Wireless Sensor Network Based on wM-Bus for Leakage Detection in Gas and Water Pipes

In the last years, energy saving is one of the dominant themes of public opinion, and thus the technological research is focused on this topic. The only adoption of new and more efficient technologies does not solve problem of the losses introduced by the carriage gas or water. In all countries, the losses of water in waterworks and in the urban carriage networks are great, but this problem is particularly acute in Italy, where, for example, the water losses overtake 30 % of the total amount of the water flowing in pipes. In the following, a solution based on WSN for the monitoring of the leakages, mainly in gas pipe, using the wM-Bus communication technology, has been proposed.