Utilis Corp.: una start up con tecnologia disruttiva
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UTILIS ITALIAN INNOVATION SUMMIT
Future of leak detection today
Satellite Leak Detection
CEO, Elly Perets
Utilis
2. 2010-2012
Research on locating
water on
extraterrestrial planets
2012
Started to form the idea of
detecting water loss via
remote sensing
Feb 2013
UTILIS Israel founded
Jan 2015
Completed first field tests and
calibration in Southern Israel
Aug 2015
First commercial
customer
EBMUD
May 2016
UTILIS has a client on every
continent!
May 2016
Product Launch
Jan 2017
29 customers, 12 countries
April 2016
First Service Customer
(HERA Group S.p.A.)
Jan 2018
102 customers, 23
countries
May 2017
First Airborne Test in Forli
(HERA Group S.p.A.)
October 2018
Airborne Product Launch
(Italy)
Jan 2019
175 customers, 39
countries
Today
Ongoing research and fine
tuning + developing new
technologies
September 2018
Launching Machine
Learning, AI R&D Effort
June 2018
Launching Sewage Leak
Detection R&D Effort
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UTILIS – HISTORY & BACKGROUND
4. GLOBAL IMPACT – TO DATE
IMPATTO GLOBALE – AD OGGI
Utilis has the major positive footprint – Utilis ha il maggior impatto positivo
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Number of customers – Numero di clienti: 205
Number of countries – Numero di paesi: 39
Leaks verified – Perdite verificate: 8,500
Assumptions:
• Average leak - 2 liters
per minute (industry
standard)
• US1$ per cubic meter -
conservative (doesn’t
reflect the real cost)
• EI = 2,464 kWh/MG -
Hazen & Sawyer
assumptions - (see
relevant presentation)
Water Saved – Acqua risparmiata
Volume: 8,935,200 cubic meter every year = 2,360 million gallons every year
Equal to 20% of medium city (Every Year and growing)
Value: 8,935,200 US$ every year
Energy saved (mWh): 5,815 (Mega Watt per hour)
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M1 – WATER LOSSES
M1a – linear water losses (mc/km/days)
Maintain
-2%/year of M1a
-4%/year of M1a
-5%/year of M1a
-6%/year of M1a
MARKET DRIVERS
DRIVER DI MERCATO
WATER
• Growing Regulation on Leakage – Crescente
regolamentazione sulle perdite
• Collateral damage prevention (UCLA Demands $13M from DWP
for Water Main Break) - Prevenzione dei danni collaterali (UCLA richiede $ 13 milioni da
DWP per Water Main Break)
•Leakage is a never ending problem - La perdita è un problema
senza fine
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MARKET & TECHNOLOGY RECOGNITION
RICONOSCIMENTO TECNOLOGICO E DI MERCATO
Reports conducted by external & independent entities – Report condotti da enti esterni ed indipendenti
Reports
7. ACCOLADES
RICONOSCIMENTI
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March 2017 October 2017 February 2018
2018 Winner of Water First Competition
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MISSION STATEMENT
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To advance planet Earth
resource resiliency
through SAR analytics
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Aumentare la resilienza
delle risorse del pianeta
Terra attraverso l'analisi
SAR
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TWO STEPS IN LEAK DETECTION- DUE STEP NELLA RICERCA PERDITE
All Existing Methods Consist of Two Steps – Tutti i metodi esistenti consistono in due step
Zoning / Pre-localization - Prelocalizzazione Pinpointing – Localizzazione puntuale
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THE EFFECT OF IMPROVED LEAK DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
L'EFFETTO DI UNA TECNOLOGIA DI RILEVAMENTO PERDITE MIGLIORATA
Leaks Types Losses from Mains in UARL (Lambert, et al., 1999)
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Background Losses Contribute to Greater than Half of Total Losses from Mains
Component Background Reported Unreported UARL Total Units
Mains 9.6 5.8 2.6 18 L/km/day/m pres.
Unavoidable leakage estimates based on specific network characteristics such as pipe material, pipe size, pipe age
and pressure zones*
For infrastructure in good condition (ILI = 1)
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EMWD - Eastern Municipal Water District, CA (2010)
Source: “Real Loss Component Analysis: A Tool for Economic Water” (2014). Loss Control, Water Research Foundation, Report #4372a http://www.waterrf.org/Pages/Projects.aspx?PID=4372
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Increase efficiency
THE EFFECT OF IMPROVED LEAK DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
L'EFFETTO DI UNA TECNOLOGIA DI RILEVAMENTO PERDITE MIGLIORATA
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Dati basati su 335 progetti di ricerca perdite acustiche negli USA. La maggior parte sulla connessione condotta
principale-allaccio:
Numero totale di perdite: 2933
Perdite totali su Condotta principale: 1160 = 39,5%
Perdite totali su allacci: 1773 = 60,5%
SERVICE LEAK EFFECT
INCIDENZA DELLE PERDITE SUGLI ALLACCI
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Ridurre NRW significa trovare più perdite di sottofondo di quelle trovate attualmente
Trovare più perdite di sottofondo può solo portare ad implementare una tecnologia
migliore di quella attualmente utilizzata
Una tecnologia migliore significa scelta tra alternative
Scegliere tra le alternative significa confrontare le prestazioni
• Benchmarking: is comparing ones performance metrics to industry
bests from other companies.
Benchmarking: significa confrontare le performance con le migliori altre aziende
INTERIM SUMMARY
RIEPILOGO
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WATER LOSS MARKET - CURRENT SOLUTION
MERCATO DELLE PERDITE IDRICHE – LA SOLUZIONE ATTUALE
Traditional Contract BOTG –Ricerca sistematica Fixed base acoustic systems (FBAS) – Noise logger
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BASELINE PERFORMANCE METRICS
MISURAZIONE DELLE PERFORMANCE DI BASE
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Traditional Leak Detection Method Results – Risultati della ricerca perdite tradizionale
This will be used as the standard against which
all other techniques are compared
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Questa baseline verrà usata come standard per comparare
tutte le altre tecniche
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BOTG VS. UTILIS
RICERCA PERDITE TRADIZIONALE VS. UTILIS
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Cost-leak relationship of Utilis method (curve)
Relazione costo-Perdita nel metodo Utilis (curva)
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The more leaks found per day the lower the cost per leak found – Più perdite al giorno si trovano, minori sono i costi a perdita
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FIXED BASE ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS VS. UTILIS
NOISE LOGGER VS. UTILIS
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UTILIS FIXED BASE
ACOUSTIC
# POI’s GENERATED 504 77
# POI’s INVESTIGATED 146 49
LEAKS FOUND 117 20
LEAKS per POI 0.8 0.4
LEAKS per CREW DAY 3.3 3.3
POI’s INVESTIGATED per DAY 4.2 8.0
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Relationship between cost of data acquisition and cost per leak found
Relazione tra costo acquisizione dato e costo per Perdita trovata
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FIXED BASE ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS VS. UTILIS
NOISE LOGGER VS. UTILIS
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BASELINE PERFORMANCE METRICS
MISURAZIONE DELLE PERFORMANCE DI BASE
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Critical to Identify
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BENCHMARKING BIAS
If Based on Current Leak Detection Practice
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Bias Phenomena in the leak detection world
The overconfidence bias in which a person's subjective
confidence in his or her judgements is reliably greater than the
objective accuracy of those judgements, especially when
confidence is relatively high.
For leak detection teams, current technology (e.g. acoustic)
is 100% reliable. Acoustic team vs. Utilis team not judged
against same standards (if acoustic team surveys 3 km and
finds nothing it is considered successful vs. Utilis searching a
POI and finds nothing is considered a failure).
Selective perception is the tendency not to notice and more
quickly forget stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and
contradict our prior beliefs.
When checking about the normal number of detected leaks a
day for traditional leak detection methods, the answer is only
based on what happens in good days (remembered)
eliminating the less successful days (forgotten).
Zero-risk bias is a tendency to prefer the complete elimination
of a risk even when alternative options produce a greater
reduction in risk (overall).
Let's do nothing/continue to do what we did until now (no
risk) vs. adopt new technology to mitigate a future (considered
long term) issue.
Clustering Illusion is a tendency to erroneously consider the
inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from
random distributions to be non-random.
“You only find small leaks” not realizing that most NRW results
from small leaks and it takes one large burst to justify the
prevention of NRW on the whole.
Saliency Bias is a tendency to use available traits to make a
judgment about a situation.
Visible leaks (“reported”) are considered as part of the overall
proactive activity which is in fact the opposite, it is part of the
reactive behavior. Needs to be removed from the sample, such
leaks are already pre-localized.
21. “A leak with a flowrate of 100 gallons per minute might be detected and
repaired in as short a time as eight hours, thus limiting water loss to 48,000
gallons of water.
Alternatively, low flowrate leaks can in some cases remain undetected for
extended periods and thereby allow substantial cumulative water loss despite
the low flowrates.
leak with a flowrate of one gallon per minute, for example, could lose more
than 525,000 gallons of water in one year if undetected.”
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• Before to terminate my presentation, I would like to give a tribute to the first Italian customer that in 2015 have
decided to test our technology.
Prima di concludere la mia presentazione, vorrei rendere omaggio al primo cliente italiano che nel 2015 ha deciso
di testare la nostra tecnologia.
• The Hera Group met us during a visit of their technicians to the Watec fair in Tev Aviv.
Il Gruppo Hera ci conobbe durante una visita dei loro tecnici alla fiera Watec di Tev Aviv.
• The Hera Group, as on other occasions, behaved like a pioneer by testing an absolutely new and non-mature
technology.
Il Gruppo Hera come in altre occasioni si comportò come un pioniere testando una tecnologia assolutamente
nuova e non matura.
• The relationship with Hera has been going on with mutual satisfaction for 3 years.
Il rapporto con Hera va avanti con reciproca soddisfazione da 3 anni.
• Vogliamo ricordare questo nostro primo cliente con un estratto del Video di Striscia la Notizia e alcune foto.
We want to remember our first customer with an excerpt from the Video of Striscia la Notizia and some photos.
FIRST CUSTOMER IN ITALY
PRIMO CLIENTE IN ITALIA
29. Thank You!
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Editor's Notes
Customers=Water Utilities (at least one in every city in the world)
Utilis has been regularly recognized as an innovator in the water field, winning multiple awards in 2017 and 2018. Just last month Utilis won the Water First challenge in Milan and received a 10,000 Euro prize. WaterFirst is an international competition launched to identify the most innovative technology and ideas to solve the problem of sustainable water management.
UARL - Unavoidable Annual Real Losses
UARL (litres/day) = (18 x Lm + Ns x (0.8 + 25 x Lp/1000)) x P
Lm = mains length (km),
Ns = number of service connections (main to property line)
Lp = average length, property line to meter (metres),
P = average pressure (metres)
UARL equations can be shown in a variety of units and formats. In Europe, many Utilities know the length of their service connections (main to first meter) and calculate their annual real losses as a volume per year, so the equation for UARL used in the EurWB&PICalcs free software is :
UARL (m3/year) = (6,57 x Lm + 0.256 x Nc + 9.13 x Lt) x P
Lm = mains length (km), Nc = number of service connections (main to first meter)
Lt = total length of service connections, main to first meter (km)
The UARL equations can be used to predict, with reasonable reliability, the lowest technically achievable annual real losses for any combination of mains length, number of connections, customer meter location and average operating pressure – assuming the distribution system infrastructure is in good condition with high standards for management of Real Losses. The graphs below show UARL in litres/service connection/day, and m3/km mains/day, for systems with customer meters located at the property line, for a typical range of connection densities and average system pressure.
ILI = INFRASTRUCTURE LEAKAGE INDEX =Current Annual Real Losses (CARL)/UARL
TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON – compare performance and value metrics among Utilis, fixed-based acoustic and traditional BOTG leak detection
1585 projects 26,481 leaks, mains 2385 – 19%, 2751 service – 21%
33 listening points per mile
Data was collected and analyzed to calculate a benchmark for the traditional boots-on-the-ground (BOTG) method, for the fixed based acoustic systems and for the Utilis satellite imagery program.
Utility Services Associates (USA), a Washington state based company has been providing traditional leak detection services for over 20 years in North America. A compilation of projects from the period 2009 to 2018, covering 1600 jobs, was analyzed to understand performance of this standard procedure. The performance metrics developed from this meta-analysis are 1.4 leaks per crew day found, and, 0.36 leaks per mile physically inspected. A compilation of Utilis satellite imagery driven leak detection projects from between 2016 and 2018 was analyzed and found to identify 3.8 leaks per crew day and 3 leaks per mile physically inspected.
In order to compare these two techniques, some standard assumptions were made. These variables were selected based on averages observed from the many projects analyzed. A crew day cost of $1400 was used in the financial analysis. This was calculated based on a two-person crew plus truck roll, and an eight hour work day. For the Utilis projects an average performance of 0.5 leaks per point of interest identified by the satellite imagery was used in the financial analysis.
Note - the full cost of finding a leak must include the field leak inspector costs. This is the only cost associated with traditional BOTG, but must be added to fixed base acoustic system capital costs as well as the satellite imagery service cost. Using the average of 3.8 leaks per day found using Utilis the cost to find a leak is $728. This is a savings of $272 per leak found, or over a 25% cost reduction, from the traditional leak detection methodology.
Correlate listening point density to leaks found
Confirm the buffer zone radius via distance of leak from POI
Correlate listening point density to leaks found
Confirm the buffer zone radius via distance of leak from POI
Not only for Utilis’ work, but what the customer has experienced over time.
The cost to fix a leak is the same no matter how it is found, so cost per leak found drives ROI.
The faster leaks are found the quicker water is saved and the ROI increases.