Abstract: A fouling sensor in the form of an electrical insulator including a body. The body includes a dish-shaped portion having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a measurement electrode formed of a printed circuit. Both surfaces are identical and filled with copper. The measurement electrode is positioned inside the dish-shaped portion and the measurement electrode includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is oriented towards the inside of the dish-shaped portion and measures the capacitance inside the fouling sensor while the outer surface is grounded. The outer surface is oriented towards the outside of the dish-shaped portion and measures the capacitance outside the fouling sensor while the inner surface is grounded. The body also includes an electrical power supply and a microcontroller configured to instantaneously subtract the capacitive value of the inner surface from that of the outer surface and store the obtained resultant.

Abstract: A fouling sensor in the form of an electrical insulator including a body. The body includes a dish-shaped portion having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a measurement electrode formed of a printed circuit. Both surfaces are identical and filled with copper. The measurement electrode is positioned inside the dish-shaped portion and the measurement electrode includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is oriented towards the inside of the dish-shaped portion and measures the capacitance inside the fouling sensor while the outer surface is grounded. The outer surface is oriented towards the outside of the dish-shaped portion and measures the capacitance outside the fouling sensor while the inner surface is grounded. The body also includes an electrical power supply and a microcontroller configured to instantaneously subtract the capacitive value of the inner surface from that of the outer surface and store the obtained resultant.

Abstract: A water distribution system comprises a water distribution conduit. Disposed in the conduit is a device for measuring a value of at least one parameter representative of the quality of the water flowing in the conduit. The device comprises means for measuring the parameter and means for directing substantially all of the water through the device in close proximity to the means for measuring the one parameter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring at least one physico-chemical parameter of water, said device including a means for measuring the concentration of active chlorine in the form of hypochlorous acid HOC1 in said water. According to the invention, said means for measuring the chlorine concentration in the form of hypochlorous acid HOC1 includes first (21) and second (22) amperometric sensors for detecting chlorine in the form of hypochlorous acid HOC1, each outputting a signal, said two amperometric chlorine sensors (21, 22) having a single common reference electrode (25) and being connected to a double potentiostat, characterised in that said invention includes a means for simultaneously implementing said first (21) and second (22) amperometric sensors, and in that said invention includes a means for measuring a difference between the signals output by said two sensors (21, 22).