Until recently, good luck trying to find even a small portion of those leaks. It’s like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. Unless you have IoT. Powering New Efficiencies You can imagine how precious water is in a place such as Las Vegas. Well, the region’s water district recently installed Internet-connected sensors to the buried water mains running right down the center of the Las Vegas Strip.
The devices monitor the physical integrity of the pipe walls on a real-time basis. Such efforts have helped the water district identify more than 1,600 leaks in its system and saved nearly 300 million gallons of water.