AIUT WaterPrime reduces water losses in water supply networks effectively
Water deficiency is one of the most crucial problems that today's world has to face. According to the International Water Association (IWA), most cases of treated water loss are mainly due to underground leaks in water supply networks. Therefore, reducing water losses in water networks is the most urgent need nowadays. With the technologies and systems developed at AIUT, our Smart City IoT solutions effectively enable water supply companies to reduce water losses and quickly identify leakage zones.
At the Water Loss 2022 conference organized by IWA in Prague this year, our team of experts from AIUT Smart City IoT Division presented the latest solution for water supply companies. It's WaterPrime - a system which uses artificial intelligence to quickly detect underground leaks and manage water supply networks in an automated manner.
WaterPrime is the first AI-based system for extremely fast detection of concealed leaks and automated water network management.
According to the World Resources Institute (WRI), 36 countries are currently facing water deficiency. The same research institute analyzed the rate of surface water depletion in 167 countries by 2040. As many as 33 of them were classified for extreme water resources strain, and thus extreme water depletion then. Interestingly, such European countries as San Marino, Macedonia, Greece, and Spain also appear in the forecast
– The global problem of water scarcity is growing on and on, therefore new solutions are needed to help reduce water losses and better manage its resources. It is this breakthrough solution, based on artificial intelligence technology, that we want to make available to water companies. AIUT WaterPrime supports analysts in the effective detection of anomalies and failures in no time, which is so much needed today in order to have them quickly located and repaired – says Marek Gabryś, AIUT CEO.
Full control over the water supply network
WaterPrime – a self-learning platform that AIUT has been developing together with scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences – is to help in the supervision of water supply networks and effectively reduce water losses. While still under development, in its final form, the solution will have unique functionalities that exceed the capabilities of similar systems. It will alarm even on the slightest leaks and precisely indicate the failure zone.
– The main objective of WaterPrime will be to quickly and accurately identify leaks - even the smallest ones. This includes in particular the so-called concealed leaks. But the system will be capable of much more than that - supporting the work of analysts in the selection of proper e-tools, advising, alarming on anomalies and cases of imbalance, as well as other inconsistencies that may signal certain problems about to emerge. The platform will learn behavioral patterns and then analyze whether they are effective, suggesting other approaches for the least effective courses of action – explains Andrzej Madej, deputy director of the Smart City IoT industry at AIUT.
