5th stage

The fifth stage of the project had the following objectives:
1) Evaluation of key control parameters influencing landslide monitoring system placement and reliable operation of monitoring the surveyed landslide prone area. Establishing depths of placement for each landslide measuring point and pore water pressure transducer. Establishing the final, in situ configuration of the wireless landslide monitoring sensor network,
2) Creation a set of matured, tested and functional landslide transducers. Building the electronic circuits necessary to power the landslide measuring points using solar cell power. In situ placement of landslide transducers,
3) Implementation of network communication protocols necessary for data acquisition and transmission. Implementing and perfecting the tasks and specific procedures of the data collection node. Placement and test fitting the data collection node in the surveyed area,
4) Testing data flow communication protocol from WSN to server, in normal and strained conditions. Linking data flow from al WSN components to central server. Debugging, troubleshooting and fixing data flow management procedure issues,
5) Building the data base, gathering information from WSN measurement nodes, data storage, data analysis and data interpretation.

All the five objectives proposed for this stage have been fulfilled. The main goals of the 5-th stage of project were to finalize and perfect the correct operation of the wireless sensor network and its components, test the landslide monitoring system on the field, working in real operating conditions, data collection and interpretation of results.

In order to accomplish this objective, first a complete analysis regarding multiple landslide activation phenomena in Moldavian region was done, with the purpose of identifying the most relevant placement of the landslide measurement and monitoring system. The analysis was successful, and established the exact placement of the landslide surveillance system components.

In this analysis, an area of 30.000 ha was investigated. The areal is situated in two main subdivisions of Moldavian Plateau, named Jijia Plateau and Central Moldavina Plateau. Following this analysis, a decision was made to place the components of the measurement and surveillance system in the north part of Madarjac site, on the right side of Pietrosu valley.

The construction of the landslide sensor was finalized by analyzing the power consumption of each electronic module and implementing a power management module aimed to optimize the power efficiency of the wireless sensor network components. The power management procedure uses inputs from the solar cell, battery state of charge and data flow requests in order to optimize the power efficiency by shutting down modules in controllable time frames to save power.

Communication between network components was implemented considering normal, and fault scenarios that could arise in the evolution of the system. A management procedure was developed in order to identify faults and take actions to maintain reliable data flow to server.

The landslide surveillance system components ware tested in laboratory conditions by using a special purpose test stand that simulates real world condition. The response and performances of the landslide surveillance system were also evaluated and real conditions using WSN components placed in the surveyed landslide area.

The dissemination of results was accomplished by eight published papers in international databases indexed journals or published in proceedings of indexed international conferences.