Systems and Methods for Detecting and Preventing Damage to Pipes

    公开(公告)号:US20240142330A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18095675

    申请日:2023-01-11

    IPC分类号: G01M3/00 G01M3/24

    CPC分类号: G01M3/007 G01M3/243

    摘要: Systems and methods are described for detecting a leak based upon home telematics data. The method may include: (1) receiving home telematics data from one or more sensors associated with one or more pipes (or piping systems) in a structure, wherein the home telematics data is indicative of the frequency with which the one or more pipes are being used; (2) determining, using a trained machine learning algorithm, pipe activity associated with the one or more pipes is occurring at an irregular frequency; (3) determining, based upon at least the determination that the pipe activity associated with the one or more pipes is occurring at the irregular frequency, that the one or more pipes are leaking; and (4) transmitting an indication to a user associated with the home that the one or more pipes are leaking.

    Method for determining and/or analyzing a leak in a line for liquid media, in particular a water line

    公开(公告)号:US20240053222A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18323266

    申请日:2023-05-24

    发明人: Michael Hofmann

    IPC分类号: G01M3/24

    CPC分类号: G01M3/243

    摘要: A method for determining a leak in a line for fluid media can include providing at least one noise and/or frequency logger comprising a sensor, and a computing unit, attaching the noise and/or frequency logger to the line or to fittings thereof, measuring noise on the line via the sensor and determining a noise level by means of a frequency analysis of the noise level. The determined frequency spectrum may be divided into two or more frequency bands, and a threshold value may be determined for each frequency band. A threshold value can be determined for each frequency band, and compared the measured noise to determined if one or more threshold values are being exceeded. A leak in the line can be thus be determined and/or analyzed by means of the computing unit.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LEAKS AND LOCATION THEREOF IN PIPES USING MULTI-SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20230393017A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US18033242

    申请日:2021-11-04

    发明人: David Solomon

    IPC分类号: G01M3/24 G06F17/15

    CPC分类号: G01M3/243 G06F17/153

    摘要: A method for detecting leaks in a pipe in a system including a processor and at least one sensor installed on the pipe, may include generating, by the processor, a plurality of signals based on measurements from the at least one sensor. The method may include calculating, by the processor, at least two cross correlations from the plurality of signals. Each cross correlation may correspond to two of the plurality of signals. The method may include calculating, by the processor, a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of each of the at least two cross correlations. The method may include selecting, by the processor, a cross correlation that has a greatest SNR among the at least two cross correlations. The method may include detecting a leak in the pipe based on the selected cross correlation.

    Coordinated acoustic leak detection sensor sampling

    公开(公告)号:US11788919B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US17497493

    申请日:2021-10-08

    申请人: Itron, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01M3/24 F17D5/06 G01M3/28

    CPC分类号: G01M3/243 G01M3/2815

    摘要: A leak detection sensor may be capable of dynamically adjusting a sampling time for acoustic data based on monitored fluid flow. The leak detection sensor monitors leak detection information associated with a fluid in a fluid transporting medium over a predetermined time interval, where the leak detection information comprises flow and pressure of the fluid in the fluid transporting medium, and processing the leak detection data monitored at the sampling time in the predetermined time interval, where the sampling time is determined based at least in part on the monitored flow of the fluid.