Title

Rule-Based Expert System For Sensor Deployment In Drinking Water Systems For Rural Communities

Keywords

Emergency response plan; Expert system; Rural community; Sensor network; Vulnerability assessment

Abstract

Meeting security objectives for a water utility is a challenging task. The need for thoughtful and comprehensive planning for prevention, mitigation, response and recovery from an event became even clearer after the attacks of 9/11. In response, an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) for water supply systems is now required under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 in the US. As part of this process, each US utility will incorporate the results of their Vulnerability Assessment (VA) into an existing or new ERP. This could result in a need to deploy a suite of sensors in the drinking water networks to replace the traditional manual sampling campaigns. However, rural communities that have very little resources might not be able to come up a solid ERP. The goal of this paper is to present the architecture of a prototype expert system for decision support of sensor deployment in local water utilities. It presents the integration of knowledge acquisition and management for structuring an effective sensor network for rural communities. VA can then be made possible dynamically with respect to the targeted chemicals and microorganisms in the tap water.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

6th International Conference on Environmental Informatics, ISEIS 2007

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84915748674 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84915748674

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