IoT News, Publications, Magazine & Newsletter | IoT Now

Ness Ziona, Israel – Watersight, a water technology joint venture company of MEKOROT, Israel’s national water company, and Newsight Imaging Ltd., a technology company that specialises in advanced CMOS image sensors for spectral analysis and machine vision, have started field testing. This is being done at MEKOROT’s water monitoring facility in northern Israel, alongside the addition of U.S. global companies to its pilot water monitoring programme utilising the AquaRing. The AquaRing is a smart water monitoring system, a complete real-time sensing device for online water condition monitoring for water, utility, and food & beverage industries.

The AquaRing is installed in one of MEKOROT’s water monitoring stations, located in the North of Israel. In addition, new large global water companies have joined the AquaRing pilot programme. The new pilot programme companies are among the manufacturers and providers of water equipment, heating, and water quality products and solutions. The companies are global providers of water solutions encompassing flow measurement, quality and other system parameters giving services for the global infrastructure markets.

Two additional global water companies have also joined the pilot programme, including one already in an advanced phase with AquaRing installed.

Watersight’s patent-pending AquaRing is based on the game-changing spectral chips developed by Newsight, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), and supported by a cloud-based dashboard. The device provides an advanced real-time, IoT monitoring solution that provides alerts based on water conditions. From source to tap, inlet to outlet, Watersight’s solution is smart and scalable at an unmatched price.

Pilot programme participants receive an evaluation package that includes AquaRing sensing units, a collection of accessories, and access to a cloud-based platform. The smart water monitoring system evaluation provides a full experience of testing water quality at a small scale. Program participants work closely with Watersight experts to ensure success and to support ongoing development.

“These new pilot programme member companies represent some of the largest and most innovative water technology companies in the world,” says Gilad Horn, business development director at Watersight. “We are looking forward to working with the new participants as we continue to enhance and develop our product and technologies. In partnership with our pilot program members, and with the teams at our parent companies Newsight, MEKOROT, and Vision Sensing Acquisition Corp., we are positioning to rapidly become a major player in smart, digital, online water monitoring.”

Yossi Yaacobi, VP engineering and technology at MEKOROT, adds, “MEKOROT strives to merge high end solutions within all water sectors, providing us the ability to improve the quality of water. Climate change and global warming provides us the opportunity to monitor in real-time the quality of water for all end users, and Newsight stands at the front of cutting-edge technology that can achieve new levels of perfection in the field of monitoring water quality at any time.”

Watersight was recently chosen as a finalist in the FoodTech 2022 competition sponsored by Calcalist and Tnuva Ventures. For more information about the Watersight Pilot Programme, please click here.  

Watch the product video here.

Comment on this article below or via Twitter: @IoTNow_OR @jcIoTnow