Mobile sensor networks for optimal leak and backflow detection and localization in municipal water networks

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 80, Issue , 2016, Pages 306-321

  Gong, Weijiao ^a   Suresh, Mahima Agumbe ^a   Smith, Lidia ^a   Ostfeld, Avi ^b   Stoleru, Radu ^a   Rasekh, Amin ^a   Banks, M Katherine ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Backflow detection; Leak detection; Localization; Mobile wireless sensor network; Municipal water networks; Source identification; Water distribution systems

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FLOW OF WATER; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LEAK DETECTION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SENSOR NODES; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

BACKFLOW; LOCALIZATION; MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; MUNICIPAL WATER NETWORKS; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DETECTION METHOD; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; NONLINEARITY; PIPE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84962615374     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.02.001     Document Type: Article

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