For decades utilities sent out armies of technicians with listening sticks to find pipe leaks by…
for decades utilities sent out armies of technicians with listening sticks to find pipe leaks by ear, and now satellite-based ai finds water leaks up to 10 feet underground across up to 1,000 square miles per pass, while ai-driven district analysis collapses the detection-to-action cycle from months to hours. suez alone has logged leak sounds across 100,000 km of french networks to train its acoustic model.
the most essential utility on earth is being digitized by the least glamorous ai.
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