| Title: | Realtime Gas Emission Monitoring at Hazardous Sites Using a Distributed Point-Source Sensing Infrastructure |
| Author(s): | Manes G; Collodi G; Gelpi L; Fusco R; Ricci G; Manes A; Passafiume M; |
| Address: | "Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), Universita di Firenze, via Santa Marta 3 50139 Firenze, Italy. gianfranco.manes@unifi.it. Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), Universita di Firenze, via Santa Marta 3 50139 Firenze, Italy. giovanni.collodi@unifi.it. Eni Spa; Piazzale Enrico Mattei, 1 00144 Roma, Italy. leonardo.gelpi@eni.com. Eni Spa; Piazzale Enrico Mattei, 1 00144 Roma, Italy. rosanna.fusco@eni.com. Eni Spa; Piazzale Enrico Mattei, 1 00144 Roma, Italy. giuseppe.ricci@eni.com. Netsens Srl, via S.Pertini 93 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy. antonio.manes@netsens.it. Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), Universita di Firenze, via Santa Marta 3 50139 Firenze, Italy. marco.passafiume@unifi.it" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1424-8220 (Electronic) 1424-8220 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "This paper describes a distributed point-source monitoring platform for gas level and leakage detection in hazardous environments. The platform, based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture, is organised into sub-networks to be positioned in the plant's critical areas; each sub-net includes a gateway unit wirelessly connected to the WSN nodes, hence providing an easily deployable, stand-alone infrastructure featuring a high degree of scalability and reconfigurability. Furthermore, the system provides automated calibration routines which can be accomplished by non-specialized maintenance operators without system reliability reduction issues. Internet connectivity is provided via TCP/IP over GPRS (Internet standard protocols over mobile networks) gateways at a one-minute sampling rate. Environmental and process data are forwarded to a remote server and made available to authenticated users through a user interface that provides data rendering in various formats and multi-sensor data fusion. The platform is able to provide real-time plant management with an effective; accurate tool for immediate warning in case of critical events" |
| Keywords: | Environmental Monitoring/*methods Gases/*analysis Internet User-Computer Interface Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis *Wireless Technology VOC monitoring photoionization detectors wireless sensor networks; |
| Notes: | "MedlineManes, Gianfranco Collodi, Giovanni Gelpi, Leonardo Fusco, Rosanna Ricci, Giuseppe Manes, Antonio Passafiume, Marco eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Switzerland 2016/01/26 Sensors (Basel). 2016 Jan 20; 16(1):121. doi: 10.3390/s16010121" |
