Placing sensors in sewer networks: A system to pinpoint new cases of coronavirus

We consider a proposed system that would place sensors in a number of wastewater manholes in a community in order to detect genetic remnants of SARS-Cov-2 found in the excreted stool of infected persons. These sensors would continually monitor the manhole’s wastewater, and whenever virus remnants ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nourinejad, Mehdi, Berman, Oded, Larson, Richard Charles
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130487