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Leakages are a major risk in water distribution networks as they cause water loss and increase contamination risks. Leakage detection is a difficult task due to the complex dynamics of water distribution networks. In particular, small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Valerie Vaquet , Fabian Hinder , Barbara Hammer

Drinking water for human health and well-being is crucial. Accidental and intentional water contamination can pose great danger to consumers. Optimal design of a system that can quickly detect the presence of contamination in a water…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Rezvan Nazempour , Mohammad Ali Saniee Monfared , Enrico Zio

Timely leak detection in water distribution networks is critical for conserving resources and maintaining operational efficiency. Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing spatial-temporal dependencies in sensor data, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Qusai Khaled , Pasquale De Marinis , Moez Louati , David Ferras , Laura Genga , Uzay Kaymak

Water distribution networks are a key component of modern infrastructure for housing and industry. They transport and distribute water via widely branched networks from sources to consumers. In order to guarantee a working network at all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Jonathan Jakob , André Artelt , Martina Hasenjäger , Barbara Hammer

Wireless Sensor Network is the essential structure of a water eminence monitoring by means of wireless sensor network technology To scrutinize water quality greater than different sites as a synchronized application an estimable system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-05 V. Karthikeyan , Geethanjali. S , Mekala. M , Deepika. T

In this paper, we provide a mathematical optimization-based framework to determine the location of leak detection devices along a network. Assuming that the devices are endowed with a known coverage area, we analyze two different models.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Víctor Blanco , Miguel Martínez-Antón

This paper explores a variety of strategies for understanding the formation, structure, efficiency and vulnerability of water distribution networks. Water supply systems are studied as spatially organized networks for which the practical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-04 A. Yazdani , P. Jeffrey

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) are a today technology with great practicability in the real world. We focus on describing WSN architecture, regarding usefulness in constructions like structural health monitoring and importance, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Daniel-Ioan Curiac , Ovidiu Banias , Ioan Borza

As essential components of the modern urban system, the health conditions of civil structures are the foundation of urban system sustainability and need to be continuously monitored. In Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), many existing…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-18 Yizheng Liao , Ram Rajagopal

Chlorine, the most widely used disinfectant, needs to be adequately distributed in water distribution networks (WDNs) to maintain consistent residual levels and ensure safe water. This is performed through control node injections at the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Salma M. Elsherif , Ahmad F. Taha

Facing climate change, the already limited availability of drinking water will decrease in the future rendering drinking water an increasingly scarce resource. Considerable amounts of it are lost through leakages in water transportation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Valerie Vaquet , Fabian Hinder , Jonas Vaquet , Kathrin Lammers , Lars Quakernack , Barbara Hammer

Despite recent progress in our understanding of complex dynamic networks, it remains challenging to devisesufficiently accurate models to observe, control or predict the state of real systems in biology, economics or other fields. A largely…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Dominik Kahl , Philipp Wendland , Matthias Neidhardt , Andreas Weber , Maik Kschischo

This paper presents a comprehensive control-theoretic analysis of water distribution network (WDN) hydraulics. Starting from a general nonlinear differential algebraic equation (DAE) model of WDNs with arbitrary topology and network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ahmad F. Taha , Mohamad H. Kazma

Drinking water is a vital resource for humanity, and thus, Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are considered critical infrastructures in modern societies. The operation of WDNs is subject to diverse challenges such as water leakages and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 André Artelt , Marios S. Kyriakou , Stelios G. Vrachimis , Demetrios G. Eliades , Barbara Hammer , Marios M. Polycarpou

This work presents novel distributed data collection systems and storage algorithms for collaborative learning wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In a large WSN, consider $n$ collaborative sensor devices distributed randomly to acquire…

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Water distribution systems (WDS) are an integral part of critical infrastructure which is pivotal to urban development. As 70% of the world's population will likely live in urban environments in 2050, efficient simulation and planning tools…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Inaam Ashraf , Janine Strotherm , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

Coverage is one of the fundamental issues in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). It reflects the ability of WMSNs to detect the fields. Motivated by the existing-enhancing algorithm of traditional 2D WMSNs, a new 3D WMSNs sensing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Shasha Xu , Weijie Lyu , Huilin Li

The quantitative understanding and precise control of complex dynamical systems can only be achieved by observing their internal states via measurement and/or estimation. In large-scale dynamical networks, it is often difficult or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Arthur N. Montanari , Chao Duan , Luis A. Aguirre , Adilson E. Motter

We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Two key issues in MWSNs - energy consumption, which is dominated by sensor movement, and sensing coverage - have attracted plenty of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

In a Networked Dynamical System (NDS), each node is a system whose dynamics are coupled with the dynamics of neighboring nodes. The global dynamics naturally builds on this network of couplings and it is often excited by a noise input with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Augusto Santos , Diogo Rente , Rui Seabra , José M. F. Moura