
ABOUT KANDO
Kando is a data-driven company providing water utilities a wastewater intelligence solution to support improved environmental & public health.
Kando provides water utilities with a real-time bird’s eye view of wastewater quality in their collection systems, so they can make data-driven decisions to improve effluent quality, allow reuse, and increase efficiency.
The system collects data from the collection system with unique IoT units, using cloud-based AI and ML tools to analyze the data and create actionable insights. These insights enable a behavioral change within the industry and by that improving wastewater quality. The technology identifies events, traces the source of events, and gets early warning notifications. Kando operates in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Israel.
Kando has two advanced digital solutions, available globally:
Kando Pulse:
Kando Pulse provides wastewater utilities with unprecedented visibility over their collection networks, enabling them to minimize pollution, reduce costs, and maximize efficiencies.
The solution combines cutting edge wastewater quality sensors and smart samplers with a user-friendly data fusion and analytics software engine, optimized to deliver operational intelligence in real-time.
IoT units collect condition data from inside wastewater collection networks, and transmits them live to Kando’s cloud-based analytics engine. There, proprietary algorithms transform the data into actionable insights, providing real-time visibility of conditions across entire wastewater management systems.
Via Kando’s active online dashboard, utilities and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can see condition changes as they happen, and receive live alerts outlining exactly what every change means to them. Pollution events can be identified, profiled, and mapped, allowing operators to minimize damage to treatment systems and trace contamination sources easily.
Kando Pulse allows capabilities and analytics that are currently unavailable elsewhere in the market, such as future modeling; configurable, automatic, and real-time event alerts; contamination source analysis, and polluter identification. As a result, WWTPs can operate more efficiently, reducing resource consumption, environmental impacts, OPEX, and CAPEX.
Wastewater-based epidemiology:
Combining smart wastewater sampling and laboratory analysis, Kando’s wastewater-based epidemiology solution can pinpoint and profile virus outbreaks in specific private and public spaces, effectively monitoring entire populations within a surveyed area without compromising individual privacy.
In the case of COVID-19, because infected persons shed virus RNA in their stool up to 72 hours before developing outward symptoms, wastewater testing can potentially identify outbreaks several days earlier than individual testing practices, buying authorities vital time to contain and manage outbreaks.
Kando’s smart composite samplers continuously monitor wastewater flow rates and other quality parameters in order to optimize sample accuracy. Sampling is done automatically, using field-proven smart samplers. Once gathered, samples are collected and taken to partner labs for analysis using Kando’s protocol for RNA detection, optimized by Israel’s leading researchers in wastewater microbiology. Results and reports from detection analysis are delivered to users via an online data visualization platform, mapping infection patterns and estimating outbreak’s severity within target areas.
With this impartial visibility into population health, authorities can act decisively supported by clear data insights, minimizing the spread of infections, encouraging productivity and saving lives.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kando
320 East Vine Drive, Suite 101
Fort Collins, CO 80524
UNITED STATES
Phone: 4243848370
Contact: Anne-li Steutel-Maron
CASE STUDIES
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Learn how a WWTP overcame the challenge of encountering unidentified wastewater events from unknown sources that impact its processes.
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Learn how a WWTP increased visibility into its wastewater network to track the source of contamination.
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Learn how a WWTP achieved remarkable cost savings with strategic utilization of advanced technology and wastewater intelligence.
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These case studies explore how Kando's wastewater intelligence solution helped to improve dairy wastewater treatment at various dairy farms.
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Sassuolo WWTP operators noticed high levels of zinc in generated sludge. Here is how Kando helped prevent metal contamination, allowing the sludge to be applied for agriculture.
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Prolonged droughts and depleted groundwater levels has led El Paso Water (EPW) to develop alternative water sources. After decades operating successful non-potable and indirect potable reuse programs, the municipality will be among the firsts in the US to utilize direct potable reuse (DPR).
WHITE PAPERS
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What follows is a breakdown of some of the key applications of real-time data access in the wastewater sector.
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Wastewater can be both a potentially harmful pollutant and a valuable resource and a vital raw material. It could be the potential key to sustainable water consumption.
FEATURED ARTICLES
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At many US water utilities, the discovery of unauthorized discharges into sewer systems can lead to long and expensive investigations and litigation. Who is the polluter? It’s not always an easy question to answer. Fortunately, though, El Paso Water already embraced an advanced technology that allowed it to track the pollution to its source – a jewelry manufacturer just off Interstate 10.
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Read how surfing lead Ari Goldfarb to found Kando, a company dedicated to understanding what's in our water and using data-driven insights to improve the quality of people's lives.
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Kando specializes in extracting actionable data from wastewater and analyzing it to provide customers with high-value operational insights.
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Our wastewater data holds valuable insights that signals when a community is sick, sad, or polluting. It also offers important signs for when life is getting better. Technology has improved enough to allow wastewater engineers to test and evaluate wastewater for community and environmental insights.
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Coping with Covid has moved up a gear and decision makers will soon receive a new tool that will allow them to take swift, optimal decisions based on accurate information. After several successful pilot projects conducted over the past two years, Israel’s Ministry of Health has begun applying technology that represents an innovative solution for monitoring Covid from wastewater.
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Water utilities have become America’s unexpected source of front-page news, enduring multiple ‘once-in-a-century’ events in recent years. Droughts, pollution, unprecedented cold, flooding, and storms all take their toll on our infrastructure and push services we take for granted to the brink.
VIDEOS
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Listen to Gilbert Trejo, VP Engineering and Angel Bustamante, PE, Wastewater Systems Division Manager EP Water sharing their experience of utilizing wastewater data insights in their journey towards building a wastewater resource recovery plant.
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Discover how you can get a full picture of your wastewater quality status and trends, and know where to focus your efforts.
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In this video, discover the benefits that having wastewater intelligence can provide.
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Listen in as Guy Cohen describes how Kando provides insight into wastewater data.
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Tzvika Fisher, Director of Operations – Kando, discusses project management and the impact of Kando with IAM Podcast.