A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring

See, C.H.; Horoshenkov, K.V.; Tait, S.J.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A.; Hu, Y.F.; Elkhazmi, E.A.; Gardiner, J.G.

Abstract

Blockages in sewers are major causes of both sewer flooding and pollution. Water companies which fail to tackle this problem face hefty fines and high operational costs if they unsuccessful to provide a practical solution to prevent flooding. As a result, the detection of sewer condition is routinely required to inform on the best course of action to eliminate this critical problem. This paper presents a novel low cost wireless sensor technology to detect blockages proactively, and feed these event data back to a central control room. The practical deployment of the proposed WSN in an urban area will be demonstrated. In addition, the challenges of this technology in a field trial and the recorded data in terms of the sensor and communication reliability will be addressed.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009)
• Start Date: Dec 7, 2009
• End Date: Dec 10, 2009
• Acceptance Date: Oct 19, 2009
• Online Publication Date: Jan 19, 2010
• Publication Date: 2009-12
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 731-734
• Series ISSN: 2165-4727; 2165-4743
• Book Title: 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference
• ISBN: 9781424428014
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/apmc.2009.5384245
• Keywords: wireless sensor networks, WSN
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1871478