ECSI, SecurWave partner to OEM remote water quality monitoring system
Monitoring water quality and integrity is a growing business, and a water contamination detection specialist teams up with a surveillance company
Water facilities have two characteristics: They are essential to the welfare of a society, and what with the sprawling system of reservoirs, canals, pipes, and water treatment plants, they are exceedingly vulnerable. The business of water production and purification, and the business of securing the safety and integrity of water supplies, are growing — and the consequences of climate change will soon make this growth curve even steeper. We thus note that Clifton, New Jersey-based ECSI International signed an OEM agreement with Englewood, Florida-based SecurWave to market the ECSI Sentinal Remote Data Processing Unit (RDPU) for data acquisition, on-site analysis, communications, and water quality remote monitoring systems. These systems provide detection of chemical, biological, and radiological contamination in drinking water and report problems instantly back to a control center. The Sentinal systems may be configured to monitor water quality of different sources and uses. Sentinal’s hardware/software system can be integrated with existing SCADA systems. The Sentinal may also be used to provides remote monitoring of air quality for the presence of toxic gases, radioactivity, industrial and WWTP effluent for compliance with standards.
Ed Hicks, president of SecurWave, said that “Protection and control of our most precious resource, water, is paramount in our world today. Whether it is in the remote villages of Kenya or the vast metropolitan cities of Los Angeles, Beijing, or Mexico City, water that is free from chemical, nuclear and biological contaminates is crucial to our survival. Protecting this valuable commodity by allowing real time monitoring and control provides the simplest most effective means of conservation.” We are honored that ECSI has chosen SecurWave LLC as a global distributor of the Sentinal(TM) system.”
We understand that Sandia has been working on developing a remote — or as they call it, “unattended” — water quality monitoring system as part of the Sandia Water Initiative. We will write about it in a future issue.
