Problem-Driven and Technology-Enabled
Solutions for Safer Communities
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The Case of Stormwater Management in the Illawarra-
Shoalhaven Region (NSW, Australia)
Johan Barthelemy, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Bilal Arshad,
Cormac Fay, Hugh Forehead, Nathanael Hutchison,
Umair Iqbal, Yan Li, Yan Qian, and Pascal Perez
Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................... 1290
Philosophy: Public and Open-Source, Privacy Compliance, and Community
Consultation ..................................................................................... 1291
Deployment of a Regional, Open, and Free-to-Use LoRaWAN Network .................... 1292
LoRaWAN Network Topology and Deployment in the Illawarra ......................... 1295
Design of an Interoperable IoT Architecture ................................................... 1296
AIoT and Edge Computing for Early Warning Systems ....................................... 1297
Culvert Blockage Detection ................................................................ 1298
Estuaries and Lagoon Management ........................................................ 1300
Environmental Monitoring: Quality Watch, Pollution Stop, and iOyster ..................... 1302
Gross Pollutant Traps Monitor .............................................................. 1304
Water Quality Monitor ...................................................................... 1305
Low-Cost (Physicochemical) Sensing of Water Quality ................................... 1306
Conclusion and Future Work ............................................................... 1307
Live Data Informing Simulation: FloodAware ................................................. 1308
GAMA Platform ............................................................................ 1309
Modeling Flooding Events .................................................................. 1309
The FloodAware Model ..................................................................... 1310
Algorithms .................................................................................. 1311
Data .......................................................................................... 1311
Calibration ................................................................................... 1312
Future Work and Integrations ............................................................... 1313
Conclusion ...................................................................................... 1313
References ...................................................................................... 1314
J. Barthelemy (*) · M. Amirghasemi · B. Arshad · C. Fay · H. Forehead · N. Hutchison ·
U. Iqbal · Y. Li · Y. Qian · P. Perez
SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
e-mail: johan@uow.edu.au; mehrdad@uow.edu.au; bilal@uow.edu.au; cfay@uow.edu.au;
hughf@uow.edu.au; nhutchis@uow.edu.au; ui010@uowmail.edu.au; liyan@uow.edu.au;
yq978@uowmail.edu.au; pascal@uow.edu.au
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