DEWA’s R&D Centre creates smart facility to develop and test new technologies for leakage detection

DEWA’s R&D Centre creates smart facility to develop and test new technologies for leakage detection

Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ’s Research and Development (R&D) Centre has innovated an advanced, smart facility to simulate various leakage cases of water transmission pipelines. This allows evaluation, development and testing of new leak detection techniques. The Centre developed the facility using software and hardware, based on the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), which allows for complete remote monitoring and control of the facility. The facility includes smart transmission pipes equipped with sensors to monitor hydraulic indicators, collect data on water pressure, flow and temperature, and control an IoT platform that stores data. This data is used to train Machine Learning models to detect leakage events. Based on experimental data using the facility, the developed algorithm was able to identify leakage events with 94.4% accuracy. Further experimentation is ongoing to improve algorithms for leak detection in water transmission pipelines and test sensors.