According to the National Administration for Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (NASMG), China have created a program that will use the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) to monitor their gas pipelines for any leaks that can't be monitored by a simple tool.

Out of the 100 cities that will primarily benefit from it, 10 cities have already been installed with the said equipment. Pressure transistors are being attached to the 400,000 kilometers of gas pipelines all over the country, and while these transistors can deliver warnings of possible leaks, they cannot, however, give the exact location of a leak.

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Miao Qianjun of the Global Navigation Satellite System said, "Under the new system, gas engineers will be given a handheld BDS device which they can use to accurately record these locations. The data collected will be compiled into leakage propensity analysis reports that will inform real time risk assessment."

According to Oil Gas Daily, it was in the  year 2000 that the first BDS navigation system was launched, but it was in 2012 where it began to service real time positioning all over the Asia Pacific.

Yibada reported that the BeiDou Navigation satellite System approved BeiDou's navigation safety circular and the first generation BNS was introduced in March 2015. China's local satellite navigation system has become a hot topic after it proved its capacity to help detect and prevent possible dangerous gas leakage in the country.

Beidous system will be the center point of all connecting gas pipelines all over the country, making it the only monitoring point where engineers will able to detect a possible leakage and can convene to dispatch personnels to manually monitor the place. Using a handheld device to determine the exact position, engineers will be reportedly able to perform preventive maintenance before it even becomes a problem.

The system will also allow engineers to keep track of past records of repairs and maintenance. The log and detection problem will serve as their guide in making sure they know the receptive locations of gas leaks.

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