Smart meters and water leakage detection : A preliminary study

• The paper deals with water leakage beyond the meter at household level. The automatic leakage detection is emerging as priority task for scientists and technicians. Each possible solution must include the use of smart meters for the continuous survey of domestic water consumption. Water smart meters aren't widespread yet, and the few either are prototypes or exhibit not adequate battery and communication performance. The authors, participants to the EMPIR 17IND13 Metrowamet project, propose an embedded system that can work with different water sensors, whose characteristics have been suitably designed for respecting stringent requirements of energy efficiency, computational burden and wireless transmission capability. 

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

AMI

Embedded system

EMPIR

Leakage detection

Water smart meter

Computational efficiency

Embedded systems

Energy efficiency

Fiber optic sensors

Leakage (fluid)

Communication performance

Computational burden

Domestic water

Household level

Stringent requirement

Wireless transmissions

Smart meters

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)