1st International Workshop on Cyber-physical Systems for Smart Water Networks, SeattleWA, Vereinigte Staaten

Abbrevation

CySWater

Link

http://www.ics.forth.gr/spl/cyswater2015/

City

SeattleWA

Country

United States

Deadline Paper

2015-01-31

Start Date

2015-04-13

End Date

2015-04-13

Abstract

Smart water management has become a key policy for the 21st century. Towards this direction, recent advances in ICT and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are faced with the challenge of transitioning from episodic sampling of water resources to truly pervasive, self–adaptive, and fast–responsive architectures. To yield pragmatic CPS solutions tailored to the complexity of Water Networks (WN), numerous technical and research challenges must be jointly addressed. The front end of sensing requires the support of smart, scalable and secure heterogeneous network architectures, capable of robust, long–term, and unattended operation in RF–harsh underground and underwater environments. Considering the massive volumes of information generated and the necessity of timely failure detection, the necessity of transiting from centralized to hierarchical and distributed approaches for data processing, estimation, learning and storage intensifies. In addition, privacy preserving high–level data analytics is required to empower end–users and allow highly interactive and real–time water treatment and quality management. The objective of CySWater is to bring together researchers and engineers from the fields of Communications, Networking, Processing, and Learning and practitioners from the Water Industry to both share their experiences, as well as formulate novel CPS paradigms that are tailored to the needs of Smart Water Management. Emphasis will be given to CPS–based approaches targeted at the optimization of water treatment and distribution for urban centers, promoting early–warning, situation awareness and actionable intelligence. The multi–disciplinary nature of the proposed agenda attempts to jointly address front–end sensing (e.g., at water treatment plants, water networks) with more abstract representations of information (e.g., user feedback on water quality). As such, CySWater aspires to serve as a forum, where application–driven paradigms of CPS design are defined in the context of joint industrial and urban environments. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: 1. Acquisition, Processing, & Learning: * Hardware, infrastructure, & smart devices, including alternatives on power aspects (e.g., energy harvesting); * Signal sampling, distributed inference (e.g., classification, estimation, learning) & anomaly detection in WN; * Decentralized multi–sensor fusion & data analytics. 2. Communications & Networking: * Underground & underwater CPS; * Mobile underground and underwater agents for large–scale CPS; * Heterogeneous networks & systems architecture; * Networked control & Cyber–Physical security for WN. 3. Analysis, Performance, & Applications: * Testbeds, simulations & field studies; * Performance, including energy efficiency, quality of service & quality of sensing; * Standardization of CPS for smart WN.