Patent ID: 11898705
Assignee: AQUARIUS SPECTRUM LTD.
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC F  E  G  Y | IPC E  F  G

Claim 32:
33. A system for pipe network failure classification, said system comprising:
one or more sensors deployed in, on or in proximity to at least one pipe of a pipe network, for monitoring a pipe operation condition and collecting related sensor parameter values; and,
at least one processor, communicatively networked to said one or more sensors and to a pipe network parts database, said pipe network parts database storing feature parameter value records of pipes in the pipe network, said at least one processor is configured to:
(i) intermittently receive the sensor parameter values from said one or more sensors, the sensors parameter values may be an indication of a failure of the at least one pipe;
(ii) reference, upon receipt of an indication of a failure of the at least one pipe, the records stored in the pipe network parts database;
(iii) retrieve one or more feature parameter value records of the at least one pipe; and
(iv) classify the failure of the at least one pipe into one of two or more failure categories associated with different failure causes, based on the sensor parameter values or the retrieved one or more feature parameter value records of the at least one pipe, wherein said pipe network parts database stores:

(1) historic records of leaks labeled by failure type including corrosion, ground movement, or leak location; and
(2) attributes of the at least one pipe including at least one of material, diameter, year of installation, working pressure, pressure transients, temperature changes, wall thickness, ground corrosiveness, ground conductivity, or copper pipe connection density per unit length.