To mitigate the risk and impact of water pipe leaks and bursts in the Perth CBD, Water Corporation utilises remote active leak detection monitoring technology across selected distribution and reticulation water pipes. This remote monitoring provides a continuous acoustic visibility on the assets providing early detection capability for Non-Visible leaks and the protection of assets. This early detection of failures of the water pipes reduces the high cost reactive approach, enables mitigation or remediation decisions to be deployed prior to Functional Failure. In a high density environment such as the Perth CBD minimises asset, public safety, subsequential damage and customer impacts resulting from bursts or catastrophic failures.

Active leak detection monitoring in the Perth CBD is achieved by two remote monitoring deployments:

• Zonescan NB-IoT Correlating Acoustic Loggers, owned and maintained by Water Corporation utilising a Cloud Zonescan NET portal; and
• Treble Distributed Acoustic Sensing of leased fibre-optic cables, analysed and reported by an external service provider.

While the acoustic logger technology is used across the industry for monitoring, the use of fibreoptic is technology is new within the water industry but utilised within other industries for temperature and vibration remote monitoring.

This presentation will provide an overview of remote monitoring deployed for non-visible leak detection and protection of assets, and the benefits realised.

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About the speakers:

Ian Gibb is an electrical Engineer working, for over 40 years on asset and network management, risk and performance activities, in the Electricity industry, jurisdictionally and nationally, and Water Utility industry in recent years.

Matt Ferguson is an environmental Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in Water industry, Environmental Service Delivery and Resources Sectors. More recently having an interest and focus on asset and network risk and performance.

This session forms the fourth in a webinar series presented by MRiAM – Safe and Smart: Use of Technology for Remote Monitoring of Assets.

How do we remove people from dangerous conditions and situations and do our remote monitoring smarter? The Maintenance & Reliability in Asset Management special interest group presents this 5-part series where we look at different types of technologies that can be employed to reduce the risk to people and property.

Join us online and take the opportunity to look into techniques that are less familiar and can be adapted to your industry, or learn more about what others are doing within your own industry!

Registering for this session will register you for all five sessions in the series:

• 9 Aug | 12pm AEST: Application of remote condition monitoring technologies for Hydro Tasmania’s civil infrastructure
• 15 Aug | 12pm AEST: Safe and smart digital technology used to safeguard industrial assets and workers
• 22 Aug | 1pm AEST: Enhancing asset condition assessment for potable water storages through the use of robotic technology
• 29 Aug | 12pm AEST: Remote Water Pipe Leakage Monitoring in Perth CBD
• 5 Sep | 12pm AEST: Application of a diagnostic algorithm for performance monitoring of solar electric power generation assets