detection likelihood. Project challenges included:
define contamination events
- can happen any time at any location, and
can happen at one location and multiple locations at
the same time;
sensor locations
- many combinations, and
allocate k sensors from n nodes; how many possible contamination events
- huge number for a small system, and theoretically infinite;
solution space
- huge to astronomical combination,
e.g. for 1000 nodes to have 5, 10 and 20 sensors, and
possible solutions include 8.2x1012, 2.6x1023, and 3.4x1041. Battle of Water Sensors Network (BWSN) is presented, along with BWSN design objectives, formulation, network solutions, network comparisons, and practical tips. Includes tables, figures.