[en] Water is an essential good for human being
necessity. It must be protected against pollution and useless
leakage. Urban waterworks is a strategic infrastructure to be
managed with particular attention and care so that users
must be satisfied. Different techniques are used to detect
leaks from waterworks, specifically from pipelines carrying
water. Among them, spectral analysis is very interesting to
apply amid problems related to the pipeline section. This
paper presents an application of STFT (short-term Fourier
transform) technique for identifying urban waterworks
leaks; STFT technique is usually used in processing speech.
For the purposes of this research, a specific pipeline plant
has been build in other to feature a real case. The pipeline
section is almost one inch; the adopted section makes the
research very interesting since spectral analysis, based
essentially on FFT, is generally used for section greater
than 20 cm.
Research Center/Unit :
SUPRATECS - Services Universitaires pour la Recherche et les Applications Technologiques de Matériaux Électro-Céramiques, Composites, Supraconducteurs - ULiège
Disciplines :
Electrical & electronics engineering
Author, co-author :
Lay-Ekuakille, Aimé; University of Lecce > Dipartimento d’Ingegneria dell’innovazione
Vendramin, Giuseppe; University of Lecce > Dipartimento d’Ingegneria dell’innovazione
Trotta, Amerigo; Polytechnic of Bari > Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Vanderbemden, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Capteurs et systèmes de mesures électriques
Language :
English
Title :
STFT-based spectral analysis of urban waterworks leakage detection
Publication date :
2009
Event name :
XIX IMEKO World Congress Fundamental and Applied Metrology
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