Water leak detection in Halifax for commercial and multifamily buildings
Managed leak detection, 24/7 monitoring and automatic shutoff for apartment towers, condos and commercial buildings across Halifax and Atlantic Canada.
- 150,000+
- active smart devices in the field
- $2.26M
- in water costs saved in 2025
- 24/7
- monitoring center
Halifax is building up fast. The peninsula skyline holds more construction cranes than it ever has, and most of the new supply is purpose-built rental towers that stack dozens of suites on shared plumbing risers. When a fitting or supply line fails on an upper floor, water does not stop at one suite. It runs down through every floor below.
The climate compounds the risk from the outside in. Nova Scotia sees more freeze-thaw cycles than most provinces because the Atlantic keeps winter temperatures swinging around the freezing point. That cycling stresses pipes and joints in exterior walls and unheated spaces, and a cold snap after a mild stretch is exactly when a line lets go.
The insurance market has noticed. Nova Scotia condominium corporations have faced rising premiums and deductibles with fewer insurers competing for their business, and water damage leads the claims behind that trend. A documented monitoring program gives a board something concrete to bring to renewal.
Smart water leak detection meets that risk at building scale. Eddy watches flow and the presence of water around the clock, operators escalate confirmed alerts through the building's contact list within minutes and automatic shutoff contains a burst before it becomes a claim. The same managed program protects rental towers, condos and commercial buildings across Halifax and Atlantic Canada.
Where leaks start in Halifax buildings
Freeze-thaw cycling
Halifax winters hover around the freezing point, and Nova Scotia sees more freeze-thaw cycles than most provinces. That constant swing stresses supply lines in exterior walls and unheated spaces until one lets go, often overnight.
New towers, shared risers
The rental boom has filled the peninsula with high-rise towers that stack suites on shared risers, and new buildings fail too. One concealed fitting or supply-line failure can reach dozens of units before anyone sees a stain.
Rising insurance pressure
Nova Scotia condo corporations have faced higher premiums and deductibles in a hardened market where water damage leads claims. Documented monitoring helps a board make its case at renewal.
Atlantic storm exposure
Halifax sits in the path of post-tropical storms, and Hurricane Juan made landfall right beside the city. Eddy's core job is the building's own plumbing, and its water-escape sensors also flag storm-driven intrusion reaching a roof or elevator shaft.
Smart sensors at every leak point
Eddy places point-of-leak sensors and smart flow meters where water damage actually starts in Halifax 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
- Advisor follow-up within one business day
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 Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia's Condominium Act requires corporations with 10 or more units to complete a reserve fund study every five years, looking at least 20 years ahead. Continuous monitoring protects the water systems those studies price out and gives the board dated records that the building's water risk is actively managed between studies.
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.
Proven across North American portfolios
Eddy protects condo towers, commercial buildings and multi-building portfolios across North America, with 150,000+ devices monitored from its Toronto monitoring center. Halifax buildings run on the same managed program, with installation coordinated on site and every alert answered from a center that already covers the Atlantic time zone.
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.
Halifax water leak detection FAQ
Yes. Eddy serves buildings nationwide across Canada and the US. Installation crews are coordinated remotely and the monitoring center in Toronto covers every time zone, so a Halifax alert is answered the same way a Toronto alert is.
The monitoring center confirms the alert and operators call the building's contacts through the escalation protocol within minutes. Water can shut off automatically or on a remote command, any hour of the night.
No. New and established buildings alike fail, and a new tower stacks just as many suites on a shared riser as an old one. Monitoring from day one also builds the documented history insurers and reserve fund planners want to see.
Reserve fund studies price out the future of the building's major systems. Continuous monitoring protects those systems in the present and gives the board dated records that water risk is actively managed between the five-year study cycles.
Insurers reward documented risk reduction. Eddy programs have delivered premium savings of up to 20%, with deductible reductions of up to 80% documented at individual properties. Outcomes vary by insurer and building, so bring the program to your broker at renewal.
How Eddy works
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 North America. 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.
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.
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 North America, please reach out directly to sghanbarian@eddysolutions.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.