Urban Water Supply Network Monitoring and Management Platform Based on Wireless Sensor Network

Urban water supply network is enormous and complicated but short of large-scale monitoring method at present. The lack of detection for the underground pipelines results in the engineers cannot manage the pipe network effectively. In this case, this paper proposes a new monitoring and management platform for water supply network. This platform comprises the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) data acquisition system and the decision aids system. The former is based on ZigBee communication protocol which can realize the large-scale monitoring task at a very low cost. The latter is a set of softwares in the data center providing decision support such as monitoring nodes clustering and operation analysis for engineers.