Abstract
In this work, we address the problem of airborne contaminant sensor placement in high-risk buildings where critical infrastructures are managed and operated, making them possible locations for terrorist attacks (such as governmental buildings and ministries, utilities, airports and hospitals). A new software is presented based on the “Matlab-CONTAM Toolbox” and the CONTAM multi-zone simulation software, to construct multiple scenarios of contamination events and to solve the multi-objective sensor placement problem for minimizing the average and maximum impact risk with respect to the contaminant mass inhaled impact metric. The use of the software is demonstrated in a case-study using the Holmes’s House benchmark. The Toolbox is released under an open-source license at https://github.com/KIOS-Research/ matlab-contam-toolbox .
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Eliades, D.G., Michaelides, M.P., Christodoulou, M., Kyriakou, M., Panayiotou, C.G., Polycarpou, M.M. (2013). An Indoor Contaminant Sensor Placement Toolbox for Critical Infrastructure Buildings. In: Luiijf, E., Hartel, P. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03964-0_16
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