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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Water metering"”.
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Advanced water metering and its application in low income communities
… Africa, it is a legislative requirement that all water supply points be metered (van Zyl, 2011). Conventional meters are mostly used as the main means of monitoring water consumption by South African municipalities. In the last two decades, the water metering industry has seen substantial …
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Case study review of advanced water metering applications in South Africa
Advanced water metering is part of a much larger movement towards smart networks and intelligent infrastructure. However, where advanced metering technology is focused more towards the need to obtain meter readings without human intervention in other parts of the world, in South Africa and other …
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A comparative evaluation of unsupervised anomaly detection techniques in smart water metering networks
… have enabled the development of smart water metering networks (SWMNs). These networks enable water utilities to measure the water consumption of the connected households better than the traditional metering. Every household's traditional water meter is replaced by a smart meter. Smart …
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Investigating the J2EE software architecture for infrastructure monitoring : a water metering case study
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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Pre-paid water metering: social experiences and lessons learned from Klipheuwel pilot project, South Africa
This thesis examined a pre-paid water metering pilot project which was implemented in Klipheuwel , Cape Town, South Africa in 2001. It was anticipated that the implementation of pre-paid water meters would help improve the management of water service delivery in the Cape Metropolitan Area. However, …
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Disaggregation and classification of residential water events from high-resolution smart water meter data using unsupervised machine learning methods
… sector accounts for a significant amount of water consumption in the United States. Understanding this water consumption behavior provides opportunity for water savings, which are important for sustaining freshwater resources. This study analyzed 1-second resolution smart water meter data …
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Improving water allocation law and policy in New Zealand: Lessons from Australia
… Zealand learn from the Australian experience in water allocation? In order to answer this question the thesis first examines the current water allocation law and policy problems in New Zealand. New Zealand has problems with over allocation and a lack of mechanisms to transfer water. There are …
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Utility measurement requirements : SASOL 1 site as case study
Clean water has become a scarce and pricey commodity. Companies, governments and the public are realising more and more the importance of efficient and effective water use and the conservation of South Africa's natural water resources. Governments are implementing conservation and usage laws while …
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Data-driven approaches for residential water end-use classification and sustainable urban water management
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Evaluation of In-Service Residential Water Meters: Analysis of Registration Error and Metering Infrastructure Upgrades
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the International Water Association (IWA) have designated the volume of water not registered by water meters as a form of "apparent loss" in a distribution system. The term apparent is given because this volume is not technically a water loss, as is …
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The impact of domestic water user cultures on water efficiency interventions in the South East of England: Lessons for water demand management.
The need for a more sustainable approach to water consumption has increasingly gained attention in the last decade. The domestic sector accounts for over half of abstracted water in the UK and, as such, has become a major target for water efficiency interventions. Current research and water …