Securing freight trains for hazardous material transportation : A WSN-based monitoring system

• 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.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Inbäddad systemteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Embedded Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

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

Software Technology

Programvaruteknik

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