Scientific Results

  • ID:
    publications-4600
  • Type:
    article
  • Year:
    2014
  • Authors:
    Romano, Michele and Romano, Michele and Kapelan, Zoran and Kapelan, Zoran and Savić, Dragan and Savic, Dragan
  • Title:
    Automated Detection of Pipe Bursts and Other Events in Water Distribution Systems
  • Venue/Journal:
    Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • DOI:
    10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000339
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  • Abstract:
    AbstractThis paper presents a new methodology for the automated near-real-time detection of pipe bursts and other events that induce similar abnormal pressure/flow variations (e.g.,unauthorized consumptions) at the district metered area (DMA) level. The new methodology makes synergistic use of several self-learning artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and statistical data analysis tools, including wavelets for denoising of the recorded pressure/flow signals, artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the short-term forecasting of pressure/flow signal values, statistical process control (SPC) techniques for short- and long-term analysis of the pipe burst/other event-induced pressure/flow variations, and Bayesian inference systems (BISs) for inferring the probability of a pipe burst/other event occurrence and raising corresponding detection alarms. The methodology presented here is tested and verified on a case study involving several DMAs in the United Kingdom (U.K.) with both real-life pipe burst/other eve...
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