Functional scheme of the environment monitoring systems architecture design

Abstract

Design process of the architecture of environment monitoring systems (EMS) gives rise to problems of selection and location of system components: monitoring stations, transit nodes, sensors, information collection centers, antennas, power supply systems, telecommunication and other equipment. Several examples of EMS are: wireless sensor networks, flying sensor networks, lightning discharges location systems, high-resolution GLONASS/GPS receivers networks, geomagnetic field measurement networks, hybrid systems of forecast and search of strong earthquake precursors, ionosphere monitoring systems etc. The main problem of architecture synthesis of the EMS is formation of a set of solutions on locating system components and multicriterial evaluation of each of the solutions. The functional module of the EMS architecture synthesis is an important component of special-purpose support systems of EMS design. In the present work we consider some problems of environment monitoring systems synthesis and propose a simplified functional scheme of the EMS synthesis.