A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems
Speaker: Hock Beng Lim, Talk Thursday, University, Singapore
Date: Thursday, September 10 2009
Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Location: 32-G882
Host: Samuel Madden, MIT CSAIL
Contact: Samuel Madden, x88643, madden@csail.mit.edu
SPEAKER: Dr. Hock Beng Lim
Intelligent Systems Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/limhb
TITLE: 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.
BIO: 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.
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