AQUAMON is organized along five major tasks.
- Task 1 will perform the requirements analysis that will precede and guide the full work flow of AQUAMON;
- Task 2 will build on these requirements to achieve reliable and timely communication, tailored for water bodies scales, conditions and signal interference, and to develop APIs that will then be used in the dependability framework;
- The latter will be developed in Task 3, by elaborating on the sensor failure modes to implement corresponding fault detection and mitigation strategies. The work will exploit knowledge on sensor characteristics, developed in Task 1, and knowledge on communication characteristics, including reliability, developed in Task 2. Furthermore, the work will exploit several data processing techniques, including statistical and neural network based ones, to achieve the defined data quality and dependability goals;
- The full dependability platform will then be evaluated in real conditions, in Task 4, to address an existing environmental problem. Using the surveillance and forecast system for continuous hydrodynamics and water quality monitoring deployed in the bay of Seixal, in the Tagus estuary, AQUAMON products’ will be assessed.For the demonstration case, AQUAMON will explore dependability strategies through the joint usage of existing data sources and new monitoring stations, defined for redundancy goals, but accounting for the underlying water processes. Water dynamics numerical models will contribute to define the adequate location for the new stations, along with the choice of communication protocols;
- Task 5 will be dedicated to management activities and to dissemination of the project and its results to the scientific and stakeholder communities.