Water loss dynamic control by Automatic Meter Readings in water distribution network

Nowadays the right evaluation of water losses is one of the more interesting aspects in water networks management. Water saving is necessary in order to reduce both water and energy waste for environmental and economic purposes. Remote monitoring systems are able to read users’ water meters and it is possible to use this feature for a dynamic water balance, and also it is an excellent starting point for a water losses dynamic control approach that links the benefits of active leakage control and the ones of passive leakage control. The proposed approach is based on the data collection on all the meters at the same time. Moreover, using uncertainty analysis, useful information about water loss type (apparent or real) could be carried out. An application over a sector of the water distributions network of Fano (Italy) has shown that the “real time” monitoring allows major improvements about water losses reduction.