Title
A Neyman-Pearson approach to the development of low cost earthquake detection and damage mitigation system using sensor fusion
Abstract
Damage mitigation of critical infrastructures onset of an earthquake is a very important matter. In our work, we developed an earthquake warning and protection system through P-wave sensing that detects earliest onset of an earthquake before damaging ground shaking occurs. Our approach captures P-wave using redundant channels (dual sensors) and minimizes the possibilities of false triggers from harmless, momentary ground shaking. The system comprises a piezoelectric detector and a digital three-axis silicon accelerometer. The core of this study focuses on the detection algorithm using the collected data to decide if an earthquake is occurring. The algorithm is adaptive and is based on a probabilistic approach over a sliding window to maximize the detection of events, keeping the probability of false alarms under a fixed rate. Finally experimental results are provided showing the system meets the expected performance with both artificial and real seismic stimuli. One possible extension of our approach could be implementing geological wireless sensor networks using contemporary smartphones for data acquisition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049954
Electronics, Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
accelerometers,elemental semiconductors,piezoelectric devices,probability,seismometers,sensor fusion,silicon,wireless sensor networks,Neyman-Pearson approach,P-wave sensing,Si,artificial stimuli,contemporary smartphones,damage mitigation system,data acquisition,detection algorithm,digital three-axis silicon accelerometer,dual sensors,earthquake warning,false alarms,fixed rate,geological wireless sensor networks,ground shaking,low cost earthquake detection,piezoelectric detector,probabilistic approach,protection system,real seismic stimuli,redundant channels,sensor fusion,earthquake warning system,embedded system,geological wireless sensor network,microelectromechanical sensor,piezoelectric sensor,real-time seismology
Earthquake warning system,Sliding window protocol,Computer science,Accelerometer,Data acquisition,Communication channel,Sensor fusion,Electronic engineering,Probabilistic logic,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taufique Z. Redhwan100.34
Muneera Chowdhury200.34
Hafiz Abdur Rahman300.34