Prediction of residential households' water leakage using consensus method

Consensus method is a means of communication between experts who assist the formation of a group judgment. This technique has great potential to be adopted to provide prediction based on outcomes obtained from several classification algorithms. In this study, data on water consumption was used to induce the classification model that will be used to predict the possibility of the occurrence of water leakage at residential premises. The classification algorithms used in the analysis using consensus method were selected based on their generalization ability on simulation datasets. The prediction outcomes were obtained based on analysis on individual algorithm classification outcomes on validation dataset. The finding showed a very promising result where consensus method produces consistent prediction outcomes.