Patent attributes
Systems and methods relate to monitoring liquid pressure to detect liquid leaks based on a global sequence alignment technique. A monitoring device in a liquid distribution obtains periodic samples at regular time intervals from a representative node of a liquid distribution system. Sequences of the samples are formed for a current time instance and for historical data comprising samples at the same node related to the same time instance, such as samples which are a day old and/or a week old. Global sequence alignment algorithms are implemented at a cloud computing service to determine if there are deviations from liquid pressure patterns at the node which are indicative of a liquid leak. Related notifications are provided wirelessly to user devices.