A Wireless Low-Cost Monitoring System for Leak Diagnosis in Water Transmission Pipelines Based on Arduino-Xbee Technology

A crucial task to maintain the integrity and efficiency of pipelines is the monitoring and early leak diagnosis. This fact has motivated the development of different analytical techniques that have the common objective of performing the leak detection and location task automatically. However, one of the major constraints for the implementation of these techniques in real-world applications is the high cost of data acquisition and transmission systems. Thus, this paper presents the implementation of a leak diagnosis technique, in a wireless electronic low-cost system which has been designed as a prototype and based on Arduino
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technology. We have proved it in an experimental pipeline in Mexico and good results have been obtained.