Water leak detection in Calgary for commercial and multifamily buildings
Managed leak detection, 24/7 monitoring and automatic shutoff for commercial and multifamily buildings across Calgary.

- 150,000+
- active smart devices in the field
- $2.26M
- in water costs saved in 2025
- 24/7
- monitoring center
Why Calgary buildings carry water risk
Calgary's apartment towers went up in waves. In the Beltline, south of downtown, most homes are in apartment buildings of more than five storeys, and a quarter were built between 1961 and 1980. Many Calgary homes from the 1980s and 1990s were plumbed with Poly-B, plastic pipe that plumbers say can crack and leak into floors, walls and ceilings. In buildings that age, supply lines and fittings fail quietly behind the drywall, long before a stain shows on the ceiling below.
The newest buildings are not immune. Calgary started a record number of homes in 2023, with rentals making up more than half of apartment starts. After three years of record starts, apartment completions climbed sharply in the first half of 2026. Downtown, the City's conversion program has a pipeline of office-to-residential projects adding thousands of homes to towers built for offices. New plumbing fails at fittings, appliance connections and HVAC lines. Alberta's mandatory new home warranty covers plumbing defects for only two years.
Calgary's weather decides when a leak shows up. In southwestern Alberta one winter day in three is a chinook day, and the warm-up arrives abruptly. Pipes that froze and split in a cold snap often start leaking on the thaw, when nobody is watching. Eddy pairs point-of-leak sensors and flow monitoring with automatic shutoff valves, and operators in its 24/7 monitoring center in Toronto confirm every alert and call the building's contacts through the escalation protocol within minutes.
Where leaks start in Calgary buildings
Poly-B in 1980s and 1990s buildings
Many Calgary homes built in the 1980s and 1990s have Poly-B, and about 150,000 Alberta homeowners were potentially eligible for the 2004 class settlement. The pipe can crack and leak inside floors, walls and ceilings, slowly and out of sight, which is exactly what continuous monitoring catches first.
Hard water on valves and fixtures
Calgary's water is hard, at 141 to 274 mg/L in the City's 2025 results, highest on the Elbow River supply. Scale builds on valve seats, heater elements and fixture supplies, so a valve that held for years can start to seep. Flow monitoring catches the drift before the failure.
Deep freezes and fast thaws
In January 2024 a deep freeze across Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan caused more than $180 million in insured damage, with widespread water damage from frozen and burst pipes. Chinooks then swing temperatures fast, and a pipe that split in the cold often leaks on the thaw.
Empty floors in downtown towers
Downtown Calgary still has a lot of empty office space. On a floor with no tenants, a failed fitting or a dripping HVAC connection can run for days before anyone walks through. Point-of-leak sensors watch the floors nobody is on.
Smart leak detection in Calgary
A smart water leak detection system pairs wireless sensors and smart meters with automatic shutoff, so a Calgary building catches a leak in seconds instead of discovering it from a ceiling stain. Eddy runs the full stack as one managed program with a staffed 24/7 monitoring center on the chain.
Sensors plus flow intelligence
3-in-1 wireless sensors watch high-risk spaces for water, temperature and humidity while smart meters flag abnormal flow against thresholds learned from the building's own baseline.
No building Wi-Fi needed
Devices run on Eddy's own LoRaWAN network at 915 MHz, a long-range radio that holds a signal through concrete. Gateways backhaul over Ethernet or LTE cellular, and with cellular backhaul monitoring stays up even if building internet goes down.
Shutoff plus a live response
Automatic valves close the moment a configured rule fires, and Eddy's monitoring center calls the building's contacts within minutes of every alert. Every confirmed event closes with a Leak Incident Report.
See how the Eddy system works, from sensor placement to the monitoring center.
Coverage map
How Eddy works in a Calgary building.
Calgary's hard winters and sudden chinook swings stress pipes and joints, and in a commercial tower one concealed leak can damage many floors. Turn the building to see where sensors, meters and valves sit, then run a leak through the system, from the first drop to the monitoring center's response.


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The system
Detect, control and respond, in one managed program.
Sensors sit where leaks start and meters watch the flow. Valves close on the rules you set, and a 24/7 monitoring center follows each alert until your team has eyes on it.
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Detect
Two ways to find a leak before it finds a unit.
Sensors sit where leaks start, and meters watch the flow for the leaks no sensor can reach.
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Point-of-leak
Flow-based
Control
Valves that close the water before it closes the unit.
Valves close on the rules you set, automatically on a threshold or remotely from the dashboard.
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Respond
A live monitoring center that closes the loop.
Alerts go through Eddy's cloud to a 24/7 monitoring center, and an operator calls your team until someone has eyes on the water.
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What happens in a leak, step by step
- A washing machine supply hose bursts in a suite upstairs.
- Eddy H2O under the washer detects water and sends the alert over LoRaWAN.
- The building's gateway relays it. Your team and the 24/7 monitoring center are alerted at the same time.
- A shutoff rule closes the suite's Eddy IQ valve. The water stops at the source.
- An operator confirms the alert and calls your on-site team through the escalation protocol.
Automatic shutoff is configured per building. Some sites use operator-coordinated isolation instead.
Smart sensors at every leak point
Eddy places point-of-leak sensors and smart flow meters where water damage actually starts in Calgary buildings, from the mechanical room to a laundry hose, so a leak is caught at the source and shut off before it spreads.

Mechanical rooms
Boilers, water heaters and main risers, where a single failure floods fast.

HVAC and fan coils
Heat exchangers and condensate lines that drip behind walls and ceilings.

Kitchens
Supply lines, shutoffs and appliance connections under and behind the sink.

Bathrooms
Toilets, vanities and concealed in-wall fixtures on every floor.

Laundry
Washer hoses and laundry connections, a top source of overnight leaks.
Every minute changes the bill.
A leak gets bigger the longer it runs. Eddy detects in seconds and the monitoring center escalates within minutes, so the same failure is contained around minute two. Unmonitored, an after-hours leak runs six to eight hours before anyone arrives.
The leak starts at minute zero. Eddy contains it around minute two. Unmonitored, the same leak runs six to eight hours before staff arrive, and that red stretch is the avoided claim.
Build your system
Design your building's leak protection.
Two minutes of quick questions gets your building the right protection, previewed instantly.
- Sized to your asset class and budget
- Modular. Adjust anything before pricing
- An Eddy team member calls soon after you submit



Sensors, meters and shutoff, backed by a 24/7 monitoring center.
What stage is the project at?
Pick one to start. We tune every question and the system around it.
New constructionFrom breaking ground to substantial completion.
Existing buildingInstalled in existing buildings with minimal disruption to residents and operations.About two minutes.
Reserve fund studies in Alberta
Alberta requires a condominium reserve fund study every five years. The study must look at least 30 years ahead and include an on-site visual inspection and a review of maintenance records. The board must then approve a reserve fund plan and send it to every owner, and new corporations have two years from registration to complete the first study. Monitoring does not fund a reserve. It gives the board and the next study provider a documented record of how the building's plumbing actually behaves.
A team behind every alert
A 3 a.m. alert is one chime. Nobody is awake to hear it.
Fast response is not just the hardware. The technology sees the water in seconds, and the managed service behind it, a monitoring center that calls your team within minutes, turns that into a contained event before it becomes a claim.
Tuned by real events
Built over a decade in operating buildings.
Eddy has been inside buildings since 2014. Sensor placement, alert thresholds and the monitoring-center playbook are tuned by what real water events across our monitored properties keep teaching us.
Built for the building
Sized to how the water system behaves.
Multi-family stacks, commercial towers, hospitality suites, course-of-construction projects. Each water system has its own failure pattern. The coverage map, response chain and shutoff sequence are scoped to the property in front of us, not a template.
Detect, contain, document
Every event leads to a closed incident.
Sensors find where water escaped. Automatic shutoff isolates the affected zone. The 24/7 monitoring center calls your team within minutes and stays on it until it's closed, with a Leak Incident Report on file.
Built for commercial and multifamily stock
Eddy protects the commercial towers and multifamily buildings that anchor Calgary, with escalation and automatic or remote shutoff handled around the clock by the monitoring center.
Eddy at work in Calgary and across Canada
Multi-family
A burst pipe, stopped the same second it started
Calgary, Alberta
A booster pipe failed on the third floor and dumped water with no one there to see it. Eddy detected the extreme flow and shut the water off automatically, confining a burst pipe to a small area before it reached a single suite.
- Property manager
- Asset owner
- Risk manager
Multi-family
An 11-storey condominium cut its insurance deductible by 80% in under a year.
Vancouver, BC
An 11-storey, 119-unit concrete condominium in Vancouver's Olympic Village retrofitted Eddy across HVAC, risers, fixtures and common areas. The deductible dropped from $250,000 to $50,000 inside the first year.
- Property manager
- Asset owner
- Risk manager
Multi-family
Two washing-machine events in one week. Both shut off automatically.
Toronto, Ontario
In a purpose-built rental tower protected from day one, two separate washing-machine events were intercepted in a single week. Each time the suite's water valves shut off automatically the moment the sensor triggered, containing both events to single suites.
- Property manager
- Asset owner
- Facility operator
Solutions for every building
Eddy protects every asset type the same way, with monitoring and shutoff tuned to how each building's water system behaves.
Multifamily and condos
Protect every suite and riser across high-rise and mid-rise residential.
Commercial
Keep Class A offices and mixed-use towers dry, floor by floor.
Construction
Cover active sites where water damage is a leading cause of loss.
Hospitality
Guard guest floors and back-of-house without disrupting the stay.
Institutional
Safeguard campuses, hospitals and labs where contents are irreplaceable.
Industrial
Watch process water and facility systems around the clock.
Calgary water leak detection FAQ
Do you serve Calgary?
Yes. Eddy protects condo, rental and commercial buildings across Calgary and the surrounding area, including Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere and Okotoks. Every alert is handled by Eddy's 24/7 monitoring center in Toronto.
How does Eddy handle hard-freeze bursts?
Eddy watches flow and the presence of water around the clock, in suites, parkades, stairwells and mechanical rooms. When a line lets go, water can shut off automatically or on a remote command, day or night. Operators call the building's contacts through the escalation protocol within minutes of the alerts.
Can Eddy protect a commercial office tower?
Yes. Eddy monitors flow and the presence of water across floors and risers, acts on alerts at the monitoring center and can isolate a line before a leak spreads. That matters most on vacant or partly leased floors, where nobody is there to notice.
Will monitoring help our condo insurance in Alberta?
The Canadian Condominium Institute told Global News in 2020 that condo deductibles in Alberta had climbed from around $2,500 to $10,000 to upwards of $25,000 to $100,000. Eddy's technology is approved by most insurers across North America to provide deductible or premium savings. Programs have documented premium savings of up to 20%, and deductible reductions of up to 80% have been documented at individual properties.
Does Eddy cover office-to-residential conversions?
Yes. A conversion puts new suites, risers and fixtures into a tower built for offices, and the City's program has a pipeline of them. The same system covers a building from construction through occupancy, so protection starts during the work and continues after residents move in.
How Eddy works
What is Eddy Solutions?
Eddy Solutions is managed water leak detection for builders, commercial asset managers and property managers, hospitals, hotels and conference centers, data centers and multifamily residential buildings across Calgary. It combines point-of-leak and flow sensors, automatic shutoff, building wireless connectivity, a 24/7 monitoring center and insurance-grade reporting into one program from one vendor, so a leak is detected, contained, escalated and documented without your team running the response.
Eddy monitors 150,000+ active devices across North America and has prevented an estimated $98M (USD) in property damage last year alone. Aon's independent study found Eddy would have positively affected 58% of water-loss claims in commercial real estate.
How do we choose a commercial water leak detection company in Calgary?
Look for five things. Sensors where leaks start, not only a meter on the main. Shutoff valves that close on their own when water runs. A staffed monitoring center that calls your team instead of only sending an app alert. Wireless coverage that holds a signal through concrete to mechanical rooms and parking levels. And a documented record of every event that your insurer can read.
Eddy covers all five for buildings across Calgary, from a single tower to a full portfolio, with 150,000+ active devices in the field.
What happens after hours?
The 24/7 monitoring center is the after-hours response. Trained operators confirm every alert, escalate per the building's contact list, support the on-call contact, and stay on the line until the water is off and the response is verified.
Will this affect our insurance?
Yes. Eddy Solutions' technology is approved by most insurers across North America to provide deductible or premium savings. Given differences in asset types and building risk profiles, insurance incentives are not uniform. For specific insurance questions related to your property in Calgary, please reach out directly to sghanbarian@eddysolutions.com.
How is the system sized for a building, and what does it cost?
Eddy's team walks the building, or reviews the construction drawings, and produces a tiered design matched to the asset class, water systems and insurance program. Our first step is an exploratory call with the relevant stakeholders to understand the problem you are looking to solve. Proposals come from our technical team in 7 days or less.
You can also get started immediately with our Build Your System tool at eddysolutions.com/build-your-system.
Do we have to open walls to install Eddy?
No. Sensor installs need no drywall cuts. Wireless sensors sit where leaks start, at fixtures, appliances, fan coils and the foot of each riser, and Eddy provisions and configures the meters and valves on the lines that need them.
What is smart water leak detection?
Smart water leak detection uses connected sensors and flow meters to watch a building's plumbing in real time, instead of waiting for someone to find a leak. Point-of-leak sensors catch water at the source and smart flow meters spot an abnormal run or a burst riser, and the system can shut the water off automatically or on a remote command. With Eddy, a 24/7 monitoring center acts on every alert, so detection turns into a response, not just a notification.
How is commercial water leak detection different from a home leak detector?
A home leak detector is usually a single sensor that pings an app. Commercial and multifamily leak detection has to cover dozens of risers, suites and mechanical rooms, hold a signal through concrete and steel and produce the documented response insurers expect. Eddy is built for that scale, with building-grade LoRaWAN wireless, point-of-leak and flow coverage across the property, automatic shutoff up to building mains and a managed 24/7 monitoring center.
What is the difference between leak detection and water leak protection?
Leak detection finds the water. Water leak protection stops the loss. Detection on its own is an alert that still needs someone to act on it. Eddy pairs detection with automatic shutoff and a 24/7 monitoring center that escalates the alert and closes the water, so the building is protected, not just alerted.
Does Eddy work for both multifamily and commercial buildings?
Yes. Eddy protects multifamily and condo towers, Class A offices and mixed-use buildings, hospitality, institutional and industrial properties and active construction sites. The same managed program tunes the sensor density, shutoff strategy and reporting to how each building's water system behaves. See the full product suite at eddysolutions.com/products.
Sources and further reading
- City of Calgary, "The City of Calgary Community Profiles: Beltline", 2023
- CBC News, "Lawsuit nets cash for faulty pipes", March 8, 2004
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, "Housing Supply Report, Canadian Metropolitan Areas, Spring 2024", 2024
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, "Fall 2026 Housing Supply Report", September 10, 2026
- City of Calgary, "Downtown Development Incentive Programs", accessed October 2026
- Government of Alberta, "New home warranty: Overview", accessed October 2026
- The Canadian Encyclopedia, "Chinook", updated February 15, 2024
- Global News, "Burst water pipes could become a bigger issue when Calgary's cold snap comes to an end", January 16, 2020
- City of Calgary, "Water quality, water hardness and water data", accessed October 2026
- Insurance Bureau of Canada, "Western Canada deep freeze causes over $180 million in insured damage", March 11, 2024
- CTV News Calgary, "Downtown office vacancy rate ticks up in Calgary", January 7, 2026
- Government of Alberta, "Reserve fund study providers, plans and reports", March 27, 2026
- Global News, "New rules mean Alberta condo owners could be on the hook for $50,000 in deductible costs", January 3, 2020