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Published September 18, 2013 | Version v1
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An Indoor Contaminant Sensor Placement Toolbox for Critical Infrastructure Buildings

  • 1. KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus
  • 2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Cyprus University of Technology

Description

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 .

 

This research work has been partially funded by the European Research Council under the ERC Advanced Grant ERC-2011-ADG-291508 “Fault-Adaptive Monitoring and Control of Complex Distributed Dynamical Systems” (FAULT-ADAPTIVE) and by the EC project HOME/2011/CIPS/AG “online identification of Failure and Attack on interdependent Critical InfrastructurES” (FACIES).

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FAULT-ADAPTIVE – Fault-Adaptive Monitoring and Control of Complex Distributed Dynamical Systems 291508
European Commission