Grundfos Launches A New Generation Intelligent Wastewater Monitoring Solution In The US, Marking Key Step In Digital Transformation For Water Utilities

• New digital solution ‘Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights’ is a remote wastewater open-channel flow monitoring solution, using predictive analytics, smart sensors and real-time data to help utilities and municipalities proactively manage wastewater.
• Launch follows Grundfos’ acquisition of Metasphere, now integrated under the Grundfos Connect brand 
• Milestone marks a key step in Grundfos’ transformation into a full-spectrum digital solutions provider for water utilities. 

Grundfos, a global leader in the production of water pumps and digital water solutions, has today announced the launch of Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights, a new generation digital platform for monitoring and optimizing open channel flow systems. Powered by machine learning and robust data analytics, it provides utilities and municipalities with real-time visibility, predictive insights and proactive tools to locate inflow and infiltration (I&I), optimize O&M processes, and prevent overflows.  

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the impact of I&I in the US exceeds $100B annually. This includes the costs of sewage overflows, added pumping, and increased plant treatment. Beyond these, it’s well established that overflows significantly impact the environment and human health. The rising challenge of shifting weather patterns and extreme weather events, only exacerbate pressures on utilities already facing challenges of aging infrastructure, operational inefficiencies, workforce shortages, and budgetary constraints. Utilities are forced to do more with less. They seek new tools and processes to gain operational efficiencies and keener insights for prioritizing capital improvement projects. It’s with these challenges that the new generation Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights provides ongoing insights of collection system behaviour through smart monitoring. 

The Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights system is different in six significant ways from the current generation of conventional monitors. First, it uses radar sensing technology providing superior data precision over ultrasonic sensing. It eliminates measurement error associated with temperature variances, or mist, or foam in flows. 

Second, it brings new assured communications reliability with redundant, multi-provider cellular communications, all through a specialized non-voice network. 

Third, it dramatically simplifies and speeds installation averaging less than 10-minutes from start to completion. 

Fourth, the Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights design significantly lowers maintenance through its highly compact (4.7”H x 2.4” D) fully integrated design and battery life of up to five years. 

Fifth, its digital cloud software delivers secure, scalable and insightful monitoring across large and complex sewage infrastructure providing complete remote site data visibility. It stores and displays the monitoring network map. Users can view site details including photos, site data and graphs, and sensor performance data. The software API tools enable fast, comprehensive data integration, such as rain data, that enhances its predictive analytics for identifying developing blockages. 

Finally, the complete system cost is a small fraction when compared to typical level monitors in the US today. Its superior technical features, low initial cost, and low ongoing operating costs all mean that users can achieve high sensor density providing more granular, incisive insights into their collection system. 

Perhaps most important to any new or potential users, more than 65,000 Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights systems are currently operating world-wide, providing assurance that users will gain valuable insights towards a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable wastewater collection system.

Robert Montenegro, Area Sales Director, Water Utility said: “Grundfos is committed to helping utilities and municipalities navigate some of their biggest challenges, from aging infrastructure and rising regulatory demands to climate driven pressures on wastewater systems. The launch of Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights in the US marks a significant step forward in that journey. It reflects our firm belief that smarter data leads to better actionable decisions and, ultimately, to cleaner, safer and more efficient wastewater systems.”

“The integration of Metasphere’s world-class sensing and software capabilities with our deep experience in water technology has enabled us to deliver a solution that goes far beyond basic monitoring. With Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights you have virtual real time visibility, utilities can identify issues before they escalate and make smarter, faster decisions, ultimately helping reduce operating costs, prevent overflows, increase efficiency and deliver more resilient sewer networks. 

“The ensuing launch of Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights contributes directly to our mission of delivering innovative digital solutions that support a cleaner environmental future”. 

Grundfos Connect Sewer Insights integrates pump technologies with advanced digital capabilities to provide comprehensive solutions to challenges in wastewater distribution and sewer systems for municipalities worldwide. This acquisition has made wastewater networks more resilient globally, helping to further address the growing global issue of climate change.