Leakage detection is an important task to ensure the operational safety of water distribution networks. Leakage characteristic extraction based on high-frequency data has been widely used for leakage detection in experimental networks. However, the accuracy of single-feature-based methods is limited by the interference of background pressure fluctuations in networks. In addition, the setting of leakage diagnosis thresholds has been insufficiently studied, but influences leakage detection performance greatly. Hence, a new method of leakage detection is proposed based on multi-feature extraction. The multi-features of leakage are composed of instantaneous characteristics (ICs) and trend characteristics (TCs), which constitute comprehensive leakage information. The levels of the instantaneous and trend pressure drops in background pressure fluctuations in network environments are quantified for the setting of leakage diagnosis thresholds. In addition, ICs and TCs are used for leakage degree prediction. The proposed method was applied to an experimental network. Compared with the single-feature-based method and the cumulative sum (CUSUM) method, the proposed method achieved increases of 6.01% and 13.66% in F-Scores, respectively, and showed better adaptability to background pressure fluctuations in complex network environments.
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