2022 Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
Hydroquo+
Hydroquo+ is focused on delivering water intelligence to drive water safety and availability with actionable insights
One-line solution summary.
Hydroquo+ is focused on delivering water intelligence to drive water safety and availability with actionable insights.
Elevator pitch
What is your solution?
Hydroquo+ is focused on delivering water intelligence to drive water safety and availability with actionable insights. Our unique industry-first approach combines hardware, software with bi-directional connectivity to automate water monitoring, testing, alerting, and data analysis. The vertically integrated solution enables water operators to forecast events in relation to water efficiency and quality in real-time.
What specific problem are you trying to solve?
Industrial, Commercial, and Municipal water users all face a recurring issue- how to monitor the quality of water they use, dispose of, or distribute in a timely, cost-effective manner. Currently, the most common method of analysis of water quality consists of (grab or composite) sampling followed by laboratory investigation.
This approach fails to fully indicate the dynamics of water quality since it only provides snapshots of specific points in time. Furthermore, due to delays in transportation, sample preparation, and analysis, laboratory analysis only reveals a history of water quality and not its current state. Depending on the lab used and analysis required, the results may not be available for days or weeks, making the data unavailable for use in real-time decision making or process control and making it error-prone.
Furthermore, smart water IoT solutions are fragmented, lack reliable & comprehensive solutions. Although point solutions for monitoring water usage and quality exist however full-stack solutions without manual intervention with continuous monitoring plus any predictive capacity remains elusive.
Bangladesh faces adverse challenges in assessing critical water resources which has severe implications on the health of people and overall infrastructure leading to poor water quality and scarcity. Dhaka WASA the authority responsible for managing sewerage and catering supply of 20M residents residing in the Capital has a maximum capacity of sampling 500 lab tests per month.
Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Hydroquo+ solution has enabled water operators to be able to correlate data with several planning models, understand consumer behavior, and understand forecasting patterns for custom operations. As a result, they can identify and get ahead of the issues before they become real concerns including potential compliance issues, maintenance requirements, water usage, and water quality anomalies.
What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?
Hydroquo+ has automated high-frequency testing fundamentally reducing the cost per sample. D’WASA required 7200 samples per month /Area for (Ph, Turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity, Total Organic Carbon, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Free Chlorine, Residual Chlorine) at two minutes per day. Using sample schedules and the monthly cost of the Hydroquo+ solution the sample can be calculated USD 0.01.
Furthermore, we have achieved the following milestones:
525,600 + water tests completed in Dhaka alone in the last 2 years
We have crossed the total number of data points collected publicly across Bangladesh over 20 years
Stakeholders ROI through process control within 48 hours
Agriculture sector to gain crop yield through active monitoring of Nitrates
Pipe Corrosion identification with 40% saving of city budgets from Infrastructure replacement
Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
Taking action to combat climate change and its impacts (Sustainability)
Our solution's stage of development:
Scale: A sustainable enterprise working in several communities or countries that is looking to grow significantly, focusing on increased efficiencyExplain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?
Hydroquo+ has successfully completed two deployments with D’WASA in collaboration with Central Microbiology Laboratory triggering the purchase order of 10 more deployments in the pipeline and has initiated the interest of pilot projects with BUET, C’WASA, Chittagong Port Authority, and MENA region for scaling.
We expect to impact 2.5 million residents directly and over 5 million people indirectly by providing them last mile compliance to tap water. Furthermore, using all the real-time metrics from the sensors will be used to create early warning predictive systems to prevent disease outbreaks under the standardised protocol of health and safety measures.
Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Dhaka, BangladeshTeam Lead:
Zahin Razeen
Which of the following categories best describes your solution?
A new use of an existing technology (e.g. application to a new problem or in a new location)Describe the core technology that powers your solution.
Hydroquo+ combines intelligent software-hardware fabric that identifies water leaks, safety hazards, and contaminants in real-time with 24/7 remote monitoring capabilities that measure, mitigate, and manage risk for operational efficiencies and savings in aspects of region-specific challenges.
Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:
In which countries do you currently operate?
How many people does your solution currently serve, and how many do you plan to serve in the next year? If you haven’t yet launched your solution, tell us how many people you plan to serve in the next year.
A network covering 250,000 residents.
What are your impact goals for the next year, and how will you achieve them?
Health
We expect to impact 2.5 million residents directly and over 5 million people indirectly by providing them last-mile compliance to tap water. Furthermore, using all the real-time metrics from the sensors will be used to create early warning predictive systems to prevent disease outbreaks under the standardized protocol of health and safety measures.
Non-Revenue Water Losses
We will quantify and assess all bottlenecks such as the leaks and fractures in distribution networks arising from aging infrastructure and decaying pipelines in driving up operational efficiencies by optimizing supply.
Water Losses
Minimize water losses through on-site proactive maintenance for repair
Lab Compliance
Ensure mandatory lab instrument calibration to ensure continuous testing during the downtime of systems.
How are you measuring your progress or planning to measure your progress toward your impact goals?
Real-time data-based inferencing.
What barriers currently exist for you to accomplish your goals in the next year?
Long lead times and procurement cycles.
How many people work on your solution team?
6
How long have you been working on your solution?
3 years
How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?
Our cross-functional interdisciplinary team of physicists, meteorologists and engineers is obsessed with Data has deep expertise in analytics and security. We are advised by leading professionals from Goldman Sachs, Dupont, and World Bank. My field of expertise is in the intersection of data engineering and sustainability. I have been selected as 1 of the 17 United Nations Young Leaders in the world to solve the SDG's.
What organizations do you currently partner with, if any? How are you working with them?
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The HP Girls Save the World Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
NoDo you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Pozen Social Innovation Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
YesIf you selected Yes, explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The Pozen Social Innovation Prize to advance your solution?
Solution Team
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Zahin Razeen CEO, Hydroquo+
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Hydroquo+