Yorkshire Water is working with Inflowmatix on a new project, as part of its increasing investment into smart networks, which the company hopes will play a key role in its leakage reduction.
The two-year scheme will see 650 InflowSense™ devices fitted across the county which will analyse pressure transients at 128 sample points per second.
The devices will help Yorkshire Water to identify and resolve the causes of the pressure transients which result in dynamic stress on the network, leading to leaks and interruption to customer supply.
This announcement follows on from Yorkshire Water’s £50 million investment in leakage reduction, including £4 million replacing customers’ own pipes and the installation of nearly 40,000 acoustic loggers across the region. The company is investing in satellite technology to identify leaks from space as another new initiative.
Yorkshire Water Innovation Programme Manager, Sam Bright, said:
“Reducing leakage is a key priority for us at Yorkshire Water and we are excited by the potential of the InflowSense™ devices and the benefits they will bring to the network and our customers.”
Yorkshire Water currently has 250 leakage inspectors across Yorkshire searching for leaks which aren’t visible plus 140 technicians who tackle visible leaks that its customers report.
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