A cautionary note from Hugh Chapman on the use of Satellite Leak Detection (that actually requires others to find the leaks) and Artificial Intelligence to ingest acoustic leak detection signals that exponentially increase the number of false-positives.
The same buyer’s remorse is being observed in applying AI to CCTV videos. If CCTV cameras can’t tell where pipes leak, then neither will AI. Defeating the claim that AI will improve rehabilitation selection. It does not.
Clearly, private equity and venture capital investors that have funded these companies did fully understand the needs of the water market and the rigorous benchmarking that is undertaken before solutions are Accepted.
Word of these kind of project failures travel fast.
Thanks Hugh Chapman for posting.
Electro Scan Inc. is working with dozens of U.S. and Global water companies that succumbed to these technologies, now having trouble delivering actionable (i.e. where to fix and in what priority) data to their customers and regulators.