A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems

ABSTRACT :

In this talk, we will discuss the design and implementation of a
cyber-physical infrastructure for the continuous monitoring of 
large-scale water distribution systems (WDS). The applications of 
such a system include real-time hydraulic data modeling for 
distribution planning, remote detection of pipe leakage, and 
contamination monitoring and mitigation. 

We will explain the design challenges of large-scale Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS) for WDS. A three-phase project to develop and deploy
such a system in Singapore is ongoing. We will provide an overview 
of the system organization, sensor interface board design, sensor 
node design, network and communications, data archive design, GUI 
and web portal. We will focus on the design of the cyber-physical 
middleware framework to support real-time data collection and 
management, in-network collaborative event detection, and hydraulic 
modeling under stringent time and resource constraints.

BIODATA:

Hock Beng Lim is program director of the Intelligent Systems Center
at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his BS
in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and his MS in Management Science and Engineering
from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor
networks and sensor grids, cyber-physical systems, cloud computing,
parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile networks,
computer architecture, embedded systems, performance evaluation,
e-Science and high-performance computing.