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Review
. 2015 Mar 25;15(4):7172-205.
doi: 10.3390/s150407172.

Network challenges for cyber physical systems with tiny wireless devices: a case study on reliable pipeline condition monitoring

Salman Ali  1 , Saad Bin Qaisar  2 , Husnain Saeed  3 , Muhammad Farhan Khan  4 , Muhammad Naeem  5 , Alagan Anpalagan  6
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Review

Network challenges for cyber physical systems with tiny wireless devices: a case study on reliable pipeline condition monitoring

Salman Ali et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

The synergy of computational and physical network components leading to the Internet of Things, Data and Services has been made feasible by the use of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs). CPS engineering promises to impact system condition monitoring for a diverse range of fields from healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation to aerospace and warfare. CPS for environment monitoring applications completely transforms human-to-human, human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions with the use of Internet Cloud. A recent trend is to gain assistance from mergers between virtual networking and physical actuation to reliably perform all conventional and complex sensing and communication tasks. Oil and gas pipeline monitoring provides a novel example of the benefits of CPS, providing a reliable remote monitoring platform to leverage environment, strategic and economic benefits. In this paper, we evaluate the applications and technical requirements for seamlessly integrating CPS with sensor network plane from a reliability perspective and review the strategies for communicating information between remote monitoring sites and the widely deployed sensor nodes. Related challenges and issues in network architecture design and relevant protocols are also provided with classification. This is supported by a case study on implementing reliable monitoring of oil and gas pipeline installations. Network parameters like node-discovery, node-mobility, data security, link connectivity, data aggregation, information knowledge discovery and quality of service provisioning have been reviewed.

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Figure 1
Network elements in CPS architecture.
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Figure 2
A typical wireless sensor network setup with central monitoring.
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Figure 3
Cyber physical system applications with interconnecting boundary between cyber and object domain.
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Figure 4
Network communication parameters for cyber physical sensor network architecture.
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Figure 5
Wireless sensor network parameters and issues related to mobility and reconfiguration in a cyber-physical environment.
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Figure 6
A division of cyber-physical sensor network requirements.
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Figure 7
Data processing related programming scope for remote sensor network monitoring.
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Figure 8
Event driven code design abstraction for data sensing model.
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Figure 9
Summary of wireless sensor network based cyber physical monitoring of pipeline infrastructure.
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Figure 10
Optical fiber-based leakage detection mechanism.
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Figure 11
Interacting elements of cyber physical sensor network for infrastructure monitoring.
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Figure 12
Sample pipeline configuration levels for oil and gas transfer.
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Figure 13
Relevant factors for designing CPSN applications.
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