A Novel Approach for Water Leakage Detection and Localization

The 21st century era is witnessing continuous technological advancements and rapid degradation of our natural resources. Water, which is one of the basic necessities, is under scarcity. There is a need to find ways to conserve and save every single drop of water. To confront from scarcity of water and preserve it using a more efficient method, the idea has been presented in this paper. The idea focuses on developing and implementing an efficient and optimized water utilization system in which automation is done using the sensor data for the quantity of water supplied from the main supply tank to its respective sub tanks with an efficient and optimized leakage detection system in the supply lines. Leakage amount in the supply lines is detected based on the concept of difference between water delivered to various nodes by the main tank and received by the various nodes, and the exact location of the leakage is determined using a new approach based on transmission line and circuit theory concepts. The main advantage of using the proposed leakage detection scheme is to reduce the cost to existing leakage detection schemes without comprising the accuracy of the system. While most of the schemes employ sensors and other costly elements thus causing the increase in the system cost, this scheme is very simple and practical as it does not require any sensors and other costly elements but only requires very simple hardware requirements such as coaxial cable, copper wire and waveform analyzer.