Sensor Network Design and Performance in Water Systems Dominated by Multi-Story Buildings

This paper reports on the modeling of CWS sensor network designs for two real water systems. The first system is small and simple and the model has been artificially modified to include multi-story buildings. The second water system is actually dominated by multi-story buildings but its base model does not contain any micro-level detail. Geographical information system (GIS) tools and site-specific information are used to construct and arrange reasonable representations of the high rise buildings into the model. For each water system, EPANET simulations are performed along with public health impacts assessments and sensor network design optimizations. Evaluations are made between the skeletonized models (base models without post-service connection detail) and the multistory building-enhanced models to assess the performance of sensor networks to reduce public health impacts.