Critical Infrastructure Pipeline Protection Systems (CIPPS)

除家庭外，大多数经济活动，从医院、学校到工厂和农场，都依赖于可靠的清洁用水。这使得输送水的管道基础设施的完整性变得非常重要。在英国、欧洲和美国，有超过600万公里的水管，其中高达65%的水管使用年限超过70年。由于无法充分监测这些管道的结构完整性，导致一些国家的水损失高达总供水量的50%。漏水很大程度上是由于管道和接头失效、腐蚀、地面沉降、地面移动和意外破坏等外部因素的影响。行业采用的现有解决方案无法检测到这种影响。声学“噪音记录仪”是最常见的机制，但由于塑料管道的透声性差，范围有限，它们太昂贵，无法提供全面的广域覆盖。该行业需要预测系统，但由于成本高和长距离覆盖范围差，目前的传感器无法提供这一功能。因此，公用事业公司发现维护基础设施越来越困难：管道反复破裂，招致巨额罚款，未能达到国家监管机构ofwater设定的减少漏水的目标。为了解决这个问题，我们开发了“关键基础设施管道保护系统”（CIPPS）。CIPPS是一种突破性的保护系统，它利用超低成本的印刷电子技术，提供预测性故障检测和经济有效的管道运行连续监测。我们的解决方案通过嵌入传感器来测量长距离管道的健康状况，从而彻底改变了管道基础设施的潜力。至关重要的是，CIPPS易于安装和制造。该系统是基于广泛的研发工作和原型开发，使用以前的Innovate UK赠款资金以及伯明翰市议会的“区域增长基金”。该项目将对水务行业，特别是资产管理控制产生重大影响。预测性故障检测可以显著减少水损失，延长资产寿命，并通过减少爆裂来降低健康和安全风险。同样重要的是，CIPPS将使水务公司实现零泄漏目标，避免昂贵的罚款，并减少额外的水处理和抽水活动的二氧化碳排放。”

"Beyond households, most economic activities, from hospitals and schools to factories and farms, depend on reliable access to clean water. This makes the integrity of the pipeline infrastructure which delivers that water significantly important. Over 6 million kilometres of water pipes exist in the UK, Europe and US, of which up to 65% are over 70 years old. The inability to adequately monitor the structural integrity of these pipes has led to water losses in some countries to be as high as 50% of the total water supply. Water leakage is largely the effect of pipeline and joint failure, corrosion, and other external factors such as subsidence ground movement and accidental damage.Existing solutions employed by the industry fail to detect such effects. Acoustic 'noise loggers' are the most common mechanism but, with limited range due to poor sound transmittance in plastic pipes, they are too expensive to provide comprehensive wide-area coverage. The industry requires predictive systems but current sensors are unable to provide this due to high cost and poor long-distance coverage. As a result, utilities are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their infrastructure: suffering from repeated pipe bursts, incurring costly fines and missing water leakage reduction targets set by the national regulator, Ofwat.To address this problem, we have developed ""Critical Infrastructure Pipeline Protection Systems"" (CIPPS). CIPPS is a ground-breaking protection system which uses the power of ultra-low-cost, Printed Electronics to provide predictive failure detection and continuous monitoring of pipeline operation cost-effectively. Our solution revolutionizes the potential of pipeline infrastructure by embedding sensors to measure pipeline health over long distances. Crucially, CIPPS is easy to install and manufacture. The system is based on extensive R&D work and prototypes developed using previous Innovate UK grant funding as well as through the Birmingham City Council's 'Regional Growth Fund'.This project will be a step-change in the water industry, in particular asset management control. Predictive failure detection allows for significant reduction in water losses, extending asset lifetimes and lowered health and safety risks by reductions in bursts. Equally importantly, CIPPS will enable water utilities to achieve Zero Leakage targets, avoid costly penalties and reduce CO2 emissions from additional water treatment and pumping activities."