Detecting Leaks in the Water Infrastructure

FlowNetworx helps water utilities detect the leakage in their pipeline infrastructure and enables them to instantly react, saving clean water and money.

Many of the pipes in the water infrastructure were placed in the beginning or middle of the 20th century. However, their lifespan is 75 to 100 years.

Due to the aging infrastructure, pipes burst or leak. This causes a lot of unnecessary loss of clean, drinking water. Not only this, but it leads to big financial losses.

A loss of 20 – 30% due to leakage during water transport is an average which was accepted as the standard until recently.

Only in the US, 6 billion gallons of clean water are lost every day! That is more over 2 trillion gallons annually.

That is a direct waste of money and energy on water treatment.

The reason for such huge losses are due to the inability of utilities to precisely detect the leak or the lack of their knowledge that one even exists.

Fixing the infrastructure is not cheap and, without knowing the exact location of the problem, it will cost even more.

FlowNetworx ic a company which helps water utilities detect leaks in their infrastructure, with the precision of one foot (0.3 m), without having to dig or cause any inconveniences for the customers.

They offer:

• leak detection
• pressure control
• remote water pressure adjustments
• remote monitoring of sewage systems to decrease overflows
• integrated data from various points on a secure, cloud-based platform.

This helps utilities reduce revenue loss and operating costs.

By finding leaks as soon as they happen, a lot of money could be saved.

Some of FlowNetworx’ products are data loggers and correlators, ground microphones and water pressure modulation equipment as well as the company's modular communications platform, OmniColl, and cloud-based hosting software, DataGate.

They monitor water flow, pressure and leakage, temperature; humidity, carbon dioxide levels, electricity and natural gas levels every 15 minutes by any Internet-enabled device.

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