Authors
Jonathan W Berry, Lisa Fleischer, William E Hart, Cynthia A Phillips, Jean-Paul Watson
Publication date
2005/5
Journal
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume
131
Issue
3
Pages
237-243
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers
Description
We present a model for optimizing the placement of sensors in municipal water networks to detect maliciously injected contaminants. An optimal sensor configuration minimizes the expected fraction of the population at risk. We formulate this problem as a mixed-integer program, which can be solved with generally available solvers. We find optimal sensor placements for three test networks with synthetic risk and population data. Our experiments illustrate that this formulation can be solved relatively quickly and that the predicted sensor configuration is relatively insensitive to uncertainties in the data used for prediction.
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JW Berry, L Fleischer, WE Hart, CA Phillips, JP Watson - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 2005