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1. Introduction: Management of canal networks at the age of information
technology. With the miniaturization of sensors and their decreasing costs,
the paradigm of instrumentation of the built infrastructure and the environment has
now been underway for several years, leading to numerous successful and sometimes
spectacular realizations such as the instrumentation of the Golden Gate with wire-
less sensors a few years ago. The convergence of communication, control and sensing
on numerous platforms including multi-media platforms has enabled engineers to
augment physical infrastructure systems with an information layer, capable of real-
time monitoring, with particular success in the health monitoring community. This
paradigm has reached a level of maturity, revealed by the emergence of numerous
technologies usable to monitor the built infrastructure. Supervisory Control And
Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are a perfect example of such infrastructure,
which integrate sensing, communication and control. In the context of management
of irrigation networks, the impact of this technology on the control of such systems
has the potential of significantly improving efficiency of operations.
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Citation: Georges Bastin, Alexandre M. Bayen, Ciro D'Apice, Xavier Litrico, Benedetto Piccoli. Preface[J]. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2009, 4(2): i-v. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2009.4.2i
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Abstract
1. Introduction: Management of canal networks at the age of information
technology. With the miniaturization of sensors and their decreasing costs,
the paradigm of instrumentation of the built infrastructure and the environment has
now been underway for several years, leading to numerous successful and sometimes
spectacular realizations such as the instrumentation of the Golden Gate with wire-
less sensors a few years ago. The convergence of communication, control and sensing
on numerous platforms including multi-media platforms has enabled engineers to
augment physical infrastructure systems with an information layer, capable of real-
time monitoring, with particular success in the health monitoring community. This
paradigm has reached a level of maturity, revealed by the emergence of numerous
technologies usable to monitor the built infrastructure. Supervisory Control And
Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are a perfect example of such infrastructure,
which integrate sensing, communication and control. In the context of management
of irrigation networks, the impact of this technology on the control of such systems
has the potential of significantly improving efficiency of operations.
For more information please click the “Full Text” above
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