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Sensors 2009, 9, 8579-8592; doi:10.3390/OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Optimal Sensor Location Design for Reliable Fault Detection in Presence of False Alarms Fan Yang 1,2, Deyun Xiao 1,* and Sirish L. Shah 2 1 Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; E-Mail: yangfan@ (F.Y.) 2 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2G6, AB, Canada; E-Mail: slshah@ualberta.ca (S.L.S.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: xiaody@ (D.Y.X.); Tel.: +86-10-6277-3654; Fax: +86-10-6278-6911. Received: 30 June 2009; in revised form: 24 August 2009 / Accepted: 29 September 2009 / Published: 27 October 2009 Abstract: To improve fault detection reliability, sensor location should be designed according to an optimization criterion with constraints imposed by issues of detectability and identifiability. Reliability requires the minimization of undetectability and false alarm probability due to random factors on sensor readings, which is not only related with sensor readings but also affected by fault propagation. This paper introduces the reliability criteria expression based on the missed/false alarm probability of each sensor and system topology or connectivity derived from the directed graph. The algorithm for the optimization problem is presented as a heuristic procedure. Finally, a boiler system is illustrated using the proposed method. Keywords: fault detection; directed graph; reliability; false alarm; missed alarm 1. Introduction Fault detection plays a necessary and important role in large-scale industrial systems for safety issues. Its basis and data source is the measurements from sensors. Measurement technology and sensor quality has progressed significantly in the past several decades, but the problem still exists because not all process variables of concern can