You are cordially invited to attend this week's CSE 699/ICS 599/COE 599 following Graduate Seminar:
Date: Wednesday September 18, 2013
Duration: 2:30 - 3:10 pm
Location: 22 - 130
Title: MISE-PIPE: Magnetic induction-based wireless sensor networks for underground pipeline monitoring
Speaker: Mr. Abubaker Bala, Computer Engineering Department
Abstract
Pipelines have remained one of the major and economic means of transporting fluids from one location to another. There have been a lot of research works that focus on detecting and localizing leaks in these pipelines due to the economic loss and environmental pollution that result if the leakages are not detected on time. However these methods are not efficient in detecting these leakages. Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSN) have found numerous industrial applications and is being used to detect and localize leakages in pipelines, besides, this involves huge challenges especially if the pipeline is buried underground, this seminar presents a robust means of applying WSN in underground pipeline leakage detection and localization, this method is the magnetic induction-based wireless networks for underground pipeline monitoring title MISE-PIPE by the Authors. The method involves the use of variety of sensors which are either stationed within or outside the pipeline. Consequently, these sensors collaboratively work together in order to accurately detect and localize leakages in pipelines, This seminar will also discuss the operational framework of the MISE-PIPE, and present research challenges in the design of its system architecture especially in the area of designing robust magnetic induction-based communication channel within the soil.
Short Biography
Abubakar Bala is a computer engineering full-time master’s student in department of computer engineering (COE) King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), he had his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at Bayero University Kano (BUK) in Nigeria, and he is presently a graduate assistant with the department of electrical engineering Bayero University Kano since 2011. His research interests include the study of applications of wireless sensor networks, design of embedded systems and computer network security.
