Sensor Placement for Contamination Detection in Water Distribution Systems

TL;DR

This paper reviews current methods for sensor placement in water distribution systems to improve contaminant detection, discussing objectives, algorithms, and tools used in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of existing approaches, objectives, and optimization tools for sensor placement in water systems for contamination detection.

Findings

Summarizes various objectives for sensor placement.

Reviews common optimization algorithms used.

Highlights available toolkits for testing and comparison.

Abstract

Sensor placement for contaminant detection in water distribution systems (WDS) has become a topic of great interest aiming to secure a population's water supply. Several approaches can be found in the literature with differences ranging from the objective selected to optimize to the methods implemented to solve the optimization problem. In this work we aim to give an overview of the current work in sensor placement with focus on contaminant detection for WDS. We present some of the objectives for which the sensor placement problem is defined along with common optimization algorithms and Toolkits available to help with algorithm testing and comparison.