A Novel Leak Detection Approach in Water Distribution Networks

This paper proposes a novel leak monitoring framework aims to improve the operation of water distribution network (WDN). To do that, an online statistical hypothesis test based leak detection is proposed. The main advantages of the developed method are first to deal with the higher required computational time for detecting leaks and then, to update the KPCA model according to the dynamic change of the process. Thus, this can be performed to massive and online datasets. Simulation results obtained from simulated WDN data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.