Recently the importance of the management technologies for prevention increases. There are many kinds of pipelines under the ground of cities which have pipelines for waterworks, wastewater, oil, gas, electronic power, communications, heat energy, and so on. And these underground pipelines have different roles in supply the essential resources for citizens of cities and will be more important for citizens increasingly. So we call these pipelines as "LifeLine." By the way, these pipelines do not support their core roles to citizens and we can easily see that pipeline accidents have given inconvenient facts or serious man-made disasters to modern citizens as well. For examples, road settlement and sinkholes, waterworks leaks, pollutions by wastewater and oil, explosions by gas, and so on. Nowadays, we live in times using ICT - sensor technologies. So these environments have been advanced and are probably possible to resolve pipeline management problems using them beforehand in real time. Thus, ICT convergences will encourage us to make new technologies and paradigms on the field of pipeline management.
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Published on 01/01/2014
Volume 2014, 2014
DOI: 10.14257/astl.2014.63.54
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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