Universitë De Bordeaux

Institut Polytechnique De Bordeaux

Inria

Universite De Bordeaux Segalen

Lyonnaise Des Eaux France

Irstea

Institut National De Recherche Pour L'agriculture, L'alimentation Et L'environnement

Suez International

Karim Claudio

Yves Legat

Vincent Couallier

Jérôme Saracco

Jerome Saracco

Julien Batisse

A method for the real-time estimation of the total consumption of a fluid, in particular water or gas, distributed from a unit (A) to users (b, b. . . ) via a network of supply pipes (E) with a branch (d, d. . . ), for each user, fitted with a counter (c, c. . . ) of the fluid consumed by the user, which method involves defining cohorts of users having homogeneous behavior with regard to the consumption of fluid; defining, for at least one of these cohorts, a sample of users from the cohort that is statistically sufficient to represent the cohort; fitting only the branches of the users of each sample with a remote reading device (t, t, . . . ) for reading the consumption; also fitting remote reading devices to the branches of the users of the other cohorts that have not been sampled; and processing the information provided by the remote reading devices to obtain a real-time value representative of the total consumption of the network.

Method for the real-time estimation of the total consumption of a fluid distributed to users, and a distribution network implementing said method

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Bordeaux, France

Karim Claudio