A novel communication and monitoring system for integrated utility tunnel

Abstract

This paper attempts to develop a highly reliable security monitoring system for integrated utility tunnel (IUT). For this purpose, a minimum integrated system (MIS) with multiple sensors was designed to acquire the main parameters in the IUT, including air composition, temperature, pipeline pressure, humidity, and shot video/image of the IUT. Then, each MIS was connected to the software system on the ground via a wired network, forming a wire-based IUT communication and monitoring system. Next, three subsystems were designed on Java, including pipeline operation monitoring subsystem, internal environment monitoring subsystem and security monitoring subsystem. The test results show that the data measured by our method agree well with the actual data in the IUT, indicating that the proposed system can effectively monitor various parameters in the IUT. The research findings lay the basis for intelligent monitoring in smart cities, and mark the future trend of IUT management in Chinese cities.