Benefits

Benefits

The use of TaKaDu has been proven to reduce the time and effort required to identify, detect, locate and resolve network problems and anomalies. The reduction in time and effort is evident when compared to traditional or conventional methods of fault and inefficiency detection. Taking a utility’s point of view, the returns on water network monitoring can be grouped as follows

Direct cost reduction
Faster issue detection and better return on repair activity
Operations efficiency gains
Increased compliance with water loss and operational targets
Better communication, collaboration and customer service

TaKaDu's Differentiators

TaKaDu is different from other existing approaches and systems. Some key differences are:

TaKaDu is field-proven as a live online service, and is used daily by hundreds of water network specialists in many utilities worldwide.
TaKaDu's algorithms are developed (and constantly improved) and tested with a wide range of network structures, topologies, data-structures, transmission frequencies and 'noise' levels.
TaKaDu does not require a hydraulic model and does not rely on calibrated models. As such, it can be applied also to networks in which hydraulic models do not exist or are not calibrated.
TaKaDu provides geo-location information on network events, in network sectors or segments comprising two or more measurement points.
There is no need to add meters or sensors (unless the utility is interested in improving the detection resolutions, which can be done by adding more sensors or loggers).
TaKaDu is agnostic to meter and sensor make / type, and can use any data made available by the utility.
TaKaDu provides a constantly updated 'prediction' for any network element or segment, any time.

Solution

Overview

Water Network Monitoring

The punchline is that TaKaDu can take sparse and spiky data from existing sensors and fold that in with weather data, acoustic data, and GIS data to enable the smart water grid"

Eric Wesoff, Greentech Media

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TaKaDu is the global leader in Water Network Monitoring, providing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for water utilities. TaKaDu's solution detects, classifies, alerts and provides real-time insight on leaks, bursts, DMA breaches and other network inefficiencies. The solution is based on complex statistical algorithms which analyze existing online data from meters within the network (flow, pressure, etc) and external data (weather, holidays, etc).TaKaDu’s patented technology is easy to deploy, requiring no network changes, no additional devices and no capital expenditure. The service is in use by leading water utilities worldwide. TaKaDu’s team is comprised of top-notch mathematicians and computer scientists with many years of applied data analytics experience, alongside seasoned executives from global software technologies leaders. TaKaDu is the winner of several industry awards, including the prestigious Technology Pioneer 2011 award from the World Economic Forum.