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Integration of Acoustic Leak Detection and Cloud Analytics in Water Networks
Becolve Digital partners with Ovarro to deploy cloud analytics and acoustic logging systems for water loss reduction across Spanish municipal networks.
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Ovarro and Becolve Digital have established a partnership to implement digital infrastructure for leak detection and non-revenue water reduction across Spanish water utilities. The cooperation combines Ovarro acoustic hardware and cloud-based analytics platforms with the regional distribution and service integration capabilities of Becolve Digital.
Water distribution networks in Spain face average loss rates between 15 percent and 25 percent, rising to 40 percent in select rural sectors. Modernization initiatives require continuous monitoring to localize structural network defects. Addressing these systemic operational losses requires integrated deployments of field hardware, automated processing algorithms, and field operations management.
Under the partnership framework, Becolve Digital oversees regional integration, local distribution, and engineering support for Ovarro hardware and software architectures. The technical stack comprises acoustic logging instruments paired with the Atrium cloud-based analytics platform.
Technical System Architecture
The deployment incorporates specialized field logging units operating alongside cloud processing infrastructure:
- Enigma5hyQ Loggers: Acoustic instruments equipped with hydrophone sensors optimized for low-frequency sound propagation. These units target long-distance pipeline monitoring, large-diameter trunk mains, and plastic piping networks.
- Enigma5M Loggers: Acoustic accelerometers designed to detect low-amplitude acoustic emissions across extended distances, reducing logger density per network kilometer.
- Atrium Analytics Platform: A cloud-based processing engine that ingests logger data, performs signal correlation, and calculates geometric leak coordinates.
- EnigmaREACH Kit: A modular system containing 32 or 64 correlating loggers, mobile field applications, and continuous cloud connectivity for technicians.
Managed Services and Field Deployment
The joint offer introduces managed service models for fixed-network and lift-and-shift configurations:
The joint offer introduces managed service models for fixed-network and lift-and-shift configurations:
- LeakNavigator: A fully managed fixed-network framework. Dataloggers capture acoustic telemetry, while centralized algorithms identify structural points of interest and route dispatch notifications directly to field technicians via mobile software interfaces.
- LeakCommander: An operational service managing the lift-and-shift investigation process, handling instrument repositioning, correlation execution, and site verification.
Target application areas cover municipal distribution networks, high-density urban grids, and rural transmission mains. System deployment allows utilities to transition from manual acoustic survey techniques to continuous automated monitoring.
Field performance metrics indicate structured operational outcomes. In fixed-network applications, the automated correlation engine generates target conversion rates up to 80 percent on flagged acoustic anomalies. Multi-point correlating kits have demonstrated multi-kilometer coverage in single correlation passes, isolating simultaneous structural leaks, valve failures, and low-volume background losses. The integration reduces field verification times to under two hours following initial deployment, establishing predictable maintenance schedules and improving overall process stability.
Edited by Evgeny Churilov, Induportals Media - Adapted by AI.
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Field performance metrics indicate structured operational outcomes. In fixed-network applications, the automated correlation engine generates target conversion rates up to 80 percent on flagged acoustic anomalies. Multi-point correlating kits have demonstrated multi-kilometer coverage in single correlation passes, isolating simultaneous structural leaks, valve failures, and low-volume background losses. The integration reduces field verification times to under two hours following initial deployment, establishing predictable maintenance schedules and improving overall process stability.
Edited by Evgeny Churilov, Induportals Media - Adapted by AI.
www.ovarro.com
