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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Harsh Chaudhary, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Younghun Kim, White Plains, NY (US);
Tarun Kumar, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Abhishek Raman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rui Zhang, Ossining, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system to localize a leak in a pipeline network include identifying a respective measured time at which an effect of a leak exhibits in a time-varying data signal measured by each of a plurality of sensors distributed along the pipeline network, each pair of the plurality of sensors defining a respective pipe segment therebetween. Estimating a time of occurrence of the leak based on the measured time associated with two or more of the plurality of sensors; and estimating a relative distance of a leak location from one or more of the plurality of sensors. Determining the leak location is based on the relative distance.