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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2026)

Published: June 15, 2026

Pages: 245-253

Original Article

Proposed Design of a Wireless Communication Network ForWater Management Applications in Mosul City

Firas S. Alsharbaty 1 Fawaz Y. Abdullah 1 Mohammad Tariq Yaseen 1
1 Electrical Engineering, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq
History
  • Received: November 4, 2023
  • Revised: March 26, 2024
  • Accepted: June 14, 2024
  • Available Online: June 15, 2026
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.22.1.23

Abstract

Water scarcity, drought, and population growth accompanying climate change are dangerous factors with serious consequences related to potable water file unless appropriate action is taken urgently to deal with these issues, especially with large populations in the major cities as well as the suburban areas. This work presents an enhanced wide area network for efficient management of the freshwater in the major cities. Hence, it adopts Mosul city as a typical case that contains about 100 residential districts that require 100 sites of water monitoring in the different locations in the city where each site owns three different types of water sensors (water flow, water level, and pressure) in addition to the video surveillance application. The water station sites send the data to the control and monitoring center of the water. The collected data is processed and analyzed by public cloud or private cloud for control and monitoring purposes. The suggested communication network addresses the requirements of the water section applications in terms of monitoring in real-time. This work addresses the WiMAX system as a communication network infrastructure to handle the advantages of resilience, low-cost maintenance, and expansion The suggested network offered excellent behavior in terms of latency (maximum latency is less than 57 msec) and data traffic of the adopted applications.

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