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A key aspect of Contamination Warning System design is the strategic placement of sensors throughout the distribution network. There has been a large volume of research on this topic in the last several years, including a “Battle of the Water Sensor Networks” (Ostfeld et al., 2008, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 134(6), 556–568) that compared 15 different approaches to solving this problem. This report focuses on the sensor placement methodologies that have been developed by EPA’s Threat Ensemble Vulnerability Assessment (TEVA) Research Team, which is composed of researchers from EPA, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Cincinnati, and Argonne National Laboratory. This team has developed TEVA-SPOT – the Threat Ensemble Vulnerability Assessment Sensor Placement Optimization Tool – a collection of software tools that can help utilities design sensor networks (Berry et al., 2008, User’s manual: TEVA-SPOT toolkit 2.2, EPA-600-R-08-041; US EPA, 2009a, Tutorial threat ensemble vulnerability analysis – sensor placement optimization tool (TEVA-SPOT) graphical user interface, Version 2.2.0 Beta, EPA-600-R-08-147). This report presents case studies using TEVA-SPOT and discusses open challenges for application of sensor network design to large-scale real-world drinking water systems
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Murray, R., Haxton, T., Hart, W.E., Phillips, C.A. (2011). Real-World Case Studies for Sensor Network Design of Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems. In: Clark, R., Hakim, S., Ostfeld, A. (eds) Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection. Protecting Critical Infrastructure, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0189-6_17
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