12. SENSORS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEMS

摘要

The chapter describes a study of a distributed system for monitoring important physical and chemical quantities of the environment, including meteorological information. The monitoring system consists of: measurement stations with sensors, communication interface, and system controller with data acquisition, data processing, storage, and presentation. From a technical point of view, it is necessary to know the dynamics of the whole monitoring system and its reliability. The sensors measure air and water quality and other parameters like water levels. Monitoring of infrastructure (road, power and communications networks, sewage systems) is as important as natural environment monitoring for population security. We present a traffic monitoring system as an example of infrastructure monitoring.