Kando Joins Forces with Ayyeka Technologies to create wastewater solutions that deliver real-time results
Kando, which specializes in providing smart city wastewater solutions has entered a strategic partnership with Ayyeka Technologies, which provides end-to-end field data monetization solutions. The two companies joined forces to ensure the continuous generation of data from the field, managing the data and the decoding of information and analysis of the situation in the field in real time.
The synergy between the companies is clearly reflected through this collaboration whereby Ayyeka is responsible for generating and managing the data and transferring it to Kando’s server, while Kando performs the analysis of the data and sends recommendations to the customer.
An example of this cooperation was the joint venture where Ayyeka, which provided a battery-powered IoT solution for monitoring the quality of wastewater demonstrated the hardware’s impressive resistance under the conditions of extreme acidity and humidity in the sewers while transferring and managing the information from the sewage system in a highly effective and secure fashion. Meanwhile, Kando applied its proprietary algorithms to the data generated by Ayyeka, and conducted a thorough analysis that resulted in the corporation receiving an accurate picture of the problem in real time. The partnership thus prevented a serious malfunction of contaminated wastewater from flowing into a water source, which is prohibited by law and liable to criminal punishment.
The project was launched a few months ago. An immediate and long-term solution has been achieved, including the possibility of removing a hydraulic module used in the operation of the municipal sewage system, the possibility of providing a current response to the city’s sewage needs and more efficient planning for future tasks. This was achievable thanks to Kando’s data analysis program, based on a reliable solution that provided continuous information from the municipal wastewater network.
In addition to information, this innovative collaboration offers the customer an understanding of the source of the problem and the means to solve it. The high-performance system is intended for use by water corporations and decision-makers in the municipal wastewater network.
About Kando
Kando was established in 2012 to support water corporations with an IOT solution. This technology ensures a significant improvement in wastewater quality, helps to protect the waste recycling process, prevents damage to the wastewater network and the sewage treatment facility from events occurring in the underground sewage network by identifying the contaminant, warning and providing actual tools and insights to the decision makers in water corporations.
Website: www.kando.co.il
For further information:
Jenny Gelman, Head of Marketing
8 Tsur Street, Tsur Yigal, 1st floor, Israel
jenny@kando.co.il
+972-547907599
About Ayyeka
Ayyeka simplifies the creation of data from remote infrastructures and assets directly to decision makers. Thanks to the Service Data-as-a-Service solution, Ayyeka enables the creation of smart, efficient and secure networks. With Ayyeka, users can collect data from any sensor, anywhere, anytime, move across any network, and integrate with any SCADA control center system or software platform.
Website: www.ayyeka.com
For further information:
Moshe Gueta , Smart Solution Sales Director
mg@ayyeka.com
+972-507443370
How to digitize your wastewater network with a smart water solution?
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 23,000 to 75,000 sanitary sewer overflow events occur in the United States each year. These overflows are mainly caused by rising wet weather conditions, inadequate maintenance and aging sewer infrastructure.2 Next to managing these overflows, municipalities face additional challenging obligations due to growth of urban populations that require more demanding water quality protection. Let alone the fact that securing funding for infrastructure maintenance also became more difficult. It increases operational challenges and can affect treatment efficiency, reliability, and control of the wastewater network3. All this makes it more difficult for municipalities to meet required water standards.
According to the EPA, the solution is an Asset Management Sewer Collection System. Also known as a smart data infrastructure system. A tool like this can help maintain and elevate levels of service of domestic wastewater and stormwater systems, plan system renewal and upgrades. However, many wastewater and stormwater utilities have not implemented such robust asset management planning systems, because NPDES permits have rarely required Sewer Lines or encouraged their use.4
EPA recommends implementing smart data infrastructure systems for wet weather control to monitor, prevent and control the effects. However, it leaves us with the question what solutions are out there and which are the most cost-efficient and effective?
Kando offers such a smart water solution, and enables water organizations to get a 360 real-time view of the wastewater network activity. The solution senses water events in real-time, detects the source, alerts the water management team on the events coming towards the WWTP and automatically takes samples. This empowers the water management team to react before the event reaches the WWTP or causes damage to the infrastructure. By identifying the source upstream the management will be able to take informed management decisions. It will also support automating asset monitoring and work scheduling, reducing downtime, enhancing systems across treatment plant and network assets, extends its service life, lifecycle and resilience.5
Kando’s end-to-end solution includes hardware, software, and a client interface that runs on the cloud, which can be used as a stand-alone system. The system can also be integrated into existing ERP/SCADA systems of a utility. It also provides the ability for intercommunication and data exchange, allowing enhancement of existing solutions in an integrated fashion. This means, that with limited resources, a utility can retrieve valuable insights on high-risk areas of the aging infrastructure and adopt a proactive water management strategy to prevent any future harmful wastewater events.
1EPA, https://www.epa.gov/npdes/sanitary-sewer-overflows-ssos
2The American Society of Civil Engineers, infrastructure report card, 2017, p. 93 & 94 https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2017-Infrastructure-Report-Card.pdf
3EPA. Sanitary Sewer Overflows, https://www.epa.gov/npdes/sanitary-sewer-overflows-ssos
4EPA, 2014, Incorporating Asset Management Planning Provisions into NPDES Permits, https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-01/documents/incorporating-asset-mgmnt-through-permits.pdf
5Boulus, P., November 2018, Digital Twinfrastructure: Shaping the Digital Future for the Water Industry, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-twinfrastructure-shaping-future-water-paul/