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Meena Sankaran, Founder & CEO, KETOS
Meena Sankaran
Founder & CEO KETOS
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Why is water quality still a topic of concern globally?
Water contamination threatens community health, food production and safety, overall economic growth, and more.
Often underreported is the impact of heavy metal pollutants on water quality.
Countries across the globe are finding high levels of arsenic in their drinking water and/or are dealing with heavy metals like cadmium or chromium.
Water monitoring is necessary to provide access to real-time water quality data and to ensure safe and clean drinking water can be provided.
In industrial applications, water monitoring – particularly of effluent, produced and recycled water – is essential to a holistic water strategy so manufacturers are able to meet stringent safety, compliance, and sustainability standards.
Moreover, water quality and conservation is critical for agricultural applications – especially where nutrient management, water availability, water quality and consistency, or product safety is essential. safer, and more sustainable water solutions through a comprehensive offering of industrial-grade patented hardware, an IoT communication framework, and a robust software platform.
The company is advancing robotics, IoT, data science and material science in the space of water. A single system completely decoupled from a fixed model of constituent monitoring has revolutionised how many parameters and which ones a customer can care about as well as the flexibility with how they interact with the system.
KETOS has the ability to monitor 33+ parameters and will continue to keep increasing its menu as customers get to leverage a one-of-a-kind model in the industry with “water quality insights as a service” at their fingertips.
Real-time monitoring and understanding of water, both quantitatively and qualitatively, helps address both water efficiency (leak-detection & usage) and water quality (safety), ultimately increasing water availability.
What role does the water industry play in improving water quality?
The water industry must work together to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency. Enabling water operators to identify and solve water efficiency and quality challenges in real-time, or before they happen through predictive algorithms, is critical to ensuring that water meets specific quality and safety standards.
What steps are you taking to help improve water quality?
With the power of actionable and predictive water intelligence on a global scale, KETOS seeks to solve a number of the world’s water challenges with the goal of preserving this essential resource for generations to come. If you could change one thing about the way water quality is managed currently, what would it be?
Today, most conventional water monitoring is manual, timeconsuming, and slow - and it negatively impacts the efficiency of operations, yield, compliance, and treatment.
Water analytics will play an important role in addressing critical issues related to water availability/scarcity, conservation, and quality.
Collecting large sets of water data will enable operators, consumers, and policymakers to better understand water supplies from end-to-end; how it’s collected, treated, used, disposed of, and consumed. There are opportunities for optimisation at each stage of the process.
What role do you think technology will play in securing water quality?
Ensuring that smart water strategies leverage IoT technology that is accurate, autonomous, interoperable, and affordable is the key to success. Software, hardware, and predictive analytics should be combined to automate water monitoring and testing. This will help eliminate once manual processes and enable water operators to fully automate water quality testing and monitoring.
Website: ketos.co
