Self-powered in-pipe fluid meter and piping network comprising a plurality of such fluid meters
AssigneeAgency for Science, Technology and Research
InventorsZhenfeng Wang, Ser Youn Lim, Wei Fan, Danhong Zhang
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Abstract
A self-powered in-pipe fluid meter to be mounted inside of a pipe carrying a fluid therein. The fluid meter comprises at least one sensing unit capable of measuring one or more parameters of the fluid inside of the pipe; a telemetric data transmission unit capable of telemetrically transmitting data including a measured fluid parameter to a host terminal and/or another fluid meter; and at least one fluid-driven power source unit capable of generating power from the fluid flow within the pipe and supplying power to the sensing unit and/or the transmission unit.
Claims9
A self-powered in-pipe water quality meter to be mounted inside of a pipe carrying water or a mixture containing water as a fluid therein, comprising:
- at least one sensing unit configured to measure one or more water quality parameters of the fluid inside of the pipe;
- a telemetric data transmission unit configured to telemetrically transmit data including a measured water quality parameter to a host terminal and/or another fluid meter;
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- at least one fluid-driven power source unit configured to generate power from the fluid flow within the pipe and supplying power to the sensing unit and/or the transmission unit;
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- at least one battery storage charged by the fluid-driven power source;
- wherein the at least one sensing unit is configured to extract a sample of the fluid inside the pipe and expose the sample to said at least one sensing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.