Residual Water Burst Detection Using WSN Measurements and Cloud Analysis

Water leakage and burst detection with increased accuracy represents an open issue in water management systems. Main challenges identified in this sector refer to lack of proper analysis tools and poor system state information. Stating from the water dynamics principles, we defined a model for water system characterization and pipe burst detection. We identified a minimum set of data needed for this information and proposed a WSN architecture for data acquisition. We computed the dynamic characteristics of a water supply shaft system and performed a cloud analysis of the system to determine the localization of the burst.