Chuck Hansen Acquires Majority Stake in Electro Scan Inc.; Purchases Assets of Leak Busters, Inc. and PDQ Scan, Inc.
Company to Provide Next Generation Leak Detection Technology Challenging Legacy CCTV Cameras to Evaluate Sewer Mains, Laterals, and Service Connections
SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 18, 2011– Chuck Hansen announced today that he has acquired a majority stake in Electro Scan Inc., leaders in providing next generation technologies for detecting leaks in sewer mains, laterals, and service connections. Mr. Hansen’s investment in Electro Scan Inc. represents his first transaction since starting his public sector information technology business in August 2011, and will operate the business as a standalone company, headquartered in Sacramento, California.
“I’m delighted to be a part of a company that will forever change the way that sewer mains and laterals are inspected and evaluated,” stated Chuck Hansen, Chairman and CEO of Electro Scan Inc. “Utilities and contractors may question ever having to purchase another closed circuit television (CCTV) camera, again.”
In contrast to traditional CCTV, electro scan automatically measures the passage of electricity through the inside wall of a pipe. Instead of relying on operators to visually interpret and catalog pipe defects, electro scan technology locates, identifies, and scientifically quantifies the severity of cracks, fractures, defective joints, and faulty service connections to determine the water tightness of a pipe and its associated structures.
Electro Scan Establishes New Standard for Condition Assessment
Sewer electro-scanning automatically identifies and measures the amount of electric current that flows through cracks in a pipe. With sewer mains or laterals filled with water, Electro Scan’s probe identifies defect locations with pinpoint accuracy, showing specific defect locations by their electric amplitude. Results are transmitted from Elector Scan’s probe to an operator’s Smartphone or Apple iPhone via Bluetooth®, where the company’s proprietary software and data algorithms display results along the pipe. Reports can either be printed to a ruggedized printer or automatically transmitted to Electro Scan’s cloud-based server. Side-by-side comparison to existing CCTV inspections, uploaded from customer’s existing asset management system to our web-based Critical Sewers System, is also available.
Selected utilities that have utilized the electro-scanning process, include American Water Works, Inc., Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, City of Pasadena (Texas), City of Redding (California), and Sacramento County.
“CCTV cameras offer terrific high resolution video logs of sewer pipes,” stated Rob Harris, chief scientist of Electro Scan Inc. “Cameras can pan, tilt, zoom, and even deploy smaller cameras to crawl up sewer laterals. What they cannot do, is tell you where a leak is located and its severity.” A member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Underground Utilities Standards Committee, Mr. Harris was instrumental in establishing ASTM Standard F2550-06 “Standard Practice for Locating Leaks in Sewer Pipes Using Electro-Scan — the Variation of Electric Current Flow through the Pipe Wall www.astm.org.
About Electro Scan Inc.
Electro Scan Inc., was incorporated in the State of Delaware on October 31, 2011 for the purpose of accquiing certain assets from Leak Busters, Inc. and PDQ Scan, Inc., including all electro scanning intellectual property, sewer data management, and reporting solutions. Printed circuit board operations are currently located in Arizona, with product manufacturing facilities in South Carolina.
Electro Scan Inc. specializes in the design, manufacture, and support of proprietary electronics, and associated software, to identify and quantify the severity of cracks, fractures, defective joints, and faulty taps, in sewer pipes. Plans to possible move their printed circuit board design and manufacturing operations from Arizona or the manufacturing operations in South Carolina, were not disclosed.
About Chuck Hansen
Mr. Hansen is a pioneer in public sector information technology and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hansen Information Technologies, a company he found with his father and brother in 1983 and sold in 2007 to Infor Global. Chuck was instrumental in delivering and deploying the first citywide automated solution for the City of Houston’s SSES Project in 1989 and played a leadership role benchmarking key performance indicators (KPIs) for Sewer Work Orders, Activity-Based Costing, Manhole Inspection, Smoke Testing, Dye Flood Testing, and CCTV Inspections. For more information visit http://www.chuckhansen.co and follow Chuck on Facebook.
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