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Discover, Track and Know Where, When and How Your Water is Being Used (or Leaked), 24/7

Leaks and pipe breaks can and do happen at any time. While some are obvious, others can go unnoticed for a very long time, causing significant damage and racking up high water bills before the problem is discovered and repaired.

To create a comprehensive water management solution, you need a thorough understanding of all water consumption, going beyond normal usage to include leaks, breaks and unauthorized usage. HydroPoint WaterCompass is one solution that can help.

WaterCompass is a non-invasive, clamp-on leak and flow monitoring solution that provides detailed data, analysis and alerts. You can monitor the water use of one site or across an entire portfolio from a single dashboard, including domestic water (bathrooms, kitchen, drinking fountains, etc.), cooling towers, irrigation systems and water-based fire suppression systems.

You also gain the expertise of our Hydro Analysts. They keep an eye on anomalies and proactively reach out when issues arise. Property managers, facilities engineers and management and sustainability professionals find WaterCompass an ideal way to stay on top of water use and receive timely alerts when there is a site leak or break.

“WaterCompass helps us spot and rectify small problems before they become large. We can check WaterCompass and see if we have a reduction in water usage. The heat map of hour-by-hour usage lets me see almost instantaneously if we’ve resolved or even partially resolved an issue.” — Senior Facilities Manager

LEAKS AND BREAKS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES
To give you an idea of what other companies have experienced, here are some real-world examples of how HydroPoint WaterCompass customers have been able to detect and monitor a wide variety of leaks.

Slow Leak: The manager of several Texas-based apartment complexes noticed an increasing water and sewer bill at one of the company’s sites. The bill continued to slowly climb from $12,000 per month to $17,000 per month. WaterCompass was installed and a leak was discovered inside the vault of the backflow preventer. After repairs, average daily usage per apartment declined from 162 gallons to 124 gallons, and the monthly bill declined by $4,000.

Big Leak: A small commercial building installed WaterCompass to monitor the main domestic water meter. Within a few months of installation, the daily alert level was exceeded, sending a notification to key personnel within minutes. Building engineers tracked the excessive usage to an underground leak caused by a broken pipe. For every day the leak went unnoticed, the company would have needlessly spent nearly $1,400.

Cooling Tower Malfunction: WaterCompass was installed on a 350,000-square foot building. Within days it detected water use that exceeded alert levels by 40,000 gallons. Both managers were instantly notified. They quickly discovered that the valve controlling make-up water to a cooling tower had malfunctioned. The continuous overflow of water would have cost nearly $550 for every day it was left undetected.

“With WaterCompass, we discovered leaks and breaks, even domestic breaks on our corporate campus, that were impossible to detect with battery operated timers. One area was leaking as much as 5 gallons a minute, probably for years. That equates to 300 gallons an hour, 7200 gallons a day, and 2,628,000 gallons a year.” — Chad Sutton, Water Resource Manager, Gachina Landscape Management

WaterCompass provides the visibility and analytics you need to:

  • Detect leaks, unauthorized usage and anomalies
  • Monitor and analyze performance for one building or portfolio-wide
  • Receive alerts about catastrophic or uncontrolled water loss with real-time information by meter, time, day and more • Receive notifications if daily water usage increases
  • Use data and benchmarks to identify and confirm pre-existing leaks

Flow and leak detection is a key part of smart water management. Continuously measuring domestic, irrigation and cooling tower water meters and alerting the appropriate personnel to excessive or abnormal use, in real time, can stop uncontrolled water loss, conserving precious resources and saving both time and money.