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Announcing the Aquacue Pilot Pack

January 25, 2012

We’re offering qualified customers an easy way to try our water management products and services: the Aquacue Pilot Pack. It’s a short-term, low-commitment way to experience our innovative products first hand.

The Pilot Pack comes with one Barnacle, a measuring and monitoring device that attaches to any meter in minutes and transmits water data to our servers in the cloud. Along with the Barnacle customers get 3-months access to Aquacue’s Wave analytics software that reports and displays real-time water data via any web browser.

So what’s unique about Aquacue’s approach to water management?

1. Real-time water data delivered in 15-minute increments so customers can investigate leaks, find inefficiencies and reduce water expenses.

2. The Barnacle works with any installed meter; there’s no pipe cutting, digging, or meter upgrade.

3. Water data is transmitted by the Barnacle via the existing cell network. It’s not only wireless, it’s wire-free. No external power supply needed.

4. Aquacue Wave’s simple, graphical dashboard is accessed securely over the Internet so there’s no software to install or manage. Real-time water data starts from the meter and ends up on any browser or smart phone.

If you’re a large commercial or institutional facility manager and you want to experience Aquacue’s simple, easy approach to water management contact us at info@aquacue.com. The Aquacue Pilot Pack is $997 for a 3-month trial run. Start learning about the water flowing through your pipes; there’s nothing to lose and water to save.

UC Merced Water Battle 2011

October 15, 2011

Our most recent project at Aquacue has been developing and co-sponsoring a water-saving competition at University of California Merced. This opportunity came about as a result of a 40+ Barnacle installation throughout the central valley campus. A subset group of nine residence halls (565 students) provided the perfect arena to stage the first biannual UC Merced Water Battle 2011 in a one-month, inter-hall, water-saving competition.

Aquacue partnered with the Office of the Chancellor and student groups: Green Campus/Alliance for Saving Energy and Engineers for a Sustainable World. We provided the back-end tools—web & mobile-accessible dashboards tracking  real-time rankings and water metrics—while the student leaders were the eyes, ears, mouthpieces and feet-on-the-ground at UC Merced. And they’ve been awesome, tireless advocates.

Our goal for the competition is to achieve a 10% overall reduction in water consumption for all nine residence halls. Our strategy: use the Aquacue water-monitoring technology to quantify the real-time impact of the students’ water conservation efforts. We’re also using social encouragement through a Water Battle Facebook page, leveraging resident hall affiliations (us vs. them) to juice the competitive mindset, and employing both self-interest (pizza party) and altruism (a $1000 donation to a nonprofit on behalf of the winning dorm) as prize incentives. It’s working beautifully, so far.  We’re on day 16.

The latest news is: we’ve just published the first 16 days of consumption data into new field reports. These charts track rank change over time, track water consumption and water leaks by hall, and the Aquascore chart posted here.

This chart tracks a hall’s gallons/person/day value against their baseline G/P/D over time and it’s designed to show improvement in a residence hall’s water efficiency, regardless of the hall’s ranking.

The good news is: a 13% reduction overall in water consumption!

The interesting news is: when we added leak alerts to the Battle Site, the leaks got fixed. Students have since been saving more water by their own actions (32,000 gallons) than was lost due to leaks (21,000 gallons.) By eliminating the leaks’ countereffect, the competition’s now all about true grit.

Poke around on the UC Merced Water Battle 2011 site.

Here’s the article from the UC Merced Website.

Don’t forget to like the Water Battle’s Facebook’s page!

Aquacue in the news

November 4, 2010

Barnacles invade Sunnyvale.


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