Leela Krishna Sriramula SpaceAge Labs Pte Ltd

1. www.spaceage-labs.com
ASIA-PACIFIC
SMART WATER UTILTIES 2022
SMART SEWER NETWORK MONITORING
USING IOT AND AI
LEELA KRISHNA SRIRAMULA
Co-founder & Chief Business Officer
SpaceAge Labs Pte Ltd

2. ABOUT ME
• Civil and Environmental Engineer
• 15 Years Water Industry Experience
• Experience in Operations, Technology Deployment. Sewer
Rehabilitation, Water Supply Network Management at PUB.
• Was in charge of Leak Detection Unit under Water Supply
Network Dept. Deployed 120 permanent leak detection
sensors for large diameter pipes and piloted other cutting-edge
technologies such as smart ball, satellite imaging for reducing
NRW.
• Council Member, Singapore Water Association (SWA)
• Research group chair, SWAN Forum (Asia Pacific Alliance)
SpaceAge Labs:
Climate Tech start-up reimagining operations and
maintenance of remote and distributed assets to improve
efficiency and compliance using IOT and AI

3. Digitalization of Water and Wastewater
Problem
Urgent need of digitalization:
• Lots of Distributed Assets, insufficient real-time data
• Increasing Demand, stress on current systems
• Silo-ed Solutions, need for Unified Data Platform
PROPRIETARY & CONFIDENTIAL
Today, more than half of the world lives in cities.
By 2050, almost 70% of the world will be urban.
Climate Change + Urbanisation causing tremendous
stress on infrastructure

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Regulators are tightening scrutiny and penalties on Utilities to prevent
sewer overflows that pollute water sources. Penalties on UK utilities
Digitalization of Water and Wastewater
Problem

5. LACK OF FULL STACK
IoT PLATFORMS
SOME CHALLENGES OF REAL-TIME DATA SOLUTIONS
EXPENSIVE
TO DEPLOY & MAINTAIN
LACK OF RETROFIT
SOLUTIONS
NOT SYSTEM
INTEGRATOR FRIENDLY
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6. Unified IoT/AI Platform- Real Time Visibility, Predictive Insights
remoteEye hydroEye AI
rEye IoT
Transmitter
rEye
Hydro
rEye
Track
rEye Data Cloud
No-code, sensor-agnostic,
wireless remote water asset
monitoring platform.
AI-powered, geospatial platform
for holistic wastewater / stormwater
network management.
AI & Machine
Learning
Developer
APIs
Security &
Privacy
Rules Engine &
Alerts
Data Ingestion, storage
and processing
• Long Battery Life
• Low-Cost Wireless
• Sensor Agnostic
• High precision GPS
(<1m)
• Retrofit / Wearable
• Designed for rugged,
outdoor use
Water
Solution / Product
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7. Technology remoteEye / hydroEye AI
Proprietary AI / ML
Algorithms for sewer
blockage prediction
Insights / Visualization
Flow Level
Quality
PLC
• Supports most industrial
sensors
• Long Battery Life
• Rugged, Secure
• Global IoT Networks (150+
countries)
• Low-Cost Wireless
Connectivity
Multiple Connectors –
MQTT, HTTPS, Sigfox, FTP etc
Cybersecurity
RESTful APIs
Device Management
Storage
Rules Engine
User, Org, Access Management
rEye
Data
Cloud
Data Collection / Transmission
3rd Party
Data
Source
SCADA / DCS /BMS
Existing Sensors / RTUs
Historians, Rainfall Data
• Web / Mobile / GIS
• SMS, WhatsApp, Email Alerts
• No-code, Customizable Dashboards
remoteEye
Basic Data Visualization &
Management Tool
hydroEye AI
Advanced Tool for Wastewater
Network Predictive Maintenance

8. Case Studies– remoteEye & hydroEye AI
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WATER QUALITY
ILLEGAL DISCHARGE
(Heavy Metal)
MONITORING
LEVEL/ FLOW MONITORING
SEWER BLOCKAGE DETECTION
SEWER CAPACITY MONITORING
LEVEL MONITORING &
LOCAL TRACKING
WASTEWATER TANKER
MONITORING
WATER METERING
CONSUMPTION MONITORING
& LEAK DETECTION
10 blockages detected in
last 12 Months
50 discharge
events detected
Won Safety Award
from WSH
Working with industrial customers
to reduce water consumption by
detecting anomalies

9. hydroEye AI
Case Study

10. hydroEye AI
Case Study
3600 km of sewers
100,000 manholes
Overflow due to blockage (FOG) leads to
Monetary loss, EHS issues and public nuisance.
Current solution is reactive, difficult to maintain and expensive.
Ideal Solution: predictive, low maintenance and easy to deploy.

11. Case Study
Detected more than 10 blockage
events and prevented overflows
• rEye IoT Device (IP68)
inside the Manhole
Chamber
• 2-3X Battery life
compared to other
solutions
hydroEye AI
Surcharged or Abnormal
level due to blockage
Sewer blockage event detected from water flow level trend

13. • User Friendly and Intuitive
• Alarms management
• Ops and maintenance dashboard for historical event logging using text
and image inputs
• Scheduled reports for device maintenance, diagnostics and management
to ensure good data quality
• AI/ML for sewer blockages and overflow prediction
• Over-The-Air for remote update of settings
hydroEye AI
SOME IMPORTANT FEATURES (Demo)

14. Sewer Illegal Discharge Alerts
Industries
Households / Commercial
Construction
Greasy Waste Collection Tankers
3500 km sewers
90k manholes
Wastewater
Treatment Plant
Sewer Blockage / Flow Monitoring
ISO Tank Level Monitoring & Tracking
Inspection
Chamber
Grease Traps
Holding Tanks
Rainfall Inflow
Overflow Alerts
hydroEye AI
rEye IOT Node
Sensors: Water Quality / Level / Flow
AI based Integrated Sewer Network Management
One platform for managing the wastewater collection network

15. Success Stories in Water / Wastewater
remoteEye
hydroEye AI Other remoteEye customers
Other hydroEye customers
Traction
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16. Real-time, high accuracy tracking &
geofencing of construction equipment to
prevent damage to underground water &
sewer pipes
rEye Track high accuracy GPS tracker installed on a soil
investigation rig, sending location data to urbanEye AI software
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Success Stories in Water / Wastewater
Traction

17. How it works
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Underground asset
Piling / SI rig
with rEye Track
transmitting geolocation
every few minutes to
urbanEye AI
NORMAL CASE
Underground asset
ALERT CASE
Rig / construction
equipment working too
close to the
underground asset and
might lead to accident
Web based portal to monitor all
construction activity near underground
assets in real time
Instant notification to asset owner,
project manager, contractor supervisor
etc – on alert case
Setback or geofence
zone around asset

18. Traction in UK
Wastewater Network monitoring – 1200+ Sensors for
monitoring and predicting CSOs
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hydroEye AI

19. Recipe for Success – Partnerships
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20. Thank You