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22 Feb 2021

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Indiana-based M.E. Simpson Co., Inc. Partners with Electro Scan to Offer FELL Technology to Seven Midwestern States

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M.E. Simpson Brings Machine-Intelligent Pipe Condition Assessment Technology to Potable Water, Force Main, and Gravity Sewers, Without Interruption of Services

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 22, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Electro Scan Inc. is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with M.E. Simpson Company, Inc., a leading provider of leak detection services based in Valparaiso, Indiana, exclusively representing Electro Scan products throughout a seven-state Midwest territory. In addition to representing the company’s products, M.E. Simpson also becomes an Authorized Service Provider (ASP) certified to offer Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) services throughout its territory.

For over 40-years, M.E. Simpson has brought cutting-edge technologies to its public and private clients to solve complex water distribution and wastewater collection problems and has built a reputation for providing actionable results.

“Electro Scan’s ability to locate leaks within 1cm and measure each leak’s severity in gallons per minute immediately caught my eye,” stated Michael Simpson, Chief Executive Offer, M.E. Simpson Company, Inc.

“M.E. Simpson prides itself on its long history of adopting proven solutions that offer the best results for its clients. A key factor in our decision to offer Electro Scan was its machine-based accuracy of finding & measuring leaks without requiring any technical interpretations,” stated Simpson.

“Electro Scan’s ability to locate leaks within 1cm and measure each leak’s severity in gallons per minute immediately caught my eye.“

— Michael Simpson, Chief Executive Officer, M.E. Simpson Co., Inc.

Electro Scan will install its award-winning ES-660 pipeline leak detection equipment in an existing M.E. Simpson inspection truck and train its field crews to conduct pipeline surveys in accordance with ASTM F2550.

*Electro Scan supports a comprehensive product library allowing its in-house and authorized contractors to assess pipe diameters ranging from 2 inches (50mm) to 72 inches (1800mm).*

The newly certified Electro Scan crews will be able to perform Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) inspections throughout M.E. Simpson’s Midwest territory, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Due to Electro Scan’s dramatic growth, other opportunities to deploy M.E. Simpson crews outside their territory will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Electro Scan’s ASP business model allows M.E. Simpson to immediately offer innovative FELL services to its client base without the need for additional suppliers.

In addition to the new field equipment, M.E. Simpson will utilize Electro Scan’s award-winning Critical Sewers^® cloud-based application, featuring immediate access to fully processed reports within minutes after completing field surveys.

“Our team could not be more pleased and excited to offer Electro Scan’s unique and powerful technology,” continued Simpson.

The partnership allows M.E. Simpson to offer its municipal clients machine-intelligent sewer infiltration studies, rehabilitation certifications, and force main investigations with Electro Scan’s gravity inspection product suite. Electro Scan is delighted to support M.E. Simpson’s Electro Scan equipment and data management needs.

“The meticulous care that M.E. Simpson serves their clients is the ideal partner want to provide Electro Scan services,” stated Chuck Hansen, Founder, Electro Scan Inc.

“The relationships Mike Simpson has developed over his career are based on successful results, accountability, and a high level of customer service, especially serving small and mid-sized municipal clients. Mike’s proven track record of thought leadership, while actively questioning the typical “business as usual” nature of most suppliers, will really help water & sewer utilities ‘Build Back Better’ as ratepayers return from mandated COVID-19 lockdowns,” continued Hansen.

Coinciding with the U.S. launch of Electro Scan’s potable water and sewer force main multi-sensor inspection product suite, M.E. Simpson will be able to offer the company’s DELTA and TRIDENT pressurized pipe inspection solutions.

**Multi-sensor probe combines Acoustic (legacy listening), CCTV (visual navigation), and Conductivity (pinpoint leak location), in a single in-pipe tethered platform.**

These tethered technologies include low voltage conductivity, high-definition closed-circuit television (CCTV), acoustic sensors, and continuous pressure sensor to allow Electro Scan to offer the same leak location and quantification capabilities for 3 to 60-inch water mains and transmission pipes of any pipe material, providing a comprehensive assessment from a single pipe insertion.

Of all pipe surveys completed in the last 10 years, Electro Scan’s FELL technology has identified an average of 750 leaks per mile and has assessed over 60 pipe materials.

*Electro Scan Develops Pipe-Specific Leak Detection Assessments for Each Pipe Material.*

A key advantage of FELL technology is its ability to automatically identify and quantify leaks at joints, customer lateral connections, and cracks.

FELL technology can also identify “pinhole” leaks from trenchless rehabilitation projects, including Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP), as well as defects at customer lateral locations that may not have been present before lining.

Electro Scan’s sixth annual CIPP Leakage Survey, released January 1, 2021, found that 33% of all CIPP inspected in 2020 showed leakage rates of over 20 GPM. Since 2014, Electro Scan has conducted over 1,500 CIPP inspections around the world, from 40 different suppliers.

Electro Scan’s FELL technology has been evaluated in benchmark studies by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Water Works Association (AWWA), and the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WERF).

Likewise, the German-based Institute of Underground Infrastructure (IKT), UK-based Water Research Centre (WRc), and the Japan Sewer Collection System Maintenance Association (JASCOMA) have all studied and endorsed FELL technology for pipeline condition inspection, with WRc representing Electro Scan products from 2015-2020, when Electro Scan introduced its own pressurized pipe inspection solutions for the UK water market.

Electro Scan is the only worldwide supplier that produces reports in accordance with ASTM F2550, ‘Standard Practice for Locating Leaks in Sewer Pipes by Measuring the Variation of Electric Current Flow Through the Pipe Wall’ and was recently awarded its fourteenth patent, with many additional patents pending.

ABOUT M.E. SIMPSON COMPANY, INC.
M.E. Simpson Co., Inc. was founded in 1979 by Marvin E. Simpson, who started in the Water Works Industry in 1956 and spent the next 23 years working for various manufacturers of pipe, valves, and water meters. M.E. Simpson Company’s mission is to provide technical services to municipal and private Water Utilities in the Midwest. In the last 20 years, the company has worked not only with many Midwestern Water Utilities and has also helped Water Utilities throughout the United States and its territories.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Electro Scan Inc., a leading supplier of machine-intelligent pipeline assessment products and services for the water & wastewater pipeline market, was recognized at the 2021 IoT Breakthrough Awards as ‘Leak Detection Solution of the Year’. Electro Scan Inc. develops proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, delivers field services, and offers cloud-based data processing and reporting applications that automatically locate, measure, and report defects in sewer, water, and natural gas pipelines, typically not found by legacy inspection methods.

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California-based Electro Scan Inc. Wins the Prestigious "Leak Detection Solution of the Year" Award for 2021 as first technology to accuracy locate & measure leakage in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second. — California-based Electro Scan Inc. Wins the Prestigious “Leak Detection Solution of the Year” Award for 2021 as first technology to accuracy locate & measure leakage in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second.

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18 Feb 2021

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Major Southeast Utility Transforms Their I&I Program During COVID-19 Pandemic Moving from CCTV to Electro Scan

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Persistent levels of I&I drive a progressive utility to install Electro Scan’s innovative FELL inspection tool to pinpoint sources of infiltration.

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, US, February 18, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Electro Scan Inc. announced today that a large U.S. Southeastern utility has purchased and installed the company’s innovative and industry-leading Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) technology into one of its existing closed-circuit television (CCTV) pipe inspection trucks. This “plug-and-play” FELL installation immediately transformed their infiltration inspection program with the ability to pinpoint exact locations of infiltration, not previously possible with CCTV cameras.

“The utility reached out to Electro Scan in July 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and requested a FELL technology demonstration in their own system. Surveying existing pipe materials and recently installed Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) liners, the resulting data convinced utility managers they had finally found an inspection approach that made sense,” stated Mike App, Vice President, Electro Scan Inc.

“The field demonstration offered a clear view of how powerful FELL data is for helping set rehabilitation priorities,” continued App.

Facing significant unwanted infiltration in its gravity sewer collection network, and the serious consequences from overloading available wastewater treatment capacity, the utility had been frustrated for decades in using conventional inspection technologies, such as CCTV, Smoke Testing, and Dye Flood Testing, without meaningful results or success in reducing infiltration.

“Utilities everywhere are finding that our innovative condition assessment technology can help save millions of dollars in cost avoidance.“
— Chuck Hansen, Chairman & Founder, Electro Scan Inc.

Costly sewer lining programs that relied on CCTV to certify water tightness were shown to be equally ineffective.

*With only 1 day of training after installing Electro Scan’s award-winning FELL inspection equipment, the utility’s crews were able to safely self-perform gravity line inspections.*

Electro Scan installed its FELL inspection equipment into the utility’s existing CCTV inspection trucks in late 2020, taking only 6 hours. Company staff then provided training and initial oversight to utility crew members, and within 1 day the utility was performing inspections with in-house personnel.

Utility crews could easily change from CCTV to FELL, and back again, in less than five minutes, without the need for any specialized tools or complicated procedures.

Overnight, the new FELL capabilities completely changed how rehabilitation decisions were made.

*Having just installed their FELL inspection equipment, the utility is now completing over 2,100 feet per day to develop targeted rehabilitation strategies and save money.*

“From the first day, everybody jumped right in to help make this inspection approach a success, and now the team is averaging more than 2,100 feet of FELL pipe inspection per day. In fact, they have already completed six (6) miles of inspection work in 2021 alone,” shared Mackenzie App, Eastern Field Sales Manager and Operations Specialist.

“Working with this team was exciting because they know this technology is making a big difference,” App continued.

With a significant amount of unlined Vitrified Clay Pipe (VCP) remaining in their system, the field demonstration remarkably showed that while there are some pipes contributing to excessive infiltration rates, many were not. In fact, results indicated that the so-called “80/20” rule was in full effect – where 80% of the infiltration problems originated from just 20% of the pipes; even from VCP lines that were 50-years-old or more.

“We see this time and again at almost every utility, across the nation” offered Mike Condran, PE, Vice President and Southeast Regional Director, Electro Scan, Inc.

*Plagued by excessive infiltration and with no material success using legacy CCTV inspection, the utility needed to find a better way to locate and quantify leaks in its gravity system.*

“Unambiguous and unbiased FELL data documents precisely where the worst pipe defects are located, and amazingly only a handful of those contribute the majority of infiltration,” Condran stated. “FELL data gives “X marks the spot” clarity to owners, delivering convincing information to make proper risk-based decisions and reduce capital spending,” continued Condran.

Interested parties are invited to watch this informative video on how FELL inspection locates leaks at joints in VCP or newly rehabilitated pipes.

Another significant issue for the utility was the ability to inspect large diameter interceptors, which normally had to be bypassed to complete traditional CCTV inspection. Since FELL assessment never requires cleaning or bypass pumping, the utility is now able to quickly assess conditions in their interceptors that had never before been inspected.

An essential part of the decision to invest in FELL technology was the fact that previous legacy pipe inspection programs gave inconsistent and often contradictory results. Frustrated with the status quo for trying to control infiltration, utility managers knew they needed to find a more reliable and scientific approach.

After the field demonstration, utility decision-makers reached out to their counterparts from other utilities across the country, that had adopted FELL inspection, to verify successes with this innovative technique. With Electro Scan’s unique technology gaining broad acceptance to support both smart rehabilitation priority setting and to document post-rehabilitation water tightness, the decision to purchase the equipment was easy to make.

In addition to the utility’s new capability to inspect its gravity collection lines, Electro Scan recently announced its revolutionary ‘DELTA’ and ‘TRIDENT’ multi-sensor tethered probes, available to assess force main condition.

Electro Scan has introduced its revolutionary multi-sensor Delta probe for use in pressure applications, for potable transmission mains and force mains, offering the same precise leak location and quantification capabilities as in gravity systems.

Several Electro Scan force main inspection projects are already scheduled this year from California to Florida.

“Over the past 10 years, Electro Scan has completed nearly 200 gravity pipe inspection projects totaling more than 4 million linear feet,” stated Chuck Hansen, Founder & Chairman, Electro Scan Inc.

“And now, pipeline owners have the ability to assess pressurized pipes using FELL technology, including potable water networks and sewer force main to precisely locate defects that can prevent catastrophic failures,” indicated Hansen.

This latest success story in the U.S. Southeast is just one more example of how FELL technology is supporting utilities everywhere to “Build Back Better” and “Find the Leak Before the Break.”

Given the long road to economic recovery during the post-COVID pandemic, today’s capital budgets are being pushed to their limits. As a result, utility managers are relying on innovative technologies and strategies to deliver immediate financial benefits and capital savings where outcomes have the greatest overall benefit.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. and founded in 2011, the Company designs, develops, and markets proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, delivers field services, and offers cloud-based data processing, analytics, and reporting applications that automatically locates, measures, and report defects typically not found using legacy inspection methods. In 2021, the company was named “Most Innovative Leak Detection of the Year” for 2021. Electro Scan field crews and its authorized partners have been designated ‘essential workers’ adopting Coronavirus Health & Safety Standards, including appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Social Distancing standards, in accordance with state mandates and CDC recommendations.

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16 Feb 2021

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Electro Scan Inc. Awarded 14th International Patent for Breakthrough Water Leak Detection Technology

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New Zealand Issues Patent for Multi-Sensor Machine-Intelligent Probe for Leak Detection. New Technology Doesn’t Require ‘Hearing’ Leaks and Has 1cm Accuracy.

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA, February 15, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — California-based cleantech leader, Electro Scan Inc., announced its 14th international patent for its groundbreaking multi-sensor technology that accurately locates & measures water leaks.

While traditional solutions ‘listen’ for a leak or rely on cameras to ‘see’ a leak, Electro Scan’s machine-intelligent probe automatically measures leaks by locating actual cracks & holes that go through the pipe wall, measuring the size of each opening using harmless low voltage electric current.

The Electro Scan technology also evaluates pipe wall thicknesses, particularly in Asbestos Cement (AC) pipes that tend to burst, collapse, or lead to catastrophic failure without warning.

Utilities no longer need to rely on legacy methods for estimating average wall thicknesses. Electro Scan's accuracy allows full-length pipe assessment finding soft cement not heard or seen by Acoustic Sensors or CCTV cameras. — Utilities no longer need to rely on legacy methods for estimating average wall thicknesses. Electro Scan’s accuracy allows full-length pipe assessment finding soft cement not heard or seen by Acoustic Sensors or CCTV cameras.

The company’s award-winning cloud application reports leak locations in minutes – to the closest centimeter or 3/8th of an inch – and quantifies severity expressed in industry standard Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second.

Announcement of the new patent is timely, especially as New Zealand is in the midst of a water crisis where the Government recently created a new regulator, Taumara Arowai, proposing to take control of water from 67 councils to be reorganized into several publicly-owned regional water authorities.

Electro Scan’s Founder, Chuck Hansen, is no stranger to the New Zealand water industry, choosing to ground truth his patented leak detection solutions in Christchurch from 2012 to 2013.

But, Hansen’s work with the New Zealand water market began even earlier.

In 1999, Hansen won a competitive New Zealand water & sewer asset management tender, issued by the ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS OF NEW ZEALAND (ALGENZ), later merged into INGENIUM, and then becoming the INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING AUSTRALASIA (IPWEA).

“I knew that acoustic leak detection and CCTV data were not delivering the value needed to protect our water supplies and contain our effluent, and had to do something about it.”

— Chuck Hansen, Chairman & CEO, Electro Scan Inc.

As part of the tender, Hansen was required to build the world’s first asset accounting solution to track all underground pipes and fixtures, linked to his industry standard water and sewer asset management system. This allowed NZ Councils to capitalize all sewer & water assets, recognize depreciation, and track capital expenditures, by individual asset, sometimes representing 70-80% of a city’s total financial assets.

After 27-years in business and serving over 2,000 worldwide utility customers, Hansen sold his company in 2007 to international accounting & enterprise resource planning (ERP) supplier, INFOR Global, for US$100 million.

“Having worked in the water & sewer business for nearly 40 years, I knew that acoustic leak detection and CCTV data were not delivering the value needed to protect our water supplies and contain our effluent, and had to do something about it.” stated Hansen.

“While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms show real promise, applying these to legacy inspection tools like Acoustic & CCTV-based audio and video files, respectively, still do not pinpoint sources of water contamination or sewer seepage,” commented Hansen. “New technologies were needed.”

New Zealand’s summer has already seen a record number of towns issuing ‘boil water’ notices, including Naseby, Pateroa, Te Horo, Otematata, Duntroon, Tokarahi, Awamoko, Cannington, Motukaika, Featherston, Martinborough, Coromandel Town, and Mt Pleasant in Christchurch.

Worldwide, aging infrastructure has resulted in hundreds of millions of miles of underground water and sewer pipes with cracks and holes.

But the use of traditional acoustic listening sensors in pressurized water mains and long-time use of closed-circuit television cameras in gravity sewer pipes, have been unable to reliably locate or quantify leak locations or their size.

In water pipes, when pressure drops below acceptable levels, cracks and holes allow groundwater to seep back into potable systems. Some of that groundwater can carry harmful bacteria that can only be eliminated by boiling the water.

Because leak sounds occur as turbulence is created at a leak location when the inside and outside pressures are trying to equalize, if leaks are surrounded by groundwater, when contamination risks are highest, the ability to hear a leak is actually at its lowest, regardless of pipe material.

In sewer pipes, contractors have successfully fought to keep using CCTV cameras to approve pipes as watertight, despite the inability to tell if cracks go through a pipe wall or if pipe joints have hidden pathways through narrow bell & spigots that allow unseen sewage to seep out of a pipe.

In fact, most ratepayers are surprised to learn that most pipe acceptance standards allow new & rehabilitated pipes to leak; oftentimes allowing only ‘visual inspection’ to accept pipes assumed to have 50-year useful lives.

As a result, acoustic, data correlators, ground penetrating radar, lasers, LIDAR, satellite, and sonar, have been ineffective in locating or quantifying leaks.

Recent studies of Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) – a more than $10 billion business, worldwide – have found leaks can be worse after CIPP, especially if liner bags have not been properly inflated or ‘cooked’ and customer service locations improperly cut.

Since the CIPP process temporarily closes customer tap openings for water and sewer delivered to homes and businesses, precision based rotating blades must cut through the newly lined pipe. If not exact in their cutting, original host pipes may be damaged causing large leaks to be unnoticed by CCTV cameras or simply unreported as most inspections are completed by the same company installing the CIPP.

The problem, years in the making, is only solved by new technologies like the company’s patented solutions that can deliver unambiguous, unbiased, and unprecedented data, minutes after surveys are completed.

A major field trial of the company’s sewer leak detection products were completed by Sydney Water Corporation in December 2019.

To coax reluctant New Zealand councils to fix their pipes, NZ ministers came up with an additional NZ$761 million to help replace leaky pipe networks and other deteriorating assets. Using legacy acoustic and camera-based technologies risk correct location and prioritization of pipes to be repaired.

In total, NZ councils have allocated NZ$17.2 billion for water infrastructure spending over the next decade and overall face a NZ$30-NZ$50 billion dollar infrastructure deficit.

Earlier this month, New Zealand’s Intellectual Property Office granted Patent Number 713053 for Electro Scan’s ‘MULTI-SENSOR INSPECTION FOR IDENTIFICATION OF PRESSURIZED PIPE DEFECTS THAT LEAK,’ filed in 2015.

Electro Scan's disruptive technology is a departure from traditional listening for a leak. Instead precisely measuring each size of hole, by location and severity expressed in GPM or LPS. — *Electro Scan’s disruptive technology is a departure from traditional listening for a leak. Instead precisely measuring each size of hole, by location and severity expressed in GPM or LPS.*

Electro Scan’s new technology is a game-changer that is 80-100 times more effective than leaks found by listening (Acoustic sensors), seeing (cameras), and smelling (helium tracers & water sniffing dogs).

The technology is already included as part of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Water Supply Standard, M77 Water Main Condition Assessment, and American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) F2550-13 (2018).

In January 2021, Electro Scan Inc. was selected ‘WATER LEAK DETECTION SOLUTION OF THE YEAR’ for 2021 by IoT Breakthrough.

The Company was also chosen winner of the November 2020 UK Water Dragons Competition sponsored by UK-based Future Water Association.

“Our team is delighted to expand our patent protection to New Zealand,” stated Hansen. “And we look forward to working with IPWEA and Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) to upgrade their condition assessment standards to more accurately identify sources of water contamination and unintended sewage releases.”

Studies find that for every US$1 invested in safe water and sanitation it yields US$5-to-US$28 due to increased economic activity and reduced health care costs.

Today, it is estimated that 25-33% of Chinese do not have access to safe drinking water.

As governments look to stimulate their economies during the post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery, adoption of innovative technologies that allow communities to ‘Build Back Better’ and ‘Find Leaks Before Breaks’ are good first steps. Besides, studies find that every US$1 invested in safe water and sanitation yields US$5-to-US$28 due to increased economic activity and reduced health care costs.

Contact the company for international water loss projects and Non-Revenue Water assessments, including technology-as-a-service (TaaS) licensing opportunities and equipment purchasing.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Electro Scan Inc., is a leading supplier of machine-intelligent pipeline assessment products and services for the water & wastewater pipeline market, developing proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment and delivering field services, and cloud-based applications that automatically locate, measure, and report leaks typically not found by legacy inspection methods. Follow Electro Scan Inc. on LinkedIn.

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11 Jan 2021

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Electro Scan Inc. Wins ‘Leak Detection Solution of the Year’ Award for 2021 From IoT Breakthrough

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IoT Breakthrough Award Recognizes Electro Scan’s Water & Sewer Leak Detection Solution Over Traditional Acoustic, CCTV, Helium Tracers, & Satellite Alternatives

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA, January 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ —Electro Scan Inc., the world’s leading provider of machine-intelligent pipeline leak detection technology, today announced its recognition as the “Leak Detection Solution of the Year” for 2021 by IoT Breakthrough, the leading business market intelligence organization serving the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market.

The Company’s breakthrough technology allows utilities to ‘STOP’ listening for leaks and ‘START’ using machine-intelligent sensors to measure the size of holes in pressurized and gravity pipelines.

“The introduction of Electro Scan Inc.’s Multi-Sensor IoT Internal Pipe Leak Detection Probe represents a significant breakthrough for the global water & sewer leak detection industry,“ said James Johnson, Managing Director at IoT Breakthrough.

Electro Scan’s introduces the unprecedented ability to locate pipe leaks with 1 cm (3/8 inch) accuracy.

The company’s technology is also the first to measure leak severities in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second.

Utilities now have immediate access to their data, in minutes, not days, weeks, or months – using the company’s proprietary and patented global cloud-based analytics platform. Thus, pipeline system managers can immediately perform QA/QC on new pipes and Trenchless rehabilitation, like Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP), to document contractor compliance with specification requirements.

Precise leak locations and quantification represents the ‘holy grail’ for the water industry that has never before been accomplished by other commercial suppliers.

Electro Scan’s unique technology and real-time IoT data delivery were key factors in its competitive recognition over other leak detection techniques.

“For way too long, the global water & sewer leak detection market has been stuck trying to locate – much less measure – leaks that can’t be heard using acoustic sensors or seen using high resolution cameras,” stated Chuck Hansen, Founder & CEO, Electro Scan Inc., a 40-year IT pioneer of the water industry.

As experts acknowledged limitations of current solutions, Hansen learned of acoustic devices that attempted to assess the presence of leaks from inside a pipe; often allowing severe leaks to go undetected.

In some cases, catastrophic failures occurred soon after internal acoustic inspections had issued a clean bill-of-health on pipes with ‘NO LEAKS.’ In others, untethered acoustic balls were lost, sometimes causing major equipment damage.

When water pools around a leak, an insulation condition is established that can suppress leak noises from inside the pipe, making them difficult or impossible to hear or see.

Recently a large European water company repaired several kilometers of older pipeline where it had found over 20 major leaks.

Upon excavation, it was determined that poor pipe installation and construction were responsible for the large leaks.

This suggested that typical Desktop AI programs that use available pipe data, such as age, material, diameter, and soil conditions to schedule pipe replacement programs, may not be suitable to plan future capital expenditure (CAPEX) programs.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that each year over 240,000 water line breaks occur in the United States alone, making effective pipeline leak detection work an essential need to support public health and safety.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML) have had limited success in the field of leak detection; especially in interpreting acoustic sound waves or frame-by-frame CCTV video footage assessment,” stated Hansen.

“After several start-ups focused on this area, utilities soon realized that AI & ML can’t overcome what can’t be seen or can’t be heard. As a result, new technology, like Electro Scan’s machine-intelligent solutions, were needed,” continued Hansen.

According to Frost & Sullivan, the Global Smart Water and Wastewater Leak Detection Solutions Market was valued at $1.23 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach almost $2 billion by 2026.

Analysts forecast acoustic and visual-based technologies will lose market share to multi-sensor smart probes during the forecast period.

Deciding to pursue a next generation machine-intelligent approach to leak detection, not based on legacy acoustic or visual technologies, Hansen wanted to eliminate external background noise, flow rates, and pressure variations that cause misleading results; or worse, give false-positive readings during inspection.

In addition to using a low voltage electric current in a tethered probe configuration to pinpoint leak locations, Hansen wanted to adopt multi-physics orifice equations to quantify the severity of each leak.

By measuring the size of each leak’s opening or hole, algorithms could simultaneously and automatically calculate defect flows in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second.

Over the past 40 years the world’s population has doubled and water use quadrupled. Moreover, the global middle class is expected to surge from 1.8 to 4.9 billion by 2030, which will only drive a significant increase in freshwater consumption.

Unnecessary water losses from raw and potable distribution networks are no longer acceptable.

Today, the World Bank estimates that worldwide water utilities annually lose nearly 48 billion cubic meters of treated water from water distribution systems, primarily due to undetected leaks and unauthorized connections.

“The acoustic leak detection market has needed to be overhauled for some time,” states Mike Condran, PE. “Well-documented acoustic sensor limitations occur because too often pipe leaks don’t always reach detectable noise thresholds or are obscured by ambient/background noises that cannot be eliminated.

“In fact, leaks that might be detected cannot then be quantified,” continued Condran.

In contrast to using sensory-based pipe leak detection techniques where readings must be manually interpreted by third-parties, Electro Scan’s IoT breakthrough takes a machine-based approach that precisely locates and quantitatively measures the size of any leak’s opening, and which is not dependent on ambient noise levels, operating pressure or flow, and then automatically calculates defect flow rates. Results are immediately available using the company’s CriticalH2o and CriticalSewers® Software-as-a Solution (SaaS) cloud applications.

While the global water & sewer leak detection market has traditionally relied on sensory-based acoustic and visual methods, helium has been injected into pipes to trace odors above ground, again without locational accuracy or severity.

More recently, satellite imagery and aerial drones have been used to identify Areas of Interest (AOI) and Points of Interest (POI) that may indicate potential leaking pipes. Showing initial promise, additional Boots-on-the-Ground (BOTG) are required to validate imagery interpretation and confirm whether actual leaks exist.

While acoustic data loggers and correlators have had difficulties confirming AOIs or POIs identified by satellite methods, Electro Scan’s BOTG low-voltage inspection technology allows utilities to locate and quantify satellite hits and misses.

Using Electro Scan, machine-intelligent data shows ‘MATCHING’ Severe, Moderate, and Small Leaks and ‘MISSING’ Severe, Moderate, and Small Leaks from satellite or drone-based imagery.

Electro Scan Wins 2020 UK Water Dragons Event

Electro Scan’s 2020 first place finish at the UK’s Water Dragons Competition was an additional factor in judging it as IoT Breakthrough’s ‘Leak Detection Solution of the Year.’

Electro Scan’s cloud application will be deployed soon in Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi languages to support growing adoption by international water utilities.

ABOUT IoT BREAKTHROUGH AWARDS
The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to recognize the technology innovators, leaders, and visionaries from around the globe in a range of IoT categories, including Smart City technology, Connected Home, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 3,850 nominations from companies all over the world.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Founded in 2011, the company designs machine-intelligent leak detection products that help utilities locate leaks in pressurized water mains, gravity wastewater pipes, and force mains. By pinpointing leaks, the company can quantify sources of Non-Revenue Water and certify new pipe installations and rehabilitation as watertight. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, the company sells equipment to utilities supported by a Software-as-a Service (SaaS) cloud and licenses its solutions to contractors on a Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) basis, worldwide.

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08 Jan 2021

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Fifth Annual Cured-In-Place Pipe Survey Finds Over 5,000 Leaks, With 1 in 3 Liners Leaking Over 20 Gallons Per Minute

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Utilities Purchasing Electro Scan Equipment for ‘Self-Testing’ CIPP Grew 60% in 2020

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA, January 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Electro Scan Inc. announced results from its Fifth Annual Survey of Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) finding over 5,000 leaks for the twelve-months ending December 31, 2020.

In 2020, 33% of CIPP showed leakage rates of 20 Gallons per Minute (GPM) or more, with only 15% achieving zero leakage – the lowest level since beginning its annual survey. During the year, a 52-inch CIPP liner was evaluated finding leaks missed by Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras. Since 2014, Electro Scan Inc. has conducted over 1,500 CIPP assessment projects covering 40 suppliers.

Lined pipes often leak more AFTER rehabilitation, than BEFORE rehabilitation, not discovered using visual inspection.
— Electro Scan Inc.

CIPP is a widely used method of pipe rehabilitation using a variety of composite materials to reline existing pipes without digging.

Temporarily covering a homeowner’s connection, robotic cutters are required to re-open each service; often resulting in new leaks. As a result, lined pipes often leak more AFTER rehabilitation, than BEFORE rehabilitation, not discovered using visual inspection.

Electro Scan represents a machine-intelligent in-pipe leak detection solution that provides pinpoint locations of leaks with 1cm (3/8 inch) accuracy.

Results are automatically provided in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second.

Continued use of CCTV to accept CIPP as watertight and reduced quality control during the COVID-19 pandemic may have adversely contributed to 2020 results.

The annual survey consolidated results from utilities, licensed contractors, and Electro Scan Services, worldwide. Utilities purchasing Electro Scan in 2020, typically added to existing CCTV trucks, grew 60%.

In 2020, Electro Scan Inc. was commissioned by a leading utility to compare 50-year-old Vitrified Clay Pipe (VCP), 10-year-old CIPP, and recently installed CIPP.

Recently installed CIPP represented 35% of total footage contributing 50% of infiltration, with 80% of re-connections substantially leaking compared to only 2% found by CCTV.

Today, an increasing number of CIPP suppliers recommend owners use ASTM F2550 for liner acceptance to differentiate their liners from other Trenchless solutions.

For more information contact Electro Scan Inc.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Founded in 2011, the company designs machine-intelligent leak detection products that help utilities locate leaks in sewer & force mains and pinpoint sources of Non-Revenue Water in pressurized networks. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, the company sells equipment to utilities and licenses its technology to contractors, worldwide.

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03 Dec 2020

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Paul Pasko, PE, Trenchless Technology Pioneer, Joins Electro Scan Inc. as VP International Business Development

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Winner, APWA’s 2019 Professional Manager of the Year Award for Engineering & Technology, Pasko Brings Deep Knowledge to Environmental, Social, Governance Market

Paul J. Pasko III, PE, interviewed by local media about using Electro Scan's machine-intelligent technology to locate and quantify leaks in underground pipelines. — *Paul J. Pasko III, PE, interviewed by local media about using Electro Scan’s machine-intelligent technology to locate and quantify leaks in underground pipelines.*

SACRAMENTO, CALIF., USA, December 3, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — Electro Scan Inc. is excited to announce that trenchless technology expert Paul Pasko, PE, has joined its growing team of pipe condition assessment technology experts. Serving as the Company’s Vice President of International Business Development, Pasko brings over 30 years of trenchless technology expertise to the company’s considerable capabilities. Pasko’s extensive background in the water & sewer pipeline infrastructure market includes a complete range of pipe inspection solutions and repair & rehabilitation strategies.

“We are absolutely delighted to welcome an industry pioneer to our management ranks,” stated Chuck Hansen, Chairman, Electro Scan Inc.

“Paul’s credentials, including prior project work with Electro Scan, will be invaluable as we continue expanding our machine-intelligent IoT leak detection technologies to the global smart water marketplace,” stated Hansen.

“Paul’s credentials and prior work with Electro Scan will be invaluable, as we expand our machine-intelligent IoT leak detection technologies, to global smart water utilities.”
— Chuck Hansen, Software Entrepreneur & Founder, Electro Scan Inc.

In 2019, Pasko was recognized by the American Public Works Association as the Professional Manager of the Year Award – Engineering and Technology.

As Electro Scan’s Vice President of International Business Development, Pasko will offer the company’s services & products to sewer, water, and gas pipeline owners around the world, as well as overseeing new project work throughout the Midwest in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa.

Pasko has vast experience planning the strategic maintenance and replacement of underground pipe networks using both invasive and non-invasive condition assessment tools, integrated risk management analyses, as well as trenchless and dig-and-replace methods.

Paul Pasko, PE, reviews Electro Scan's Application Programming Interface (API) that integrates FELL data with Innovyze's InfoAsset Planner for Sewer and Water. — *Paul Pasko, PE, reviews Electro Scan’s Application Programming Interface (API) that integrates FELL data with Innovyze’s InfoAsset Planner for Sewer and Water.*

In addition to his previous work with Electro Scan’s Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) technology, Pasko has completed projects utilizing closed-circuit television (CCTV) and acoustic technologies such as Aquam’s LDS1000™, Aguanova Nautilus™, Echologics ePulse^®, and SewerVUE Surveyor.

Throughout his professional career, Pasko has brought a fresh perspective beyond traditional engineering and technology practices and continuously sought to make connections that contribute to best practices for the benefit of municipal and industrial sector clients.

Pasko’s outstanding career service achievements inspire excellence and dedication among his fellow engineering and technology professionals. Pasko provides leadership and strong management on challenging projects, consistently demonstrating the ability to solve difficult problems with innovative ideas.

Electro Scan is very pleased to have Pasko share his expertise to educate customers everywhere about innovative and singularly unique low-voltage technology for pipe inspection, as featured in its newest product catalog. The technology applications include both pressure and gravity pipe systems.

Electro Scan’s probe can determine the precise location of pipe defects that leak and quantify the potential flow rate by measuring the electrical current detected outside of the pipe. The data collected is relayed to the onsite inspection truck and then uploaded to Amazon web servers where processed results are available in minutes for review by the pipe’s owner.

Welcome to the Electro Scan family, Paul!

Paul is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA and can be reached directly at paul@electroscan.com, +1 612 201 1867, LinkedIn: paul-j-pasko-iii-pe-a9a46811, Twitter: @ppasko1, and on Facebook: paul.pasko.18.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. and founded in 2011, the Company designs, develops, and markets proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, delivers field services, and offers cloud-based data processing, analytics, and reporting applications that automatically locates, measures, and report defects typically not found using legacy inspection methods. In 2020, the company was named to Government Technology’s esteemed GovTech 100 list for the second year in a row. Electro Scan field crews and its authorized partners have been designated ‘essential workers’ adopting Coronavirus Health & Safety Standards, including appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Social Distancing standards, in accordance with state mandates and CDC recommendations.

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23 Nov 2020

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Electro Scan Inc. Wins Water Dragons Competition With It’s Machine-Intelligent Multi-Sensor Water Leak Detection Probe

Gina Azarello November 23, 2020

UK Water Industry Dragons Included United Utilities, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water, Stantec, Water Innovation Hub, H2O WEM, Hydrosave, and University of Exeter

LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, November 23, 2020– Future Water Association announced today that California-based Electro Scan Inc. was selected ‘WINNER’ of its recently held third and final round of the 2020 Water Dragons competition. Showcasing one of its largest fields of water innovation technology companies at the November 19th competition event, Electro Scan was one of seven companies that presented to well-known industry experts, known as ‘The Dragons.’

“I was delighted to introduce our game-changing leak detection solution for potable water pipes and sewer rising mains [force mains],” stated Chuck Hansen, Software Entrepreneur & Founder, Electro Scan Inc.

“The Future Water Association Water Dragons event was the most seamless virtual event I’ve attended in 2020,” stated Hansen.

The Water Dragons competition is a unique venue, where innovative and cutting-edge products are showcased to demonstrate their disruptive capabilities over legacy technologies, helping to improve routine operation & maintenance practices by investor-owned and municipal utilities.

With immense budgetary pressures on all utilities brought on by challenging targets of AMP7 and the new reality of COVID-19, innovative solutions are quickly being adopted on a “Business as Usual” basis to expedite returns to shareholders and regulatory authorities.

Interested parties may download Chuck Hansen’s 8-minute video presentation, PowerPoint or Adobe PDF file for review.

“The Future Water Association launched Water Dragons competitions in 2008 to provide an opportunity for companies to pitch products, services, or process innovations to a panel of water company executives and industry experts, the ‘Water Dragons’” stated Paul Norton, Chief Executive Officer, Future Water Association.

Last week’s Water Dragons included:
Chair: Alastair Moseley, H2O WEM & Future Water Innovation Group
Steve Quarmby, United Utilities
Julian Britton, Wessex Water
Dr. Katrina Flavell, Yorkshire Water
Tim Williams, Stantec
Matt Foster, Hydrosave
Caroline Wadsworth, Water Innovation Hub
Nicky Cunningham, University of Exeter

Products, services, or processes presented to the Water Dragons must demonstrate clear & distinct business benefits, especially including how the innovation can make or save money for the utility customers, namely the British water companies.

Over the years, the Future Water Association’s Water Dragons event has gained recognition beyond the UK, to a worldwide audience of leading water utilities, consultancies, and regulatory bodies.

In an eight (8) minute pitch, followed by questions from the Water Dragons, competitors must:
• Identify innovation challenges addressed.
• Explain the innovation’s improvement to existing alternatives.
• Provide evidence for savings & other related benefits.

Electro Scan’s technology precisely locates pipeline leaks, and then quantifies the corresponding leakage rate. The November 19th presentation began by acknowledging the major contribution of acoustic sensors, listening sticks, data loggers & correlators, and hydrophones over the past 100 years for detecting water leaks by listening.

Acoustic leak detection is very often dependent on pipes to be operating at high water pressures with customer water usage causing false leakage readings. In its presentation, Electro Scan quickly suggested that water utilities stop listening for leaks and instead start measuring defect sizes where leaks occur – which are not dependent on pressure, or otherwise adversely influenced by ambient background noise levels or customer usage.

Having already gained adoption in the wastewater industry for gravity pipe inspections since 2011, where CCTV cameras have been shown to be unable to correctly find or measure leaks at cracks, joints, and customer connections, Electro Scan explained how it developed its patented low-voltage conductivity technology for pressure pipe applications for water and sewer systems.

Referred to as a ‘symbiotic technology’, a term coined by James Hargrave, Regional Operational Leakage Manager at Anglian Water Services, Electro Scan described how it created British-specific sized probes to fit through available water valves and fittings to automatically find pipe defects typically not heard by acoustic methods or seen by cameras.

In a separate and significant development, last week Anglian Water notified Electro Scan (UK) Limited that its multi-sensor leak detection probe had passed Anglian’s ‘Materials In Contact’ (MIC) testing for potable water pipes.

Results from a recent British case study were presented to the Water Dragons, showing how several acoustic devices were unable to find any pipe leak in a 170meter (560 feet), 800mm (24 inch) diameter, Cement Mortar-Lined Ductile Iron Pipe. During its inspection, Electro Scan found fifteen (15) pipe leaks to within 1 centimeter at individual pipe joints, totaling more than 2.4 liters per second in leakage.

Over the years, water contractors and suppliers using acoustic methods have inconsistently, and often erroneously, found water pipe leaks though without precise locational accuracy or a quantifiable flow rate. Electro Scan’s low-voltage conductivity method now allows utilities to properly address Non-Revenue Water (NRW) losses for the benefit of their rate payers.

Unlike legacy acoustic technologies, Electro Scan is now being included in upcoming tenders for measuring new pipe water tightness.

Somewhat counter-intuitive for a company whose products find leaks, a major direct benefit of Electro Scan’s technology is its ability to unambiguously identify pipe sections that DO NOT REQUIRE repair or rehabilitation. Thus, utilities will avoid costly CAPEX spending for water mains or rising mains that simply do not warrant repair or replacement.

Competition at last week’s Water Dragons event included a diverse field of water technology innovations:
1. Aqualogic – Virtual domestic water audit.
2. Liverpool John Moores University – An innovative design for a separate sewer system.
3. Leakwatch Systems – Property water security system.
4. Electro Scan Inc. – Machine-intelligent multi-sensor pressurised leak detection [WINNER].
5. Scanscor Ltd – Non-contact corrosion scanning for water pipes.
6. Strathkelvin Instruments Ltd – Online toxicity detection at wastewater treatment works.
7. Waterscan – Flowmotion water consumption savings.

While Electro Scan has caused a major disruption in the wastewater legacy CCTV inspection market, where the company has demonstrated how visual inspection substantially mis-catalogs defective & leaking joints and cracks, the addition of its own high resolution camera as part of its multi-sensor water leak detection solution, is positioning the company, with its authorized partners, to become the largest provider of CCTV inspection for the pressurized water market.

Rather than incorrectly identifying pressure pipe leaks, CCTV traversing pressurized pipes represents an invaluable navigational aid and can show debris deposits, excessive tuberculation, and valve positions that may not been previously located, and hinder the Electro Scan leak detection. In addition, the camera images document illegal tap connections that may exist, represented by non-standard or forced connections into pressure mains.

The combination with Electro Scan’s electric current-based sensor and high-definition camera allows framework contractors and water utilities to locate and quantify all leaks immediately following each survey and before leaving the project location.

Last week’s event was the third and final competition of 2020, with a final competition in early 2021 to determine the overall 2020 Water Dragons Champion.

Prior 2020 Water Dragon rounds, or heats, and their winners were:

HEAT #1
Water Dragons held at Floodex 2020 – 26 February 2020
Heat winner – Radio Data Networks, with their sewer flow regulator
Audience Winner – Rescaype UK Ltd., with their micronised, biodegradable, water-soluble polymer for soil amelioration/conditioning

HEAT #2
Water Dragons held at the Future Water 2050 Innovation Strategy Session – 30 July 2020
Heat Winner – Qinov8 with their AQUAPEA^® small diameter pipe leak prevention device.

HEAT #3
Water Dragons held at the Future Water Association Conference – 19 November 2020
Heat Winner – Electro Scan Inc. with their Machine-Intelligent Multi-Sensor DELTA Pressurised Leak Detection Solution.

“We congratulate all of the participants that showed amazing products and enthusiasm for their respective markets,” stated Hansen. “I look forward to participating in the Finals in early 2021 and show all attendees how valuable our leak detection data is for all utilities.”

Hansen has enjoyed 40 years serving the worldwide water industry. Prior to founding Electro Scan Inc., Hansen was majority owner of Hansen Information Technologies, a leading provider of asset management system for the water industry with over 2,000 utilities, including 16 of the top 20 U.S. cities as customers. The company was sold to Golden Gate Capital and Infor Global in 2007. Now dedicated to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments in the water sector through Hansen Investment Holdings, LLC, Hansen also enjoys his off time as an instrument-rated pilot and professional saxophonist, regularly appearing with major artists and bands.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. and founded in 2011, the Company designs, develops, and markets proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, delivers field services, and offers cloud-based data processing, analytics, and reporting applications that automatically locates, measures, and report defects typically not found using legacy inspection methods. In 2020, the company was named to Government Technology’s esteemed GovTech 100 list for the second year in row. Electro Scan field crews and its authorized partners have been designated ‘essential workers’ adopting Coronavirus Health & Safety Standards, including appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Social Distancing standards, in accordance with state mandates and CDC recommendations.

21 Nov 2020

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Electro Scan’s new Multi-sensor for Water Leak Detection

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Exciting news for British and European water utilities from Electro Scan Inc. Announcing the rollout of the industry’s most accurate, reliable, and repeatable multi-sensor leak detection solution. The new product features our patented flagship low voltage conductivity technology, including #CCTV camera for navigation, and #acoustic sensor, providing an estimated LITERS PER SECOND or GALLONS PER MINUTE leakage rate for each leak.

Designed for pressurized water mains and rising (force) mains, without service interruption, this product is also the only #AWWA #M77 solution able to test #CIPP.

Let’s face it, water utilities have complained for a very long time about how existing tethered & untethered acoustic in-pipe leak detection tools either didn’t work, got lost, or worse, never found any leaks.

In contrast, Electro Scan’s water probe finds & measures leaks in all pipe materials, especially plastic, with 1cm accuracy.

After completing over 1,000 pressurized water insertions with WRc plc‘s #Sahara & supervising #Electroscan sewer leak detection projects, we are delighted to have Bradley Weston, Director at Electro Scan (UK) Ltd., onboard in Great Britain and hiring his EU & UK team.

#leakdetection #lvc #fell #leaks #water

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17 Nov 2020

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Electro Scan Announces Results for Landmark 14-Mile North American Benchmark Comparing CCTV v. FELL Inspection on Same Sewer Mains

Gina Azarello November 17, 2020

Electro Scan Inc. announced results today for a landmark 14-mile North American pipeline benchmark study, comparing Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) inspection results using National Association of Sewer Service Companies (NASSCO) Pipe Assessment Certification Program (PACP) codes, against Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) inspection results that was completed in accordance with ASTM F2550, Standard Practice for Locating Leaks in Sewer Pipes By Measuring the Variation of Electric Current Flow Through the Pipe Wall.

The project was conducted between August 2019 and March 2020, which assessed 322 gravity sewer mains, totaling 74,000 linear feet (LF), and included over 1,800 customer tap connections to the sewer mains.

Pipe diameters ranged from 8 to 12 inches for nearly 90% of the study area, while the remaining sewer main sizes varied up to 27 inches in diameter.

The study’s primary purpose was to directly compare CCTV and FELL inspection results with respect to documenting infiltration sources in sewers mains for this utility that is operating under an Environmental Protection Agency Consent Decree.

The company notes that this study is the first major evaluation of its kind to identify infiltration sources by comparing the more conventional CCTV inspection results to the innovative FELL technique.

Importantly, FELL inspection quantified potential infiltration flow rates in Gallons per Minute for all sewer mains defects as well as at each tap connection. This is not true of CCTV inspection which, except for making estimates by operators from leaks only if visible at the time of inspection, cannot quantify infiltration flow rates.

Municipal engineers and consultants that would like to read the Key Findings and Executive Summary of the study should visit the Case Study here. Additional details of this CCTV-FELL North American benchmark study may be requested by contacting Electro Scan Inc.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.

Electro Scan Inc., a leading supplier of machine-intelligent pipeline assessment products and services for the water & wastewater market. Named to Government Technology’s esteemed 2020 GovTech 100 list for the second straight year, Electro Scan develops proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, capable of delivering on module mobile electronic in-pipe platforms, supporting a cloud-based architecture that automatically locates, measures, and reports defects in new and existing sewer, water, and natural gas pipelines, typically not found by legacy inspection methods.

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11 Nov 2020

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Electro Scan Appoints T4S as ‘UK Smart Wireless Provider’ Supporting Its Award Winning Water Leak Detection Solution

Gina Azarello November 11, 2020

Track4Services Ltd. Supports Electro Scan’s Acoustic, Video, and Data Collection from Challenging Locations Throughout the United Kingdom

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA, November 11, 2020 — Electro Scan Inc. announced today that it has appointed Track4Services Ltd. (T4S) as its ‘Smart Wireless Provider’ to serve the UK water industry supporting its award-winning Multi-Sensor Water & Sewer Leak Detection solutions.

All Electro Scan inspection vans have installed licensed T4S wireless equipment to easily and efficiently transmit acoustic, video, and proprietary geocoded leak locations to Electro Scan’s cloud for water utility decision support and contractor water tightness testing.

“We are delighted to standardize our UK leak detection fleet on the advanced wireless solutions from T4S,” stated Chuck Hansen, Managing Director, Electro Scan (UK) Limited.

Track4Services hub portal — Track4Services (T4S) Hub Portal allows Electro Scan to track all its inspection vans, identifying specific signal strengths and boosting available Wi-Fi using its Smart Hub Communication technology.

Partnered with Vodafone since 2014, T4S was founded in London in 2011, the same year as Electro Scan Inc., with R&D facilities in Tampere, Finland.

A key factor in selecting T4S as its ‘UK Smart Wireless Provider’ was their proven UK geo connectivity coverage of 99.8%, compared to their rivals of 74%.

“In these times we are all being expected to do more with less resources. The answer to that conundrum is to innovate. We are delighted to serve the needs of such a forward-thinking clean tech organization, like Electro Scan, that is helping the UK water industry target its water losses,” stated Derek Greene, CEO, Track4Services Ltd.

“Electro Scan brings sweeping change to the global leak detection market, and given the challenging UK topology, we are delighted to be working with Derek Greene & other members of the T4S team to transmit large audio, video, and point cloud data intelligence from the field,” stated Hansen.

Legacy leak detection techniques have often delivered inconsistent, unreliable, and incomplete results.

Today, many water utilities, regulators, and contractors now realize that legacy leak detection methods are finding low-quality leaks that may compromise rehabilitation selection and are unable to certify new pipelines as watertight.

All leaks are located and measured in Gallons per Minute or Liters per Second, without relying on ‘seeing’ or ‘hearing’ defects at Joints, Customer Tap Locations, or Pipe Walls.

While utilities are deploying thousands of intelligent sensors to track down water losses to critical District Metered Areas (DMAs), the inability to quickly and effectively find where “X” marks the spot for major leaks causing high level of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) has been elusive.

Often taking hours, days, or weeks to isolate leak locations, by contrast, Electro Scan’s in-pipe machine-intelligent leak detection solution pinpoints specific locations in minutes, providing an estimated liters per second (LPS) or gallons per minute (GPM) for each leak.

Wireless equipment in Electro Scan’s UK inspection vans join a growing list of T4S water industry customers, including DEFRA, Environment Agency, Wessex Water, and Scottish Water.

“Data transmissions have been swift since installing the T4S equipment in our vans,” stated Brad Weston, Director, Electro Scan (UK) Limited.

“What I like most about T4S is the ability to be over 50 meters away from our vans and still have Wi-Fi coverage,” adds Weston. “Its a great relief not to worry about data communications, anywhere at anytime in the UK.”

ABOUT TRACK4SERVICES LTD
Track4Services (T4S) specializes in delivering consistent and reliable communications allowing organizations to deliver actionable intelligence from the field in an entirely new way. Revolutionizing the workplace by bringing the latest mobile technology to field/outdoor operations, T4S can be used by every person in an organization, each with their own data profile allowing companies to communicate with workforces via WiFi calling even when there is no signal on their mobile phone, amalgamate data, streamline reporting and share knowledge site to site and site to office and many more applications.

ABOUT ELECTRO SCAN INC.
Electro Scan Inc., a leading supplier of machine-intelligent pipeline assessment products and services for the water & wastewater market. Named to Government Technology’s esteemed 2020 GovTech 100 list for the second straight year, Electro Scan develops proprietary pipe condition assessment equipment, capable of delivering on module mobile electronic in-pipe platforms, supporting a cloud-based architecture that automatically locates, measures, and reports defects in new and existing sewer, water, and natural gas pipelines, typically not found by legacy inspection methods.

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