Millions of litres of water lost from leaking underground pipes could be saved through an innovative solution developed by pioneering technology company FIDO Tech and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) academics.
The cloud-based solution has been designed to accurately detect the location of hidden leaks – 90% of underground pipe leaks never show above ground – allowing water utility companies to source the leak more accurately than ever before.
FIDO Cloud Correlation provides a simple and effective processing method, using artificial intelligence, to accurately detect the size and location of leaks within seconds. *Utility companies lose around 500,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water from pipe leaks, annually. This solution will revolutionise current leak detection processes while dramatically reducing water wastage – contributing to global sustainability objectives.
The pioneering system uses small sensors which attach magnetically to pipes and record simultaneous acoustic samples that are then uploaded to the cloud system using a simple user-friendly smartphone app for automatic signal processing. Exact results of the leak’s location between the two sensors are received within seconds.
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