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[Checking with member] Centaur
A modular IoT system for urban flood and overflow alleviation which avoids infrastructure costs and disruption, and reduces environmental impacts.
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Centaur is for wastewater operators who wants to reduce urban flooding and overflows to the environment in the face of urban growth and more intense storms.
It leverages AI to make best use of existing network capacity. Centaur avoids acute capital and space requirements, and the disruption of traditional infrastructure enlargement solutions. Centaur is an autonomous, intelligent monitoring and control system to reduce urban escapes. as it is modular, easily deployable and self-powered. It uses radio comms between modules and can be configured via Bluetooth. The central module connects to an internet dashboard for the convenience of oversight and reconfiguration.
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Key features
- •Reduces wastewater spill volume to rivers and water bodies by 90%
- •Reduces the number of pollution events in rivers and water bodies by 80%
- •Reduces overflow frequency by ~80%
- •Reduces peak flows by up to 40%
Profitability
- •5 to 10 fold capital cost advantage
- •Avoids the cost of building extra wet weather storage capacity (i.e. building bigger sewers, or installing tanks), which reduces economic costs by 87%
Categories of Application
Company Profile
By
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Limited
Headquarters
Savile St E, Sheffield S4 7UQ, UK
SDG's of Application
Maturity Stage
- Medium and large scale commercialization
- Small scale commercialization
- Initial market commercialization
- Prototype testing in the real world
- Prototype testing 1:1 in the lab
Looking For
Networking Partner
The EU, through its funding programmes, supports the development of innovations and technologies that help combat climate change, protect the environment and ensure a sustainable development and growth.
Activity Region
Europe
Andorra, Albania, Austria, Åland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, San Marino, Vatican City, Kosovo,
Asia
Brunei Darussalam, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Myanmar [Burma], Mongolia, Macao, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor, Taiwan, Vietnam,
North america
Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States,
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