The main objective of AQUAMON is to develop and validate a dependable monitoring platform in aquatic environments, supported by communication services tailored for that purpose. To achieve this objective, the project will bring together competences on fault-tolerance in distributed systems, WSNs and real-time communication, sensor monitoring and model forecasting. A fundamental idea is to provide a labelling procedure for data quality and combine multiple strategies to achieve dependable data, using different redundancy sources and data fusion techniques, supported by real and virtual sensors.
Specific objectives include:
- Perform a requirements analysis for a generic application scenario, listing all physical constraints and identifying the required sensor characteristics, functional and non-functional;
- Set up a sparse WSN in water environments;
- Define and implement protocols assuring reliable and timely communication;
- Define data processing mechanisms for estimating and improving the quality of raw sensor data;
- Develop a dependable monitoring platform integrating these mechanisms with model-based redundancy-based solutions;
- Test and evaluate the monitoring platform in a real application, jointly using existing and new monitoring stations.