Current leak detection methods focus on finding existing leakage downstream in district metered areas (DMAs), but a leak occurring anywhere in the clean water network has the potential to cause significant disruption.

Trunk main bursts can cause significant losses in water supply to large numbers of people. Upstream pipelines usually have large diameters and pump large volumes of water. Many upstream leaks go unnoticed and they can increase the overall leakage amount significantly in the network.

A leak detection system that considers the whole clean water network provides a range of benefits.

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Core to Atmos’ water sector services is its industry leading intrusive and non-intrusive instrumentation that can collect acoustic, flow, pressure and vibration data to support multimethod leak detection coverage across multiple operating conditions.

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Calm networks with transient monitoring

The complex nature of water pipelines results in pressure surges travelling quickly through the network. This can be caused by a range of operations including pump start/stop and valves opening or closing too quickly.

Atmos uses high resolution data that sees deeper into pipeline operations, identifying transients travelling through the pipeline that can have a catastrophic impact on pipeline integrity.

Being able to identify pressure transients and link their presence to pipeline performance allow a water utility to modify their pipeline operations to adopt a calm networks approach.

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Preventing newly forming leaks from becoming existing leaks with real-time leak detection

With 30 years’ advanced experience in detecting new leaks in the oil and gas industry, we have brought this approach to the water industry.

Leak detection allows water utilities access to better instrumented pipelines, improved visibility of the network and more accurate pipeline information.

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Reducing customer supply interruptions

Water leak detection from Atmos aims to keep customers’ loss of supply to a minimum.

Our early warning solutions understand that every minute counts and have the capability of detecting leaks within minutes and burst or rupture events in even less time.

We’re reducing water supply interruptions for end users and helping mitigate regulatory fines associated with water supply interruption to customers.

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Asset health protection

Water network pipelines are typically ageing and more susceptible to leaks and bursts.

Installing a leak detection solution gives better visibility of pipeline condition and reduces the risk of further deterioration of assets.

The asset health protection enabled by our leak detection solution can extend the life of the asset as a result.

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Keeping regulatory fines to a minimum

There is a heavy regulatory focus on reducing leakage and water supply interruption to customers.

Using a multimethod leak detection approach made up of hardware instrumentation, software and human analysis will help a water utility to meet challenging regulatory performance requirements.

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Cost effective, high resolution data

Using a combination of 60-480 Hz pressure data and signal processing algorithms from hardware instrumentation, Atmos data sees deeper into the state of the clean water network.

All Atmos hardware has a millisecond sampling interval with cost effective functionality, while a SCADA or distributed control system has a relatively slow data sampling rate, missing most leak or theft events.

We can reduce the expense associated with the transmission of high resolution data by utilizing Edge processing, providing accurate, cost effective alarms for newly forming leaks and bursts.

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Leak detection algorithm

Our market leading, patented leak detection technologies are quicker, more accurate, highly sensitive and generate fewer false alarms giving our end users more confidence, reducing uncertainty and reducing response time.

Atmos Wave Flow combines several algorithms to achieve the highest sensitivity, best location accuracy and the fastest detection time.

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Greater leak location detail with the human element

After a leak alarm is generated and a data pack associated with the event is sent out, leak data from Atmos is further analyzed within the data portal by our engineers.

Our team of Atmos leak detection engineers have years of experience and are trained in the latest technologies to analyze the data in greater detail to locate the site of a leak to within meters.

Discover how instrumental the human element was in a recent pilot project.

Curbing theft opportunists

There’s an increased risk of pipeline theft as water scarcity becomes more of a global issue and security of supply worsens.

As leaders in both leak and theft detection, we can combine multiple methods bringing together our market leading technology and instrumentation to provide a complete solution for both challenges.

Atmos has a range of hardware that can be deployed alongside software, to enhance theft location accuracy and curb pipeline theft globally.

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Atmos water hardware is designed to detect leaks, bursts or pressure transients across the whole water network

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