Potential Performance of Hydraulic State Estimation in Water Distribution Networks

Hydraulic State Estimation (HSE) is a suitable tool to gain real-time understanding of water supply systems. This technique enables estimate the most likely hydraulic behavior in network, as well its associated uncertainty, from available measurements. HSE has been successfully applied trunk mains, but additional work required implement it on Water Distribution Networks (WDNs). The reason for this that WDNs generally have less information than mains. new telemetry devices can be installed at service connections provide an opportunity distributed could used monitor using HSE. However, these technologies often records with different time intervals (i.e. sampling rates), which should leveled same resolution application. poses challenge: combining temporal scales, especially when there are larger monitoring resolution, requires considering uncertainty due disaggregation. aim paper twofold. First, propose methodology systematically level resolution. makes application affordable and consistently evaluate uncertainty. Second, analyze potential case study. thus presents systematic framework assess levels highlights importance increasing within distribution reduce