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This study presents the development of artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) classification models for predicting the safety conditions of water in distribution pipes. The study was based on 504 monthly records of water quality parameters; pH, turbidity, color and bacteria counts taken from nine different locations across the water distribution network in the city of Ålesund, Norway. The models predicted the safety conditions of the water samples in the pipes with 98% accuracy and 94% respectively during testing. The high accuracy achieved in the model results indicate that contamination events in distribution systems that result in unsafe values of the water quality parameters can be detected using these classification models. This can provide water utility managers with real time information about the safety conditions of treated water at different locations of distribution pipes before water reaches consumers.
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We thank the managers of the water utility of Ålesund, Norway for providing the data used in this study.
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Mohammed, H., Hameed, I.A., Seidu, R. (2019). Detection of Water Safety Conditions in Distribution Systems Based on Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine. In: Hassanien, A., Tolba, M., Shaalan, K., Azar, A. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2018. AISI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 845. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99010-1_52
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