Online Detection of Water Contamination Under Concept Drift

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Autores principales: Li, Jin, Malialis, Kleanthis, Vrachimis, Stelios G., Polycarpou, Marios M.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Li, Jin
Malialis, Kleanthis
Vrachimis, Stelios G.
Polycarpou, Marios M.
author_facet Li, Jin
Malialis, Kleanthis
Vrachimis, Stelios G.
Polycarpou, Marios M.
contents Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are vital infrastructures, and contamination poses serious public health risks. Harmful substances can interact with disinfectants like chlorine, making chlorine monitoring essential for detecting contaminants. However, chlorine sensors often become unreliable and require frequent calibration. This study introduces the Dual-Threshold Anomaly and Drift Detection (AD&DD) method, an unsupervised approach combining a dual-threshold drift detection mechanism with an LSTM-based Variational Autoencoder(LSTM-VAE) for real-time contamination detection. Tested on two realistic WDNs, AD&DD effectively identifies anomalies with sensor offsets as concept drift, and outperforms other methods. A proposed decentralized architecture enables accurate contamination detection and localization by deploying AD&DD on selected nodes.
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spellingShingle Online Detection of Water Contamination Under Concept Drift
Li, Jin
Malialis, Kleanthis
Vrachimis, Stelios G.
Polycarpou, Marios M.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are vital infrastructures, and contamination poses serious public health risks. Harmful substances can interact with disinfectants like chlorine, making chlorine monitoring essential for detecting contaminants. However, chlorine sensors often become unreliable and require frequent calibration. This study introduces the Dual-Threshold Anomaly and Drift Detection (AD&DD) method, an unsupervised approach combining a dual-threshold drift detection mechanism with an LSTM-based Variational Autoencoder(LSTM-VAE) for real-time contamination detection. Tested on two realistic WDNs, AD&DD effectively identifies anomalies with sensor offsets as concept drift, and outperforms other methods. A proposed decentralized architecture enables accurate contamination detection and localization by deploying AD&DD on selected nodes.
title Online Detection of Water Contamination Under Concept Drift
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02107