G. Abbatantuono, Silvia Lamonaca, M. La Scala, Ugo Stecchi
{"title":"Monitoring and emergency control of natural gas distribution urban networks","authors":"G. Abbatantuono, Silvia Lamonaca, M. La Scala, Ugo Stecchi","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504843","url":null,"abstract":"Natural gas distribution systems play a fundamental role in delivering a primary energy resource toward industrial, tertiary and residential building. These networks assume today an increasing relevance due to growing energy demand and tighter environmental constrains, but they are still operated and managed according to aging practices, without any \"smartness\" given by information and communication technologies. In this paper, a prototypal monitoring and controlling systems has been implemented on the natural gas medium pressure grid feeding the city of Bari (Italy). Results prove that such an application can considerably upgrade the overall reliability and efficiency of the gas distribution process, also assuring the possibility of very fast interventions in case of leakage or breaking of pipes with predictable benefits in terms of personal safety and economic savings.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121859188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Skyhook-based monitoring and control of a steel building under seismic action","authors":"N. Caterino, M. Spizzuoco, A. Occhiuzzi","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504833","url":null,"abstract":"Sky-hook damping is one of the most promising techniques for feedback control of structural vibrations. It is based on the idea of connecting the structure to an ideal fixed point of the space through passive dissipative devices. Herein the benefit of semi-active (SA) sky hook (SH) damping is investigated for seismic protection of a two-story steel frame via shaking table tests. This kind of SA control is achieved implementing a continuous monitoring of selected structural response parameters and using variable dampers. The damping properties of the latter are changed in real-time so as to make the force provided by the damper match the desired SH damping force as closely as possible. To this aim, two prototype magnetorheological dampers have been installed at the first level of the frame and remotely driven by a SH controller. The high effectiveness of the control strategy is proved comparing the floor accelerations and interstory drift in both uncontrolled and controlled configurations. Practical issues about the implementation of the measurement system needed for the monitoring activity are finally discussed.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124527409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Aluisio, A. Cagnano, E. D. Tuglie, M. Dicorato, G. Forte, M. Trovato
{"title":"An architecture for the monitoring of microgrid operation","authors":"B. Aluisio, A. Cagnano, E. D. Tuglie, M. Dicorato, G. Forte, M. Trovato","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504809","url":null,"abstract":"The operation of different energy sources in a MicroGrid (MG) has to be monitored and controlled by means of the Energy Management Systems (EMS) both in the grid-connected and islanded modes. In the first case, the MG can be seen as a single controllable unit by the grid operator whereas in the islanded mode the successful balance between internal load and planned generation is also required. In this paper, the architecture of an experimental MG is described. Modbus TCP/IP is used as the communication protocol in the MG to receive data and send commands to different components within the system, and monitoring by means of cabled signals is performed. Furthermore, in order to efficiently cater for electric and thermal demand, a central EMS is aimed to evaluate different procedures for the day-ahead scheduling of a MG. In particular, operational planning is proposed and applied to a selected configuration of a testbed facility at Politecnico di Bari. Grid-connected as well as stand-alone configurations are tested.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123153259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Casale, L. Spadafina, Alessandro Porcelli, Diego Matrino, Vincenzo Sarcina
{"title":"A water meter reading middleware for smart consumption monitoring","authors":"Antonio Casale, L. Spadafina, Alessandro Porcelli, Diego Matrino, Vincenzo Sarcina","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504814","url":null,"abstract":"The efficient water resource management represents an always more modern and important theme. During last years, debates on water scarcity present on hearth have been quite heated, along with several considerations about the current water supply network inadequacy and obsolescence In fact, timeworn and often bad maintained infrastructures highly contribute to Non-Revenue Water (NWR) increasing. Various water consumption monitoring systems have been proposed taking advantage of the new ICT progresses, above all concerning sensors, connectivity and data processing. This paper covers the state of the art protocols and technologies for remote water metering and reading transmission, focusing on the typical Italian apartment building case study. Anyway, this case can be extended to a quite common context worldwide. Starting from the analysis and the obtained model, a software layer on top of this portion of water supply network is designed to allow third party software to access data and provide different services depending on the stakeholders (householders or water authority). This communication interface, often regarded as middleware, makes the whole monitoring system part of a wide informative network that could be assimilated to those technologies linked to the smart city subject. Finally, a possible smart application making advantage of water consumption dataset and other information and using classification algorithms is presented.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114159856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical modelling of buoyant effluents discharged into a cross flow","authors":"D. Malcangio, M. B. Meftah, M. Mossa","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504838","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on physical modelling of turbulent vertical buoyant jets, discharged into a transversal current and interacting with localized background turbulence. The physical model was developed in the Coastal Engineering Laboratory of the Technical University of Bari. The physical model consists of a sophisticated system that allows to monitor and adjust all the characteristic parameters of both the channel flow (e.g. discharge, flow depth) and the buoyant jets (e.g. flow rate, temperature, salinity). Positively and negatively buoyant jets are realized by discharging water respectively at a temperature and salinity higher than that of the receiving environment. Due to the complexity of the jet-current hydrodynamic phenomena, a set of sophisticated instruments to measure the jet spreading within the cross flow is used. The average jet dilution is measured by (i) four different Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD) for the positively buoyant jet, and (ii) a MicroScale Conductivity Temperature Instrument (MSCTI) of high resolution for the negatively buoyant jet. Whereas, a Nortek Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) system is used to measure the field flow velocities, together with CollectV software for data acquisition and ExploreV software for data analysis. The measured scalar and vector fields will be illustrated in this paper, with the aim to emphasize that a well-set physical model is able to explain the behavior of buoyant jets in an open channel with ambient factors, such as cross flow and vegetation.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129401771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy metering optimization in flour mill plants for ISO 50001 implementation","authors":"G. L. Cascella, F. Cupertino, Cascella Davide","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504810","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an innovative strategy to optimize the energy metering in large and energy-consuming plants such as industrial flour mills. The proposed solution deals with ISO 50001 implementation which represents a critical challenge for many companies because the benefits due to improvements in energy management could be potentially canceled by the costs of an Energy Management System (EnMS). In particular, the Key Performance Indexes (KPIs) monitoring is a crucial activity for several reasons: it is one of the early activities, it affects the measurement quality of KPIs and it deeply impacts the EnMS requirements and, consequently, the investment valuations. The proposed strategy supports the energy managers in the design of the energy monitoring system suggesting the points of the electrical network to be equipped with sensors and monitored. Moreover, the paper describes the results carried out in a real-world application: the energy sensor network of a 1.2MW flour mill plant sited in Italy has been designed and implemented with the proposed innovative solution.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130010122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current state of the dynamic monitoring of the “Chiaravalle viaduct”","authors":"D. Roia, M. Regni, F. Gara, S. Carbonari, F. Dezi","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504822","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes some notable aspects regarding the dynamic monitoring planned for the Chiaravalle viaduct, linking SS76 and airport of Ancona in Falconara, in Italy. The viaduct is 875 m long and consists of four r.c. kinematic chains separated by joints. The deck is constituted by three beams supported by column bent piers constituted by two circular r.c. columns founded on a continuous footing on six concrete piles. The first purpose of the dynamic monitoring is to determine the experimental natural frequencies and mode shapes of the viaduct before a scheduled seismic rehabilitation. Then, comparison of the first results with those obtained after the retrofit of foundation and piers and finally after the substitution of the deck bearing, will contribute to evaluate efficiency of the executed works. Two different inputs are used for the dynamic tests, ambient and traffic vibrations. An Operational Modal Analysis is carried out starting from the collected data, using the Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition technique. Different sensor configurations are used to evaluate the overall behaviour of the viaduct. The Pre Global Estimation Re-scaling method is adopted in order to merge the different parts of mode shapes relevant to each configuration. Results of dynamic tests are interpreted through a 3D Finite Element model of the viaduct. Firstly, a conventional fixed base model is considered, then a model including the Soil-Structure Interaction phenomena is developed in order to improve consistency between numerical and experimental results. The modal parameters obtained by the model including Soil-Structure Interaction are in good agreement with those estimated experimentally.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133581146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An application of the cross-correlation analysis to detect changes in semi-natural grasslands to artificial structures using very high and high resolution satellite data","authors":"C. Tarantino, P. Blonda, M. Adamo","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504844","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on the application of the Cross-Correlation Analysis (CCA) technique for quantifying changes of semi-natural grasslands to artificial structures at different spatial resolutions (grain) on a Mediterranean Natura 2000 site as a further test case of the results reported in [1]. In that work the CCA was applied to detect specific changes associated with agricultural intensification and fires. A semi-natural grasslands layer extracted from an existing Land Cover/Land Use map (1:5000, time T1) was considered as input to the CCA jointly with a Very High Resolution (VHR) WorldView-2 satellite image (2 meters spatial resolution, time T2) and with a High Resolution Landsat 8 OLS satellite image (30 meters spatial resolution, time T2), with T2 > T1, respectively, for the fine and the coarse scale analysis. The results were compared to those obtained by applying a traditional Post Classification Comparison technique to the same reference at time T1 map and an updated at time T2 map obtained by a knowledge driven classification of four multi-seasonal Worldview-2 input images, according to [1]. Also in this case the CCA technique results encouraging offering the possibility to reduce the costs of change detection when the acquisition of multi-seasonal VHR images at time T2 is too expensive or when no archive VHR image is available in the past for comparison between at time T1 and T2 images. The areas of change detected at VHR and HR were quite similar for the specific transition analyzed with larger error values in HR change images.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132913118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. F. Bruno, M. G. Molfetta, M. Mossa, A. Morea, M. Chiaradia, R. Nutricato, D. Nitti, L. Guerriero, A. Coletta
{"title":"Integration of multitemporal SAR/InSAR techniques and NWM for coastal structures monitoring: Outline of the software system and of an operational service with COSMO-SkyMed data","authors":"M. F. Bruno, M. G. Molfetta, M. Mossa, A. Morea, M. Chiaradia, R. Nutricato, D. Nitti, L. Guerriero, A. Coletta","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504837","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous monitoring of coastal areas is a necessary condition for proper coastal activities regulation. Coastal area alterations, even in the short term, in fact, may lead to a significant social change in the development of economic activities and lifestyle in populations living in coastal regions. This paper deals with the development of an integrated operational Earth Observation system aimed to provide a complete monitoring system for both natural and built coastal environments. Three different software engines have been coupled to fully exploit the COSMO-SkyMed images using SAR and InSAR techniques (SPINUA and COSMO-Beach modules) providing also APD corrections computed using numerical weather simulations (NWM module). This allows to automate the entire radar image process chain to obtain a complete picture of the most important phenomena for large and small scale. The implemented system has been widely tested on COSMO-SkyMed images taken within the Map Italy program over two different Italian sites and results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"355 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114835247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Gara, V. Nicoletti, D. Roia, L. Dezi, A. Dall'asta
{"title":"Dynamic monitoring of an isolated steel arch bridge during static load test","authors":"F. Gara, V. Nicoletti, D. Roia, L. Dezi, A. Dall'asta","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504823","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the dynamic monitoring carried out by means of vibration measurements during the standard static load test of a half-through steel arch bridge on the Potenza river. The structural design of the bridge is characterized by some notable aspects: the river crossing is obtained by two coupled steel arches, having a span length around 115 m, and a steel-concrete composite deck sustained by thirty couples of steel hangers; the approaching spans are realized with continuous girders on intermediate supports, having cross section with variable height; the arches are supported on rubber bearing seismic isolators. The vibration measurements were nearly continuously acquired during the loading tests to detect the occurrence of anomalies in the structural behavior. In particular, the global dynamic characteristics of the structure, in terms of modal parameters, were determined using the data set of measurements at specific phases of the load test: first on the unloaded configuration, then on two different loaded configurations and finally after the bridge unloading. Measurements of vibrations due both to the ambient and to the impulse produced by a fully loaded truck passing over a bump, were carried out. The experimental results, in terms of modal parameters of the bridge, are in agreement with the theoretical results obtained with the predictive finite element model developed for design purposes and opportunely modified to account for the real conditions of the bridge during the tests.","PeriodicalId":262720,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114729820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}