Gianfranco Manes
The Midra Consortium, Italy
Title: Real-time gas emission monitoring at hazardous sites
Biography
Biography: Gianfranco Manes
Abstract
This paper describes a distributed point-source monitoring platform for gas level and leakage detection in hazardous environments. The platform, based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture, is organized into sub-networks to be positioned in the plant’s critical areas; each sub-net includes a gateway unit wirelessly connected to the WSN nodes, hence providing an easily deployable, stand-alone infrastructure featuring a high degree of scalability and reconfigurability. Internet connectivity is provided via TCP/IP over GPRS gateways at a one-minute sampling rate. Environmental and process data are forwarded to a remote server and made available to authenticated users through a user interface that provides data rendering in various formats and performs post-processing and multi-sensor data fusion. The platform is designed to provide real-time plant management with an effective, accurate tool for immediate warning in case of critical events, with minimal intrusiveness or obtrusiveness.