Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A Low-Cost Sensor Network For Real-Time Monitoring and Contamination Detection in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
A Low-Cost Sensor Network For Real-Time Monitoring and Contamination Detection in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Abstract— This paper presents a low cost and holistic approach stringent regulations and increased attention towards safe-
to the water quality monitoring problem for drinking water guarding water supplies from accidental or deliberate conta-
distribution systems as well as for consumer sites. Our approach mination. There is a need for better on-line water monitoring
is based on the development of low cost sensor nodes for real time
and in-pipe monitoring and assessment of water quality on the fly. systems given that existing laboratory-based methods are too
The main sensor node consists of several in-pipe electrochemical slow to develop operational response and do not provide a
and optical sensors and emphasis is given on low cost, light- level of public health protection in real time. Rapid detection
weight implementation, and reliable long time operation. Such (and response) to instances of contamination is critical due to
implementation is suitable for large scale deployments enabling the potentially severe consequences to human health.
a sensor network approach for providing spatiotemporally rich
data to water consumers, water companies, and authorities. Traditional methods of water quality control involve the
Extensive literature and market research are performed to iden- manual collection of water samples at various locations and at
tify low cost sensors that can reliably monitor several parameters, different times, followed by laboratory analytical techniques
which can be used to infer the water quality. Based on selected in order to characterize the water quality. Such approaches
parameters, a sensor array is developed along with several are no longer considered efficient [1]–[5]. Although, the
microsystems for analog signal conditioning, processing, logging,
and remote presentation of data. Finally, algorithms for fusing current methodology allows a thorough analysis including
online multisensor measurements at local level are developed to chemical and biological agents, it has several drawbacks:
assess the water contamination risk. Experiments are performed a) the lack of real-time water quality information to enable
to evaluate and validate these algorithms on intentional con- critical decisions for public health protection (long time gaps
tamination events of various concentrations of escherichia coli between sampling and detection of contamination) b) poor
bacteria and heavy metals (arsenic). Experimental results indicate
that this inexpensive system is capable of detecting these high spatiotemporal coverage (small number locations are sampled)
impact contaminants at fairly low concentrations. The results c) it is labor intensive and has relatively high costs (labor,
demonstrate that this system satisfies the online, in-pipe, low operation and equipment). Therefore, there is a clear need
deployment-operation cost, and good detection accuracy criteria for continuous on-line water quality monitoring with effi-
of an ideal early warning system. cient spatio-temporal resolution. US Environmental Protection
Index Terms— Water quality monitoring, flat surface sensors, Agency (USEPA) has carried out an extensive experimental
turbidity sensor, multi-sensor system, sensor networks, arsenic evaluation [6] of water quality sensors to assess their perfor-
& bacteria contamination detection. mance on several contaminations. The main conclusion was
that many of the chemical and biological contaminants used
I. I NTRODUCTION have an effect on many water parameters monitored including
Turbidity (TU), Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP),
C LEAN drinking water is a critical resource, important for
the health and well-being of all humans. Drinking water
utilities are facing new challenges in their real-time operation
Electrical Conductivity (EC) and pH. Thus, it is feasible to
monitor and infer the water quality by detecting changes in
because of limited water resources, intensive budget require- such parameters.
ments, growing population, ageing infrastructure, increasingly Given the absence of reliable, in-line, continuous and inex-
pensive sensors for monitoring all possible biological and
Manuscript received December 19, 2013; revised March 7, 2014; accepted chemical contaminants, our approach is to measure physico-
March 20, 2014. Date of publication April 10, 2014; date of current version
July 1, 2014. This work was supported in part by the European Research chemical water parameters that can be reliably monitored with
Council through the ERC Advanced Grant Fault-Adaptive and in part by the low cost sensors and develop low cost networked embedded
European Project Effinet under Grant FP7-ICT-2011-8-31855. The associate systems (sensor nodes) as well as contamination detection
editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication
was Dr. M. R. Yuce. algorithms to fuse these multi-sensor data in order to infer
T. P. Lambrou, C. G. Panayiotou, and M. M. Polycarpou are with the KIOS possible contamination events. Even though this approach
Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, Department of Elec- may suffer from some false alarms, it can be compen-
trical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 2102, Cyprus
(e-mail: faniseng@ucy.ac.cy; christosp@ucy.ac.cy; mpolycar@ucy.ac.cy). sated/eliminated by the large scale deployment and the possi-
C. C. Anastasiou is with the Department of Civil Engineering, Frederick bility of correlating the decisions from various sensor nodes
University, Nicosia 1036, Cyprus (e-mail: c.anastasiou@frederick.ac.cy). which is the topic of our future work.
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available
online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. There is a clear need for a shift in the current monitoring
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2316414 paradigm and this paper proposes the idea of monitoring
1530-437X © 2014 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.
See http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/index.html for more information.
2766 IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. 14, NO. 8, AUGUST 2014
the quality of water delivered to consumers, using low cost, based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology. In [29]
low power and tiny in-pipe sensors. The main contribution a sensor node is developed for monitoring salinity in ground
of this paper is the design and development of a low cost waters as well as the water temperature in surface waters.
system that can be used at the premises of consumers to In [33] and [38], the authors have developed a WSN and an
continuously monitor qualitative water parameters and fuse energy harvesting system (based on a solar panel) to monitor
multi-parametric sensor response in order to assess the water nitrate, ammonium and chloride levels in rivers and lakes.
consumption risk. In particular, the contributions regarding Energy harvesting techniques along with hibernation methods
the low cost system is the design and development of low play an important role in extending the lifetime of sensor
cost networked embedded systems as well as optical sensors nodes. A survey on energy harvesting for WSNs is provided
(turbidity) for water quality monitoring, the development of in [39] and [40]. Finally, in [34] an autonomous boat equipped
event detection algorithms using fusion techniques and the with water sensors is proposed to collect samples from lakes
experimental evaluation and validation of system performance using the A∗ search algorithm. More efficient navigation
in various concentrations of microbiologically (E.coli) and algorithms for a group of boats with obstacle avoidance are
chemically (Arsenic) contaminated drinking water. presented in [35]–[37].
The remaining of this paper is organized as follows. Next, we provide a number of academic and commercial
Section II reviews related work. Section III presents the efforts aim to develop hardware and software platforms for
methodology and justification for the selection of water quality real-time monitoring of the water distribution systems. In [41]
parameters to be monitored. Section IV presents the system a WSN is proposed to monitor hydraulic parameters in order to
design and the experimental implementation of the hardware detect events such as leaks, pipe bursts. A cost effective multi-
and software modules. Section V validates the performance sensor probe (Endetec KAPTA 3000-AC4) for monitoring
of the developed system and finally the paper concludes chlorine, conductivity and pressure without any event detection
with Section VI. algorithms has been proposed by Endetec [42] in 2012. Finally,
in [43] an optical interferometric sensor along with an event
II. R ELATED W ORK detection algorithm to monitor refractive index aberrations in
A preliminary version of this article has appeared in [2]. water has been developed.
In this article, we present an improved hardware platform, Apart from the on going research towards the design and
develop a new advanced contamination event detection algo- development of sensors and microsystems another parallel
rithm and provide an experimental evaluation and validation research direction is that of the development of software and
of system and event detection algorithms in the presence of algorithms for the detection of water quality anomalies and
real microbiological and chemical contamination events. contamination events. A thorough survey on recent advances
A limited number of on-line, reagent-free water monitor- in this area is provided in [30]. A limited number of event
ing systems are commercially available [7] (e.g. Hach HST detection software is commercially available (Hach Event
GuardianBlue [8], J-MAR BioSentry [9], etc), but these sys- Monitor [8], BlueBox [10]). A currently freely available tool
tems are bulky (sensors are installed in flow cells located in is CANARY software [11] developed at Sandia National
cabinets) and remain cost prohibitive for large scale deploy- Laboratories in collaboration with the USEPA. CANARY
ments (cost tens of thousands of dollars per unit). It is indicates possible contamination events by using a range of
worth mentioning that cost is mostly attributed not to sensing mathematical and statistical techniques to identify the onset
probes but to instrumentation-automation controllers (analyz- of anomalous water quality incidents from online raw sensor
ers) and panels. Such systems can take frequent samples data. Other event detection and data validation methodologies
of the water quality at a very limited number of locations. are given in [31] and references therein.
However, substantial proportion of contamination problems is
attributable to problems within distribution systems and due
III. M ETHODS
to the limited spatio-temporal sampling, it is impossible for
the water companies and consumers to know the quality of Drinking water quality standards are determined according
potable water delivered to consumer households. to World Health Organization (WHO) [12] guidelines for
A number of bare multi-parametric sensor arrays have been drinking-water quality as well as other pertinent organizations
developed and presented in the literature based on various (i.e. EU [13], USEPA [14]). These organizations set the stan-
sensor technologies. A recent review on multi-parametric dards for drinking water quality parameters and indicate which
solid-state sensors for water quality is given [3]. A chemical microbiological, chemical and indicator parameters must be
sensor array for water quality monitoring based on thick- monitored and tested regularly in order to protect the health
film technology is presented in [24], [25], [26], and [27], of the consumers and to make sure the water is wholesome
these sensors are very low cost, though they have limited life- and clean.
time (few months) and require a conventional glass reference For the developed system, the selection of the physico-
electrode to operate accurately. Along similar lines, a multi- chemical parameters to be monitored was based on exten-
parametric sensor array based on semiconductor ruthenium sive scientific literature review [6], [16], [17], and [18] on
oxide nanostructures is presented in [3] and [28]. the relation between certain physicochemical parameters and
In addition, several water monitoring microsystems (sensor chemical or biological contaminations that present in water.
nodes) have been developed for large scale water monitoring Table I enumerates the suggested parameters to be monitored
LAMBROU et al.: LOW-COST SENSOR NETWORK FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING AND CONTAMINATION DETECTION 2767
Fig. 4. The first stage of analog signal conditioning circuitry. (a) Turbidity
preamplifier. (b) Conductivity preamplifier. (c) ORP preamplifier. (d) pH
preamplifier. (e) Temp.
TABLE II
S PECIFICATIONS AND A CCOMPLISHED P ERFORMANCE FOR E ACH M ONITORED PARAMETER
Note that PAA algorithm does not require any further infor-
mation to execute. 1) Microbiologically (E.coli) Contaminated Drinking
Water: The first experiment considers the case of
V. E XPERIMENTAL VALIDATION microbiologically (E.coli) contaminated drinking water.
In this section we present the results of the experimen- Most E. coli strains are in general harmless to humans, but
tal trials performed to validate the behavior and evaluate some types can cause serious food and water poisoning.
the performance of the developed hardware and algorithms However, the presence of E.coli is used to indicate that
on intentional contamination events. The experimental setup other pathogenic organisms may be present (often of faecal
consists of the sensor node (central measurement node) that origin). According to WHO guidelines & EU Drinking Water
takes samples every 5s from potable water flowing through Directive E.coli parametric value is 0 CFU/100mL.
a flow cell. Intentional contamination of two important con- Fig. 7(a) presents the measurements received using the
taminants (escherichia coli bacteria and arsenic) of various developed sensor node when the following concentrations of
concentrations was injected at discrete time intervals and the E.coli were injected: 5x10−2, 5x10−1, 5x100, 5x101, 5x103,
performance of the event detection algorithms is evaluated on 5x104, 1x107 CFU/mL. It is evident that TU and EC sensors
real time. Escherichia coli bacteria and arsenic contamination responded well when microbiological contaminants injected
in drinking water is very severe problem causing serious in chlorinated potable water. ORP sensors has responded
poisoning to large numbers of people all over the world [18]. with delay and pH sensor has a spiky type of response.
LAMBROU et al.: LOW-COST SENSOR NETWORK FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING AND CONTAMINATION DETECTION 2771
VI. C ONCLUSION
In this article, the design and development of a low cost
sensor node for real time monitoring of drinking water quality
at consumer sites is presented. The proposed sensor node
consist of several in-pipe water quality sensors with flat
measuring probes. Unlike commercially available analyzers,
the developed system is low cost, low power, lightweight and
capable to process, log, and remotely present data. Moreover,
contamination event detection algorithms have been developed
and validated to enable these sensor nodes to make deci-
sions and trigger alarms when anomalies are detected. Such
implementation is suitable for large deployments enabling a
Fig. 8. Experiments with Heavy metals (As) contaminated water. sensor network approach for providing spatiotemporally rich
(a) Sensors responses to Heavy metal (As). (b) Heavy metals (As) conta-
mination detection. data to water consumers, water companies and authorities.
In the future, we plan to investigate the performance of the
event detection algorithms on other types of contaminants
Fig. 7(b) presents the output signals of the Vector Distance (e.g. nitrates) and install the system in several locations of
Algorithm (VDA) and Polygon Area Algorithm (PAA). The the water distribution network to characterize system/sensors
results of Fig. 7(b) indicate that both algorithms miss the response and wireless communication performance in real field
detection of 5x10−2 CFU/mL because sensors responses were deployments. Finally, we plan to investigate network-wide
very close to background levels (no anomalies occurred). It fusion/correlation algorithms to assess water quality over the
should be noted that the performance of PAA algorithm is entire water distribution system.
better and given that it utilizes less information, PAA algorithm
is better than the VDA algorithm. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
2) Chemically (Arsenic) Contaminated Drinking Water: The authors would like to thank their colleagues
The second experiment considers the case of chemically Dr. E. Kastanos and Dr. M. Stylianou for the preparation and
(Arsenic) contaminated drinking water. Water contamination testing of E.coli and Arsenic contaminated water samples.
by toxic heavy metals and especially arsenic contamination
is a common problem encountered in many countries due R EFERENCES
to undue deposition of mining, agricultural, industrial and [1] T. P. Lambrou, C. C. Anastasiou, and C. G. Panayiotou, “A nephelo-
urban wastes in water resources. Arsenic is known to affect metric turbidity system for monitoring residential drinking water qual-
negatively the mental and central nervous system function, to ity,” in Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics.
New York, NY, USA: Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp. 43–55.
damage the blood composition, lungs, kidneys, liver, and other [2] T. P. Lambrou, C. G. Panayiotou, and C. C. Anastasiou, “A low-cost
vital organs, as well as it contributes to certain neurological system for real time monitoring and assessment of potable water quality
degenerative processes and causes skin cancer. According to at consumer sites,” in Proc. IEEE Sensors, Oct. 2012, pp. 1–4.
[3] S. Zhuiykov, “Solid-state sensors monitoring parameters of water quality
WHO guidelines & EU Drinking Water Directive Arsenic for the next generation of wireless sensor networks,” Sens. Actuators B,
parametric value is 10μg/L. Chem., vol. 161, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2012.
Fig. 8(a) presents the measurements received using the [4] A. Aisopou, I. Stoianov, and N. Graham, “In-pipe water quality mon-
itoring in water supply systems under steady and unsteady state flow
developed sensor node when the following concentrations of conditions: A quantitative assessment,” Water Res., vol. 46, no. 1,
Arsenic were injected: 5, 10, 25, 50, 125, 500, 1000 μg/L. pp. 235–246, 2012.
Arsenic solutions created from a standard solution of [5] S. Panguluri, G. Meiners, J. Hall, and J. G. Szabo, “Distribution system
water quality monitoring: Sensor technology evaluation methodology
1000mg/L As. Unfortunately, almost all sensors did not and results,” U.S. Environ. Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA,
respond at low arsenic contamination. However, at concen- Tech. Rep. EPA/600/R-09/076, 2009.
2772 IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. 14, NO. 8, AUGUST 2014
[6] J. Hall et al., “On-line water quality parameters as indicators of [33] J. V. Capella, A. Bonastre, R. Ors, and M. Peris, “A wireless sensor
distribution system contamination,” J. Amer. Water Works Assoc., vol. 99, network approach for distributed in-line chemical analysis of water,”
no. 1, pp. 66–77, 2007. Talanta, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 1789–1798, 2010.
[7] M. V. Storey, B. Gaag, and B. P. Burns, “Advances in on-line drinking [34] G. Tuna, O. Arkoc, and K. Gulez, “Continuous monitoring of water
water quality monitoring and early warning systems,” Water Res., quality using portable and low-cost approaches,” Int. J. Distrib. Sensor
vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 741–747, Jan. 2011. Netw., vol. 2013, pp. 1–11, May 2013.
[8] Hach HST, GuardianBlue Early Warning System Brochure. Loveland, [35] T. P. Lambrou and C. G. Panayiotou, “A testbed for coverage control
CO, USA: Hach Company, 2008. using mixed wireless sensor networks,” J. Netw. Comput. Appl., vol. 35,
[9] BioSentry Contamination Warning System Overview, JMAR, Wyoming, no. 2, pp. 527–537, 2012.
MI, USA, 2006. [36] T. P. Lambrou and C. G. Panayiotou, “Collaborative path planning for
[10] BlueBox Intelligent Water Analytics System, Whitewater Technologies, event search and exploration in mixed sensor networks,” Int. J. Robot.
West Jordan, UT, USA, 2012. Res., vol. 32, pp. 1424–1437, Sep. 2013.
[11] D. Hart, S. McKenna, K. Klise, V. Cruz, and M. Wilson, “CANARY: [37] T. P. Lambrou and C. G. Panayiotou, “Improving area coverage using
A water quality event detection algorithm development tool,” in Proc. mobility in sensor networks,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Syst. Comput.,
World Environ. Water Resour. Congr., 2007. 2006.
[38] J. V. Capella, A. Bonastre, R. Ors, and M. Peris, “In line river moni-
[12] Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, World Health Organization,
toring of nitrate concentration by means of a wireless sensor network
Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.
with energy harvesting,” Sens. Actuators B, Chem., vol. 177, no. 1,
[13] Drinking Water Regulations (No.2), European Communities, Europe,
pp. 419–427, 2013.
2007.
[39] S. Sudevalayam and P. Kulkarni, “Energy harvesting sensor nodes:
[14] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Drinking water standards and Survey and implications,” IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 13, no. 3,
health advisories,” Tech. Rep. EPA 822-S-12-001, 2012. pp. 443–461, Jul. 2013.
[15] M. Yunus and S. Mukhopadhyay, “Novel planar electromagnetic sensors [40] G. Tuna and K. Gulez, “Energy harvesting techniques for industrial
for detection of nitrates and contamination in natural water sources,” wireless sensor networks,” in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks:
IEEE Sensors J., vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1440–1447, Jun. 2011. Applications, Protocols, Standards, and Products. Cleveland, OH, USA:
[16] K. N. Power and L. A. Nagy, “Relationship between bacterial regrowth CRC Press, 2013.
and some physical and chemical parameters within Sydney’s drinking [41] A. Whittle, M. Allen, A. Preis, and M. Iqbal, “Sensor networks for
water distribution system,” Water Res., vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 741–750, 1999. monitoring and control of water distribution systems,” in Proc. 6th Conf.
[17] C. C. Anastasiou, P. Grafias, T. P. Lambrou, A. Kalli, and Structural Health Monitor. Intell. Infrastruct., 2013.
C. Onisiphorou, “Use of holding tanks and their effect on the quality [42] KAPTA 3000-AC4 Product Technical Datasheet, KAPTA, Boulder, CO,
of potable water in households; The case study of Cyprus,” in Proc. USA, 2014.
Protection Restoration Environ. XI, 2012, pp. 1–10. [43] B. H. Tangena et al., “A novel approach for early warning of drinking
[18] J. De Zuane, Handbook of Drinking Water Quality. New York, NY, water contamination events,” in Proc. Water Contaminat. Emergencies
USA: Wiley, 1997. Conf., 2011, pp. 13–31.
[19] T. P. Lambrou, A Technical Report for Water Qualitative and Quantita-
tive Sensors. Nicosia, Cyprus: Univ. Cyprus, 2011.
[20] A. Whelan and F. Regan, “Antifouling strategies for marine and riverine Theofanis P. Lambrou (S’05–M’12) is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at KIOS
sensors,” J. Environ. Monitor., vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 880–886, 2006. Research Center, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. He received the
[21] J. Genser and K. Efimenko, “Recent development in superhydrophobic Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National
surfaces and their relevance to marine fouling: A review,” Biofouling, Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 2004, and the Ph.D.
vol. 22, nos. 5–6, pp. 339–360, 2006. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cyprus in 2011.
[22] A. J. Scardino, H. Zhang, D. J. Cookson, R. N. Lamb, and R. de Nys, His research interests include wireless sensor networks, sensor technologies
“The role of nano-roughness in antifouling,” Biofouling, vol. 25, no. 8, and signal conditioning, sensors, instrumentation and embedded networked
pp. 757–767, 2009. systems design, water monitoring, decision algorithms, cooperative control
[23] Flat Surface Operating Principles, Sensorex Corporation, Garden Grove, for distributed robotic systems, and motion planning for multirobot systems.
CA, USA, 2013.
[24] M. Sophocleous, M. Glanc, Monika, J. Atkinson, and E. Garcia-Breijo,
“The effect on performance of fabrication parameter variations of Christos C. Anastasiou received the B.S. and M.E. degrees in environmental
thick-film screen printed silver/silver chloride potentiometric reference engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, and the
electrodes,” Sens. Actuators A, Phys., vol. 197, pp. 1–8, Aug. 2013. Ph.D. degree in civil engineering (environmental systems analysis) from North
[25] J. Atkinson, J. M. Glanc, M. Prakorbjanya, M. Sophocleous, R. Sion, Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. He is currently the Chair-
and E. Garcia-Breijo, “Thick film screen printed environmental and man of the Department of Civil Engineering, Frederick University, Nicosia,
chemical sensor array reference electrodes suitable for subterranean and Cyprus. His research focuses on mathematical programming/optimization and
subaqueous deployments,” Microelectron. Int., vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 92–98, the development of decision support systems, especially as these apply to
2013. wastewater treatment and reuse, and agricultural waste management.
[26] R. M. Manez, J. Soto, E. G. Breijo, J. I. Civera, and E. G. Morant,
“System for determining water quality with thick-film multisensor,” in
Proc. Spanish Conf. Electron Devices, Feb. 2005, pp. 607–610. Christos G. Panayiotou (M’94–SM’06) is the Deputy Director of the KIOS
[27] R. Martinez-Manez, J. Soto, E. García-Breijo, L. Gil, J. Ibanez, and Research Center and an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer
E. Gadea, “A multisensor in thick-film technology for water quality Engineering with the University of Cyprus. He received the B.Sc. and
control,” Sens. Actuators A, Phys., vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 589–595, 2005. Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University
[28] S. Zhuiykov, D. O’Brien, and M. Best, “Water quality assessment by of Massachusetts at Amherst, in 1994 and 1999, respectively, and the M.B.A.
integrated multi-sensor based on semiconductor RuO2 nanostructures,” degree from the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts,
Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 20, no. 9, p. 095201, 2009. in 1999. His research interests include distributed control systems, wireless,
[29] P. Corke, T. Wark, R. Jurdak, H. Wen, P. Valencia, and D. Moore, ad hoc and sensor networks, computer communication networks, optimization
“Environmental wireless sensor networks,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 98, no. 11, and control of discrete-event systems, and fault tolerant systems.
pp. 1903–1917, Nov. 2010.
[30] S. McKenna, W. Mark, and K. Katherine, “Detecting changes in water
quality data,” J. Amer. Water Works Assoc., vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 74–85, Marios M. Polycarpou (M’92–SM’98–F’06) is the Director of the KIOS
2008. Research Center and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with
[31] A. Jonathan, M. Housh, L. Perelman, and A. Ostfeld, “A dynamic the University of Cyprus. He received the B.A. degree in computer science
thresholds scheme for contaminant event detection in water distribution and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, USA,
systems,” Water Res., vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1899–1908, 2013. and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University
[32] C. Jimenez-Jorquera, J. Orozco, and A. Baldi, “ISFET based microsen- of Southern California, USA. His teaching and research interests include
sors for environmental monitoring,” Sensors, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 61–83, intelligent systems and control, adaptive and cooperative control systems,
2010. computational intelligence, fault diagnosis, and distributed agents.