HOME  /  SOLUTIONS  /  LOSS DETECTION
SOLUTION

Find the losses while they’re still small

Water and gas leaving the network without reaching a customer is revenue gone and, in gas, a safety matter. Continuous measurement makes losses visible as they develop, instead of at the end of the month.

A night-time leak survey on a wet street
NIGHT SURVEY
01 — WHAT TO MEASURE

Night flow, and what pressure says about it.

In a zone with stable demand, the minimum overnight flow is the clearest signal a network gives. A rising floor over several nights, or pressure that sags where it used to hold, points at a loss that is growing.

The overnight minimum

The hours when legitimate demand is closest to zero.

Its trend, not its value

A floor that climbs across nights, not one bad reading.

Pressure alongside it

Pressure that sags where it used to hold corroborates the flow.

Zone by zone

Every district judged against its own history, not a common threshold.

02 — HOW IT’S SET UP

A typical configuration.

CHAMBER SUSPECTED LOSS CX-LOG1.1 multi channel FLOWPRESSURE 4G Zone meterNight flow measured where the district is fed.Loss downstreamA floor that will not fall is the signal to survey.
WHAT A GROWING LOSS LOOKS LIKE ON A ZONE
01Cx-Log1.1 on the zone meter, sampling at 15 minutes so the overnight period is properly resolved.
02Pressure logged on the same device, at the same interval, for context.
03A minimum-flow alarm set above the expected night floor, with persistence so a single reading doesn’t page anyone.
04Daily transmission, with alarms delivered by SMS as they happen.
03 — WHAT YOU SEE

In CLog.

Night flow, night after night, per zone. When the floor rises, the zone is worth investigating; when it drops after a repair, you can show what the repair recovered.

From zone to stretch

CLog narrows the window — when the loss started, how fast it is growing, how it behaves against pressure — so the survey team walks the right length of main on the right night.

Proof either way

The same record that justified the dig shows what the repair recovered.

ACOUSTIC LEAK LOCATION
Alongside the flow and pressure record, acoustic sensing listens for the noise a leak makes — narrowing a suspect zone to a stretch of main before anyone digs.

Show us a zone you cannot explain.

Send us the meter readings for one district and we will tell you what the night flow says about it.