Online Pipe Leakage Detection Using the Vibration-Based Wireless Sensing System

Xiaoli Tang, Yu Jia*, Guojin Feng, Yuandong Xu, Fengshou Gu, Andrew D. Ball

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

Abstract

Piping systems are widely utilized in industry and home. Leakage of piping systems induced by prolonged corrosion, severe weather, or man-made damage will lead to serious consequences like explosion disasters, severe damage to industrial equipment, unforeseeable waste of resources and even threaten human life. WSNs significantly attract attentions in Industry 4.0 in recent years due to their advantages of wide distribution, remote controllability, convenient portability, easy programming, and economy. Meanwhile, as a non-intrusive measurement technique, vibration manifests a great potential for leakage detection of piping systems. In this paper, a vibration-based wireless sensing system is developed to remotely monitor the condition of piping systems in real time. According to the analytical results of vibration signals at two different positions on the piping system, the effective statistical features are extracted at the wireless sensor node to detect the leakage and its severity of the piping system. Furthermore, it can reduce the amount of data transmitted to reduce the power consumption then prolong the service life of the designed wireless sensing system. The diagnostic result can be conveniently observed on the mobile device in real time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IncoME-VI and TEPEN 2021 - Performance Engineering and Maintenance Engineering
EditorsHao Zhang, Guojin Feng, Hongjun Wang, Fengshou Gu, Jyoti K. Sinha
Pages477-489
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Sept 2023
Event6th International Conference on Maintenance Engineering, IncoME-VI and the Conference of the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network, TEPEN 2021 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 20 Oct 202123 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameMechanisms and Machine Science
Volume117
ISSN (Print)2211-0984
ISSN (Electronic)2211-0992

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Maintenance Engineering, IncoME-VI and the Conference of the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network, TEPEN 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period20/10/2123/10/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Condition monitoring
  • Leakage detection
  • Piping system
  • Wireless vibration sensing system

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