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Akubic’s Insight Platform Offers a Highly Configurable Zone-Based Leakage Approach
Non-revenue water (NRW) poses a significant challenge for water companies, as it represents a direct material loss due to water leaving the pipes without being paid for. While NRW primarily stems from leakage, it can also include unmetered water or water consumed by unauthorized users. Akubic Water Limited is tackling…
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Direct SCADA Integration: Modbus Now Available on the Intellisonde DI
At Akubic Water, we are committed to providing seamless and efficient solutions for water quality monitoring. We understand that getting critical data from the field to the people who need it for decision-making is paramount. That’s why we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to our Intellisonde DI devices:…
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Understanding Turbidity: Why Clear Water Matters and How Intellitect Helps
Turbidity – the cloudiness of water – is perhaps one of the most immediately noticeable water quality parameters for consumers. While perfectly clear drinking water typically registers less than 1 NTU (Nephelometric Turbidity Unit), a bustling river might reach closer to 70 NTU. At Intellitect Water, we understand the critical…
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Why Monitoring Temperature in Drinking Water Networks Matters—And How Akubic Delivers Valuable Insight
Temperature as a Key Measurement for Water SafetyWhilst often overlooked as merely a comfort or consumer preference, for countries such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany, where water is often supplied without chemical disinfectants like chlorine, maintaining low temperatures is essential to suppress microbial and bacterial growth within the network.…
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Akubic’s Pledge For A Greener Future
This Earth Day, we were reminded of the urgent need to protect our planet and ensure its resources are preserved for future generations. As the environmental crisis accelerates, the need to take meaningful action has never been more imminent. At Akubic, Earth Day served as both a moment of reflection and…
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Chlorine – What is it and why should you measure it?
What is Chlorine?Chlorine is one of the most widely used disinfectants due to its effectiveness in neutralizing pathogens, including harmful bacteria and viruses, as well as its affordability 1–3.Within the water industry, chlorination (the use of chlorine to disinfect water) has been applied regularly since 1905 2 to disinfect drinking…
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Temperature Control in Drinking Water Networks
Introduction: The Growing Challenge of Keeping Drinking Water Cool in a Warming WorldAs global temperatures rise and more of us live in dense urban spaces, the challenges of keeping drinking water at comfortable, regulation-compliant temperatures are set to increase. The urban heat island effect, which causes localised warming in cities,…
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ORP – What is it and why should you measure it? Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP)
What is ORP?In a purely chemical sense, ORP, also known as Redox potential, is a measure of a chemical’s ability to lose electrons (known as oxidation) or gain electrons (known as reduction). ORP is measured in volts and for water quality represents the aggregate value for everything present in the…
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Conductivity – What is it and why should you measure it?
Conductivity refers to the ability of a material to conduct electricity. In the case of water, its ability to conduct electricity is caused by dissolved salts and minerals. The purer the water, the lower its conductivity as conductivity changes with the change in concentration of dissolved material. Water conductivity is typically…
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How Akubic Helps Zurich Manage Drinking Water Quality
Challenges in Monitoring Water Quality in Zurich’s Distribution NetworkDue to high quality pipework, heavy investment and a lack of water chlorination, Zurich is a city tackling specific challenges when it comes to monitoring water quality variation in the distribution network. Drinking water is the most controlled food in Switzerland and…
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Discolouration and Pipe Characterisation
A case study of root cause analysis for tackling discolouration through intelligent online monitoring.IntroductionAkubic were approached by a UK water utility to assist them in finding out why one of their water networks was having so many customer contacts regarding discoloured water. At the beginning of the project, the water…
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Flow Patterns in Reservoirs for Performance
By analysing the inlet and outlet of reservoirs we can attempt to understand what is happening within them, for example source mixing or stagnation.Flow Patterns in Reservoirs – Method of analysisThe analysis at Reservoir A suggests that the reservoir is operating as a LIFO structure, such that the water entering…
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Insights from our Berlin Water Collaboration
Akubic Water stands at the forefront of in-pipe sensor technologies, revolutionizing the measurement of water quality and hydraulic parameters. This cutting-edge innovation empowers utilities with invaluable insights into shifts within the water distribution network. By developing a holistic solution for communication, analytics, and visualization, Akubic ensures operational teams receive real-time…
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Rainfall Ingress Analysis
The importance of rainfall ingressAs reservoirs age there is an increased risk of rainfall ingress into the reservoir, this is caused by the roof and lining of the reservoir degrading over time, to the point where water is able to seep through and into the water. This indicates which reservoirs…
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