A Wireless Hydrocarbon Pollution Measuring and Monitoring System

Author

Michalski, Andrzej

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

51

Abstract

The goal of the proposed system is to protect sensitive areas of the country from hydrocarbon pollution with the use of a global system for mobile communications/general packet radio service (GSM/GPRS) accessed from mobile observation points (MOPs). The primary applications of this system are detection of leaks from an underground or aboveground storage tank (UST/AST), monitoring waste water discharge/ monitoring bilge water, monitoring water quality, monitoring groundwater, monitoring oil-water separators, monitoring storm drain effluents, and static soil gas headspace analysis. The basic version of the system is equipped with: a GPS position locator, a contamination probe sensitive to hydrocarbons, and a GSM/GPRS connection with the central www server

Keywords

cellular radio; mobile communication; monitoring; oil pollution; packet radio networks; pollution measurement; radiotelemetry; water pollution measurement; GPRS; GSM; MOP; general packet radio service; global system; hydrocarbon pollution; mobile communications; mobile observation points; pollution measurement; pollution monitoring; wireless system; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Hydrocarbons; Monitoring; Packet radio networks; Pollution measurement; Protection; Water pollution; Water storage; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIM.2007.339543

Filename

4140949