Automomously reporting plumbing mesh network applications

A method, comprising:

• Processing, gathering and transferring plumbing data at a sensor node from a transmitter to a receiver;
• Using an ad-hoc mobile communications peer-to-peer network to link all sensor nodes within a discrete plumbing network such that nodes can interact with each other directly or via hopping or meshing to assure all nodes are actively reporting and interconnected with each other;
• Running plumbing specific applications such as leak detection using attributes of the peer-to-peer mesh such that wireless triangulation based on time division of arrival (TDoA) and geo-coordination provides pin-point accuracy in real-time;
• Running plumbing specific applications using the attributes of the peer-to-peer mesh such that sensor based vibration and sensor based acoustics can be used to drive in-network signaling from a fixture requiring water to the master solenoid to release water to the target fixture;
• Determining that all nodes in the ad hoc network are connected via run-time sensor node analysis wherein each sensor node provides its identifier and data to a reporting system or application for a system wide check;
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• Using the Internet or a local area network or a mobile hand held peer to peer communications device to extract sensor data for a local area plumbing network for leak detection reporting and alarming, water usage data, maintenance data for predictive analytics and user data analysis.