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Detecting leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDN) using sensors has become crucial towards an efficient management of water resources. The leak detection methods that use this data rely on the correctness of the acquired data. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Krishnan Srinivasarengan , Taha Boukhobza , Samir Aberkane , Vincent Laurain

Optimal sensor placement is essential for state estimation and effective network monitoring. As known in the literature, this problem becomes particularly challenging in large-scale undirected or bidirected cyclic networks with parametric…

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This paper studies the problem of optimal placement of water quality (WQ) sensors in water distribution networks (WDNs), with a focus on chlorine transport, decay, and reaction models. Such models are traditionally used as suitable proxies…

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Real-time water quality (WQ) sensors in water distribution networks (WDN) have the potential to enable network-wide observability of water quality indicators, contamination event detection, and closed-loop feedback control of WQ dynamics.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-11 Ahmad F. Taha , Shen Wang , Yi Guo , Tyler H. Summers , Nikolaos Gatsis , Marcio H. Giacomoni , Ahmed A. Abokifa

Water is a critical resource that must be managed efficiently. However, a substantial amount of water is lost each year due to leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs). This underscores the need for reliable and effective leak detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Daniele Ugo Leonzio , Paolo Bestagini , Marco Marcon , Stefano Tubaro

Leak detection in urban water distribution networks (WDNs) is challenging given their scale, complexity, and limited instrumentation. We present an algorithm for leak detection in WDNs, which involves making additional flow measurements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Aravind Rajeswaran , Sridharakumar Narasimhan , Shankar Narasimhan

Water distribution systems (WDSs) are an important part of critical infrastructure becoming increasingly significant in the face of climate change and urban population growth. We propose a robust and scalable surrogate deep learning (DL)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Inaam Ashraf , André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

Sensor placement for leakage detection in water distribution networks is an important and practical challenge for water utilities. Recent work has shown that graph neural networks can estimate and predict pressures and detect leaks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

Sensor placement for contaminant detection in water distribution systems (WDS) has become a topic of great interest aiming to secure a population's water supply. Several approaches can be found in the literature with differences ranging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Margarita Rebolledo , Sowmya Chandrasekaran , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Coverage is one of the fundamental issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It reflects the ability of WSNs to detect the fields of interest. In a real sensor networks application, the detection area is always non-ideal and the terrain of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Lin Feng , Tie Qiu , Zhenlong Sun , Feng Xia , Yu Zhou

In this paper, we propose a data-driven leak localization method for water distribution networks (WDNs) which combines two complementary approaches: graph-based interpolation and dictionary classification. The former estimates the complete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Paul Irofti , Luis Romero-Ben , Florin Stoican , Vicenç Puig

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), coverage and deployment are two most crucial issues when conducting detection tasks. However, the detection information collected from sensors is oftentimes not fully utilized and efficiently integrated.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruijie Liu , Tianxiang Zhan , Zhen Li , Yong Deng

Determining whether nodes can be localized, called localizability detection, is essential for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This step is required for localizing nodes, achieving low-cost deployments, and identifying prerequisites in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-31 Hejun Wu , Ao Ding , Lvzhou Li

Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), critical to public well-being and economic stability, face challenges such as pipe blockages and background leakages, exacerbated by operational constraints such as data non-stationarity and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Stelios G. Vrachimis , Marios M. Polycarpou

Detecting and localizing leakages is a significant challenge for the efficient and sustainable management of water distribution networks (WDN). Leveraging the inherent graph structure of WDNs, recent approaches have used graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zepeng Zhang , Olga Fink

Mobile wireless sensors are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for monitoring critical infrastructures. An important use case is the discovery of leaks and inflows in pipe networks using a swarm of floating sensor nodes. While…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Martin Haug , Felix Lorenz , Lauritz Thamsen

Large infrastructure networks (e.g. for transportation and power distribution) require constant monitoring for failures, congestion, and other adversarial events. However, assigning a sensor to every link in the network is often infeasible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Arnav Burudgunte , Arlei Silva

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is pertinent to many applications with varied network parameters. Sensor node placement in the application region whether it is indoor or outdoor is a major task as well as plays very remarkable role in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-27 R. Malathi , Alagarsamy , V. Veeramani , RD. Balaji

This paper studies a graph-based sensor deployment approach in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Specifically, in today's world, where sensors are everywhere, detecting various attributes like temperature and movement, their deteriorating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Lakshmikanta Sau , Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Sasthi C. Ghosh

This paper addresses problems on the robust structural design of complex networks. More precisely, we address the problem of deploying the minimum number of dedicated sensors, i.e., those measuring a single state variable, that ensure the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Xiaofei Liu , Sergio Pequito , Soummya Kar , Bruno Sinopoli , A. Pedro Aguiar
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