Securing freight trains for hazardous material transportation: A WSN-based monitoring systemShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: International Defense and Homeland Security Simulation Workshop, DHSS 2012, Held at the International Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference, I3M 2012, Caltek s.r.l. , 2012, p. 52-59Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In recent years the interest in monitoring infrastructures has spread in many application domains, even because of the number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. This important activity can be seen in the general context of critical infrastructure protection such as the freight train meant for hazardous materials transportation. The design of these systems must answer to several issues: low-cost, easiness of installation, interoperability of information sources, security mechanisms. The use of wireless sensor networks emerged in this field as a compliant solution to these issues. In this paper we will present a monitoring system that uses heterogeneous WSN to monitor a freight train transporting hazardous materials. The sensors interact through a security platform in order to share different information. We illustrate some details on the architecture and the software application to prove the feasibility of such system on a real scenario by discussing most significant results about measurement parameters and networks performance. Copyright© (2012) by CAL-TEK S.r.l.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Caltek s.r.l. , 2012. p. 52-59
Keywords [en]
Data integrity, Security protocols, Train protection, Wireless sensor networks, Application programs, Computer simulation, Freight cars, Freight transportation, Hazardous materials, Interoperability, Monitoring, National security, Network security, Security systems, Critical infrastructure protection, Hazardous material transportation, Hazardous materials transportation, Measurement parameters, Software applications
National Category
Embedded Systems
Research subject
Computer Science, Software Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-47765Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84898852298OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-47765DiVA, id: diva2:1427432
Conference
2nd International Defense and Homeland Security Simulation Workshop, DHSS 2012, Held at the International Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference, I3M 2012, 19-21 September, 2012, Vienna
2018-06-052020-04-29Bibliographically approved