MeterSure.netM. Sohaib Alam

Product for Valor Water Analytics

Problem Statement

● Processes and data problems within water utilities lead to water meters not charged the full amount of water delivered

Problem Statement

● Processes and data problems within water utilities lead to water meters not charged the full amount of water delivered

● Faulty water meters sum to revenue loss of ~$8.7 billion in the US

Problem Statement

● Given monthly billing data (~1GB) from a North Carolina facility (2009-2014), identify anomalous meters

Four different types of anomalies.Unlabelled data.Search for indicators.

Label “obviously” anomalous meters meeting strict indicator criteria.

Identify more meters using Gaussian anomaly detection.Calculate associated revenue loss.

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About Me● PhD, Theoretical Physics

from UT Austin● Discovering mathematical

relationships between black holes and nuclear matter

● Very excited about machine learning and data science!