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100% accurate and successful leak localisation evidenced by a UK and EU water company.
Detects smallest leaks, i.e. < 1L/s flow rate.
Deals with uncertainties, e.g. headloss <= 2mm
About
E-Favor is an AI powered software tool designed and developed to deliver automated water leakage detection and localisation information in real-time for any scale of drinking water pipeline systems.
E-favor addresses accuracy and randomness issues for water leak detection (same results each run, eliminating randomness), particularly for plant scale water systems. e-Favor also does not need special water leak sensors, is easy to deploy, and easy to use by non-experts.
e-Favor software product is the only solution in the market which delivers the following capabilities and functionalities:
1) 100% accurate and successful leak localisation function. The success is evidenced by a major UK water company’s utilisation of the e-Favor tool since 2010 (14 years) . The company is currently expanding application of e-Favor from 30 regions into 100 regions.
2) e-Favor is a tailor-made technology for plant scale water systems implementation (in which the flow rates and headloss are comparatively low). e-Favor can successfully deal with uncertainties in the case that the error margin of measurement equipment is even larger than the small disturbance caused by a water leak, e.g. headloss caused by leakage <2mm. This capability is critical for water leak detection and localisation in plant scale water systems.
3) Detects smallest/hidden leaks, i.e. less than 1L/s flow rate. e-Favor can detect the smallest leaks from city-scale complex water systems with considerable flow rates, and thus the leaks in plant scale water systems are apparent for e-Favor to detect.
4) e-Favor does not need additional leak detection sensors. It can use data from normal pressure loggers and flow meters that have already been installed in a system (even portable loggers to save cost and avoid intrusive installations in the systems).
5) e-Favor uses a series of techniques to realise the ‘data -> information -> knowledge’ process efficiently. The methods allow us to deal with high uncertainty caused by inaccurate/faulty measurements.
6) Automated sensor placement. E-Favor can either adopt existing sensor locations from a system or suggest optimal sensor placement plan by using its AI-based sensor placement tool. An EU water company has applied e-Favor to guide placement of water meters and pressure sensors in their system, for future water leak detections.
Key Benefits
The benefits to manufacturers of using e-Favor for water leak detection and localisation in a business environment include:
· Significantly improved manufacturing efficiency and productivity
Successful real-time automated detection and localisation of water leaks, with 100% success rate within the business.
A major UK company representive who is using e-Favor for 14 years said “We are now rolling out PLaN (Pressure Loss across Networks) to 100 DMA's! This as you can imagine will involve improvements to the way we do things so that we can keep up with demand. So far we've had 100% success with the method. The first trial found 2 leaks and a school with flushing urinals at night oh and also a valve that was letting by, the second trial found 2 leaks, the third found 6 leaks and the last one found 10! So far every time we say go there they find a leak :-)”.
· Resources saving/environmentally sustainable
e-Favor has saved several billion litres of water by detecting over 90 water leaks in one region in a year.
Every e-Favor dispatch found a leak. Hence, e-Favor maximises utilisation of staff time and relevant resources, promotes sustainable water management practices, and significantly reduces response time to incidents (e.g. water leaks; unusual water uses; pipe breaks). Additionally, e-Favor estimate leak flow amounts for water auditing.
· Cost saving
- e-favor is easy to deploy: it does not require sensors (e.g. pressure loggers) for very high accuracy (that may be costly), nor does it require use of special leak detection sensors. It can work with any type of water meters and pressure loggers already installed in a system, and even works with portable loggers thus avoids intrusive installation time and effort, saving the business costs.
- Easy to use: a non-expert can learn to use e-Favor in minutes.
· Time saving and efficient for real-time operation
Each analysis of using e-Favor only takes a few seconds.
All the functions and processes in e-Favor are also supported with AI for automatically generation of expert solutions, e.g. automated training of digital model based on historical data; and automated parameter settings for optimal sensor placement.
Applications
The market for e-Favor is global and substantial. Water Leak Detection Systems market is growing rapidly from $712.26 Million in 2022 to $1008.82 Million by 2028, CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) = 5.97%.
By assuming (conservatively) that 10% of the 1008.82 Million market will be for software systems, the target market size could be $100 Million ($1008.82 Million X 10%).
Our current market focus is municipal scale water systems (e.g. water distribution systems) and plant scale water systems (e.g. beverage bottling plants, and any other manufacturing systems).