Observability?Based Sensor Placement Improves Contaminant Tracing in River Networks

Robust optimization of contaminant sensor placement for community water systems

We present a series of related robust optimization models for placing sensors in municipal water networks to detect contaminants that are maliciously or accidentally injected. We formulate sensor placement problems as mixed-integer programs, for which the objective coefficients are not known with certainty. We consider a restricted absolute robustness criteria that is motivated by natural restr...

An Indoor Contaminant Sensor Placement Toolbox for Critical Infrastructure Buildings

Relay sensor placement in wireless sensor networks

This paper addresses the following relay sensor placement problem: given the set of duty sensors in the plane and the upper bound of the transmission range, compute the minimum number of relay sensors such that the induced topology by all sensors is globally connected. This problem is motivated by practically considering the tradeoff among performance, lifetime, and cost when designing sensor n...

Design and evaluation of two distributed methods for sensors placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Adequate coverage is one of the main problems for distributed wireless sensor networks and The effectiveness of that highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. Given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save power of sensors for movement to target location to adequate coverage. In this paper, we apply fuzzy logic system to...

Efficient Sensor Placement in Flow Networks and Sensor Networks

We study the problem of sensor placement for maximum structural fault detection and isolation in systems with a graphical structure. In particular, we consider flow networks and sensor networks. We are interested in placing as few sensors as possible. We get efficient approximation algorithms and exact algorithms for computing a smallest sensor set for maximum structural fault detectability and...