Smart Pipes—Instrumented Water Pipes, Can This Be Made a Reality?
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Smart Pipes—Instrumented Water Pipes, Can This Be Made a Reality?
Several millions of kilometres of pipes and cables are buried beneath our streets in the UK. As they are not visible and easily accessible, the monitoring of their integrity as well as the quality of their contents is a challenge. Any information of these properties aids the utility owners in their planning and management of their maintenance regime. Traditionally, expensive and very localised ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sensors
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s110807455