Determination of the impact distance applied on long fuel distribution pipes using wireless sensors and lora radio

This thesis is aimed to determine the source of a sound occurred on solid objects. Such that; It is aimed to detect the position of the sound caused by sudden impact on objects such as water or fuel pipes reaching long distances by using sensors placed at certain intervals on these objects. At the same time, separately synchronized LoRa radios are used for communication between the sensors and the processing center where the data is processed. While a significant part of the work is the positioning of the sound source in solid objects, another noteworthy part has been the work done for the synchronization of LoRa radios and the evaluation of the received signals together. Therefore, the study is about the signal source positioning made by using the sensors working in discrete time. In fact, as the distances between the sensors increase, the positioning accuracy also increases although the longer the distance, the greater the effects of echoes, noise and interference. However, positioning via wireless radio communication data has expanded the positioning ability of its algorithms, and their accuracy has reached a highly reliable level. Therefore, the proposed methods and studies promise to expand the usage areas of positioning applications such as locating a crack in a machine or a problem place in a workshop area.