DYNAMICS OF SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The paper describes system for monitoring important physical quantities of the environment, including meteorological information as well. Natural environment and technical infrastructure (artificial environment) can be consider like a metastable physical system. Monitoring system for environment consists of: sensors and optical cameras, communication interface and system controller with data acquisition, data processing, storage and presentation. Monitoring systems are always distributed systems. Communication channels (electrical and optical cables and wireless channels) play important role in dynamics and reliability of a monitoring system. For users it is necessary to know the dynamics of the whole monitoring system. Monitoring of infra-structure (road, power and communications networks, sewage systems) is as important as natural environment monitoring for population security.