“…TDR-based techniques also drastically reduce the amount of time needed for inspection compared to conventional leak detection techniques; in fact, hundreds-of-meters-long pipes can be inspected with a single measurement operation. Besides, TDR is a well-established technique already used for many applications such as detection and localization of cable defects [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ], monitoring of landslide [ 13 , 14 ], characterization of antennas [ 15 ] and measurement of dielectric properties of materials [ 16 , 17 ], of liquid level in tanks [ 18 ], of soil moisture [ 19 ], of water diffusion in irrigation [ 20 ] among many others, even in the biomedical field [ 21 ]. A possible disadvantage of TDR-based water leak detection is that the SE must be installed near the water pipe, and, hence, it is difficult to use the technique in existing pipelines.…”