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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2012
Lyonnaise Des Eaux France, Paris La Defense, FR;
Universite DE Bordeaux 1, Talence, FR;
Universite DE Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, FR;
Institut Polytechnique DE Bordeaux, Talence, FR;
Inria, Le Chesnay, FR;
Irstea, Antony, FR;
Karim Claudio, Bordeaux, FR;
Vincent Couallier, Eysines, FR;
Yves Legat, Bordeaux, FR;
Jérôme Saracco, Saint Morillon, FR;
LYONNAISE DES EAUX FRANCE, , FR;
UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX 1, , FR;
UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX SEGALEN, , FR;
INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX 1, , FR;
INRIA, , FR;
IRSTEA, , FR;
Abstract
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.