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Detecting leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDN) using sensors has become crucial towards an efficient management of water resources. The leak detection methods that use this data rely on the correctness of the acquired data. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Krishnan Srinivasarengan , Taha Boukhobza , Samir Aberkane , Vincent Laurain

In this paper, we propose a data-driven leak localization method for water distribution networks (WDNs) which combines two complementary approaches: graph-based interpolation and dictionary classification. The former estimates the complete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Paul Irofti , Luis Romero-Ben , Florin Stoican , Vicenç Puig

Leak detection in urban water distribution networks (WDNs) is challenging given their scale, complexity, and limited instrumentation. We present an algorithm for leak detection in WDNs, which involves making additional flow measurements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Aravind Rajeswaran , Sridharakumar Narasimhan , Shankar Narasimhan

Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), critical to public well-being and economic stability, face challenges such as pipe blockages and background leakages, exacerbated by operational constraints such as data non-stationarity and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Stelios G. Vrachimis , Marios M. Polycarpou

Leakages are a major risk in water distribution networks as they cause water loss and increase contamination risks. Leakage detection is a difficult task due to the complex dynamics of water distribution networks. In particular, small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Valerie Vaquet , Fabian Hinder , Barbara Hammer

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical systems for our society and detecting leakages is important for minimizing losses and water waste. This makes optimal sensor placement for leakage detection very relevant. Existing sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

This study presents two models to optimize pressure management in water distribution networks. The first model forecasts pressure at distribution points and compares predictions with actual data to detect anomalies such as leaks and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Tran Dang Khoa

Detecting and localizing leakages is a significant challenge for the efficient and sustainable management of water distribution networks (WDN). Leveraging the inherent graph structure of WDNs, recent approaches have used graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zepeng Zhang , Olga Fink

Water distribution networks are a key component of modern infrastructure for housing and industry. They transport and distribute water via widely branched networks from sources to consumers. In order to guarantee a working network at all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Jonathan Jakob , André Artelt , Martina Hasenjäger , Barbara Hammer

Leakages in drinking water distribution networks pose significant challenges to water utilities, leading to infrastructure failure, operational disruptions, environmental hazards, property damage, and economic losses. The timely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ivo Daniel , Andrea Cominola

Sensor placement for leakage detection in water distribution networks is an important and practical challenge for water utilities. Recent work has shown that graph neural networks can estimate and predict pressures and detect leaks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

Detecting leaks in water networks is a costly challenge. This article introduces a practical solution: the integration of optical network with water networks for efficient leak detection. Our approach uses a fiber-optic cable to measure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Huan Wu , Huan-Feng Duan , Wallace W. L. Lai , Kun Zhu , Xin Cheng , Hao Yin , Bin Zhou , Chun-Cheung Lai , Chao Lu , Xiaoli Ding

The paper studies the problem of leakage localization in water distribution networks. For the case of a single pipe that suffers from a single leak, by taking recourse to pressure and flow measurements, and assuming those are noiseless, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Ludvig Lindstrom , Sebin Gracy , Sindri Magnusson , Henrik Sandberg

In this work, we present a general procedure for acoustic leak detection in water networks that satisfies multiple real-world constraints such as energy efficiency and ease of deployment. Based on recordings from seven contact microphones…

To deploy and operate deep neural models in production, the quality of their predictions, which might be contaminated benignly or manipulated maliciously by input distributional deviations, must be monitored and assessed. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Guy Bar-Shalom , Yonatan Geifman , Ran El-Yaniv

Timely leak detection in water distribution networks is critical for conserving resources and maintaining operational efficiency. Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing spatial-temporal dependencies in sensor data, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Qusai Khaled , Pasquale De Marinis , Moez Louati , David Ferras , Laura Genga , Uzay Kaymak

The aim of this paper is to present how data collected from a water distribution network (WDN) can be used to reconstruct flow rate and flow direction all over the network to enhance knowledge and detection of unforeseen events. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-27 Christophe Dumora , David Auber , Jérémie Bigot , Vincent Couallier , Cyril Leclerc

Recent advances in AI and robotics have claimed many incredible results with deep learning, yet no work to date has applied deep learning to the problem of liquid perception and reasoning. In this paper, we apply fully-convolutional deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Connor Schenck , Dieter Fox

Control of water distribution networks (WDNs) can be represented by an optimization problem with hydraulic models describing the nonlinear relationship between head loss, water flow, and demand. The problem is difficult to solve due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Shen Wang , Ahmad F. Taha , Nikolaos Gatsis , Marcio Giacomoni

In this paper, we provide a mathematical optimization-based framework to determine the location of leak detection devices along a network. Assuming that the devices are endowed with a known coverage area, we analyze two different models.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Víctor Blanco , Miguel Martínez-Antón
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