Eddy on course-of-construction leak detection and prevention

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to another one of our webinar sessions.

This time, we're going to, have everything focused more on, the construction segment.

But we'll do a bit of a recap for everyone that doesn't know Eddy, a bit about our products, then get into some of the deployment recommendations, and, leave some time for q and a. So I do encourage everybody to enter in some questions, into the chat.

My team on the back end will, will then bring up those questions. When we get to the end, I'll do my best to get through, through all of them. So we'll get into the, presentation today. As mentioned, this is, strategies for leak detection in commercial properties that are under construction.

So bit of, intro to Eddy and myself.

We'll take thirty, forty minutes on the presentation and then leave some time for q and a. So for those that don't know me, I'm a second generation plumber. Been in the plumbing and mechanical industry for about twenty years now.

Also, about ten years ago, had founded, a controls company that was acquired by Eddy Solutions.

And today, working for Eddy as the COO, we are essentially and my team responsible for the overall design, delivery, and service of the Eddy systems.

So one of the first things I wanted to do was just play a quick recap of video, which I think really hits home Eddy's value, what we actually do for our customers.

And so I'll I'll let that play.

When an alert is triggered, we follow-up immediately.

Hello. This is Rachel from Eddy Solutions. We received an alert from a water sensor located in the mechanical room on the twenty second floor behind the air unit.

K. Yeah. I'm just running up the stairs right now. I saw the email come through.

Hi. It's calling from I'm up here on twenty three. Is there any way that you can shut the water off? Yeah. Or twenty two, I mean.

Okay. Sure. I can shut off the water for you. Do you know what caused the leak?

It's coming out of the backwash station.

The pressure is slowly decreasing now.

Okay. Okay. We've got less, pressure now pressure now.

We still have slow. It's just less now.

The water stopped? The water stopped.

Hang on one second. Yeah. The water stopped. Perfect. Thank you.

At Eddy Solutions, we go beyond technology. With twenty four seven monitoring and real time assistance, we ensure that alerts don't turn into costly disasters.

I must have heard that video over a hundred times now, but it still puts a smile on my face. And, again, it's a really quick way to describe what Eddy does, the value that we provide to our customers. And so to give more color to this example, it was a, newly built building, out in Winnipeg.

They had experienced a leak there on the mechanical penthouse.

And so, of course, prior to that, water had struck a sensor, created an alert, which would have gone to that operator through an email or text.

It then initiates our call center, which I think is really the key of a lot of the value that we're providing, to call that predefined list of personnel at the building and get them to action a resolution. And so in this case here, of course, he advised, the lady there as to the exact location of the leak.

They went to investigate, and we follow-up quite persistently to understand if they need additional support and service. In this case, they actually had requested that the entire building be turned off. And so, again, we're able to do that remotely through the app, but we'll get into, some of the details around the dashboards and apps today. Before that, just give a bit of an intro to Eddy for anyone that doesn't know us.

Company's been around for about ten years.

Today, we work with many of the leading developers, across Canada and the US. Those are our two real focus markets. We also work with a lot of industry partners just to make implementing our solution, more seamless. we're we're not trying to change the way people do business.

So whether you're planning to submeter, of course, you're gonna need insurance.

You may be going with a smart building platform.

Whatever usual thing that our builders and developers are planning, we find that we can often just seamlessly integrate, directly into that entire business model and their actual system.

As far as, equipments, we're we're now, a hundred thousand devices in the field, which was a huge milestone for us, couple weeks ago.

Over a hundred properties being protected and monitored, and year to date, over thirty million dollars in annual savings in water damage. And so I know there's a statistic.

There was five billion dollars in construction related losses or water related losses in construction, and I think it was twelve or fourteen billion in an operating building. So clearly a major issue, in the in the built environment. So before I get into, how do we help a builder, derisk their job site, you obviously need to know, how our technology works at a relatively high level. So one of the main things that we look at is what does the technology need to be able to do to perform and provide the solution for leak detection.

And, I see that falling into these three buckets. So we need to have a solution that's modular. people have large buildings and small buildings and, small deployments or lighter deployments and heavier deployments based on goals and budgets. And so having a system that's customizable, is certainly gonna make it easier to implement into the building.

Every building is different. Every client's different.

The other thing is we wanna make sure these are enterprise grade products, high performing products, proven, and work well in a built environment with concrete and rebar, but also importantly comes with the service and support that's required to actually make this, a proper deployment and a deployment that works.

And lastly, just being cost effective. We gotta make sure again because we're able to customize solutions that we're able to meet any budget.

Big part of how we do this is minimizing the cabling and power requirements.

Some of our products are powered on the same communication cable, so you don't need power and communication. Some of the products are battery powered five to seven years, very easy to deploy, easy to move around, and so, therefore, easy to service.

The other, item here would be there are three primary functions of any deployment that, we're a part of. And so as somebody building a building, you don't only want sensor detection.

You may also need the ability to actually turn water off. And you may also wanna use flow information, flow data to understand what's happening in the building. And so if we have those three functions, the three features that end up being utilized are, automation, so having a flow or sensor alert trigger water turning off, again, receiving those alerts through text, email, or the call center, and then having, the ability to download or request reports, on things like water consumption, frequency of leaks by location, by appliance.

We've have a ton of different kinds of data that we collect once our systems are up in place, and it's really nice to see, even across portfolios, where is the most frequent loss occurring. And to date, what we're seeing is, one of the major, locations of loss is on the heating and cooling systems, particularly in residential high rise buildings. But those fan coils, the heat pumps, radiators, the boilers, tend to be the at least from a data perspective that we've collected, the highest, risk point in any building followed closely by, kitchens and washing machines.

So you have to understand there are two types of triggers that create alerts, and this will be important when you're thinking about a deployment in a construction environment. you may have parts of the system where installing a meter makes a lot more sense and the environment's fairly predictable.

But you have other areas that you may want a water sensor placed down because it's not really related to a water supply leak, for example, like, an elevator pit. there's no water there, but if you had a drain backup or a storm surcharge, that water sensor could pick it up versus a temporary water line for construction that could be monitored by the meter. And so I'll just explain and visually try and, show you guys how the two differ, to achieve different things. So if if we're trying to, obtain an alert or understand an issue in the building based on flow, we're using a water meter as this example here. And so, okay, you have water coming in off the street.

Maybe you pulled one line for temporary water up the stairwell, another water line to temporary bathrooms.

There could be a few different systems that that are there temporarily for drywall guys and the office staff, etcetera.

And so that meter is tracking water usage at all times and trying to understand, regular versus irregular. And so in an example here, one of the things that the meter is looking for is what's called continuous flow.

So, for example, you've set up a temporary bathroom on the ground floor. maybe there's ten toilets, and they're often pretty, abused in a construction environment.

So one of the things that that we've caught and we'll we'll get into it on a on a case study, but, say you have a continuous flow event, which is perhaps, half a liter, or a gallon of water running continuously for an hour. And so the meter is seeing a very slow, consistent, usage, which is not normal based on the last month of readings that we've collected through the meter. So it's constantly learning, looking back the last twenty eight days and reprogramming itself with the onboard logic, to, again, understand what is normal versus abnormal. So continuous flow is one type of event.

Extreme flow could be another type of event. Imagine one of these lines all of a sudden burst at three in the morning.

That's also unusual for this meter based on the normal usage that it's seen. And so, again, it would send out an alert. And so looking at this on a graph to give more of a sense of how this is actually working is it's constantly tracking minute by minute, liter by liter, the leaders on the left over time. And so what the meter starts to do is kinda heat map what is normal, what is not normal.

In this case here, we had an extreme water usage scenario, end of day or outside of construction hours, or you may have a continuous flow situation. It's never getting to zero. Something's clearly wrong there as well, so just to give a sense. The other type of alert, so not flow based when we have a meter on a line, is a water sensor alert. So Eddy's got, Eddy H2O's. They're wireless water sensors, five to seven year battery life. You could place these down in different parts of the building, either in a little holster or just by itself, inside of a wall, chase, whatever.

We also have probe sensors and rope sensors. So there's there's other sensors for different use cases that you'll see, but they all work around the same principle as far as an alert.

On the backside of the sensor, there are two metallic strips that are embedded into the plastic to reduce false positives.

And so, traditionally, we're gonna see those placed around high risk appliances or areas that are of concern. Maybe there's a hydro room or, like I said, an elevator pit, somewhere where you need the insight, should there be a water leak. And so, of course, if you have a water leak, it strikes the sensor, gets its alert going, and then triggers all of that, notifications as far as text, email, and the call center. And so just getting into the products now, What is available to you as a builder, would be our Eddy H2O. So it's a three in one water sensor also tracking humidity and temperature, which is able to be used in really interesting use cases, which we'll get into shortly, But understanding the internal conditions of the space aside from the physical presence of water, if you have a temperature drop in a unit or in a mechanical penthouse on the roof because someone left the door open, this would also be able to provide that alert before anything freezes.

Different use cases, would, cause us to require the leak rope in certain circumstances or a probe sensor where perhaps you need to have the probe inside of a wall that will not be accessible in the future, and the actual device, the electronics could be kept outside of the wall. So it just gives you a bit of a lead between the actual sensor and the operating device. And then, of course, temperature and pressure sensors, which have other use cases.

Again, the temperature could be used for fire stand pipes or any area that's susceptible to cold weather.

When it comes to meters, there are, different sizes of piping similar to the valves. And so the Eddy IQ, which is the technology, the valve, and the meter all in one, works great for pipe sizes three quarter to inch and a quarter, But anything greater than, inch and a half and greater, we'll say, would require different types of meter. The one shown here, would it be a two and a half inch and larger flanged type meter, and those would be connected to a link. So it's like you're kinda separating the Eddy IQ here into different bits and pieces.

And so if we're looking at it this way, what you have available, in your toolbox would be the Eddy IQ, three quarter and one inch. So, again, valve technology and meter all in one, Used often for temporary water lines, for, fountains, irrigation, closed loop system make up water. So there's a variety of use cases for that device. But if we need to be measuring a two inch line because you have a much larger temporary water plan, then we would take the Eddy Link and connect it to standard third party water meters from companies such as Badger, Census, Neptune, Kempstroke, etcetera.

I'd say ninety nine percent of the meters out there are speaking on a similar protocol, and so the Eddy Link is capable of reading, both the flow and consumption from those devices. Now you're always gonna get a more granular and precise measurement of instantaneous flow from the Eddy IQ, whereas the larger meters, are generally limited to how, small of the amount of volume that they can read.

In certain circumstances, we may even consider clamp on meters.

I'll admit not the most popular. People are often looking for that in line shutoff solution, on construction sites, and so this hasn't played too popular, but it's certainly available.

When it comes to the valves, so, again, we're gonna use the link tied to a variety of different control valves.

Bellimo is a very well known brand.

PROMATION has often been our preference, or the eddy actuated valves for lower voltage, smaller pipe sizes. All of them are available. And the link can actually tie to a valve and a meter at the same time.

So it really gives you the functionality of the Eddy IQ, which, again, was that all in one, but on larger pipe sizes, really no limitation, to what kind of pipe we can monitor.

The actual plumbing and electrical requirements, just to be able to point that out here.

So a lot of times when doing our designs, we are not recommending a change to the standard engineering design. What we are saying is take out your, quote, unquote, dumb manual valve and put in an electric actuated valve that you can then control.

So anywhere you have, a main shutoff for the building, zone shutoffs, riser shutoffs, unit level shutoffs. However far you wanna take this, just swap out the manual valve for an actuated valve, which are often, an Apollo valve body or a proration actuator, or Bellimo, or whatever the brand is. And we're just adding that connectivity element through the link, which then gets plugged into a receptacle.

Larger actuators that are one ten volts, so usually much larger pipe sizes, are tied directly into a switched receptacle, to energize the actuator, whereas the smaller pipe sizing and smaller actuators will get their driving power directly from the link, meaning you only require a receptacle.

So just to point out some of the plumbing electrical requirements, Ned. Lastly, as mentioned, you can use one link to tie into a valve and a meter, which will require power for the link. And this assembly here is the most common on temporary water lines during construction.

All of these will communicate wirelessly using LoRaWAN radio frequency, which does exceptionally well in the built environment, particularly concrete buildings full of rebar and very tall or very wide.

LoRaWAN has, really set itself out there. It's it's a universal protocol, open source, and has become, extremely popular over the past decade for, IoT, Internet of things and connectivity in commercial buildings.

And so that is a platform we've leveraged, since day one and does exceptionally well in buildings. There's also two different versions. So in a construction site, you probably don't have Internet everywhere you need it.

And so these gateways can come supplied with a SIM card. You would place them wherever in the building that you need to connect to the devices depending how many devices you had out there, but not reliant on, building Internet, which typically comes pretty late into a project.

Alternatively, if we're if we're building a large system, for in this example here, some thirty, forty story building, we can tie all of these gateways together, leveraging the fact that the devices are what's called PoE, so power over Ethernet.

Meaning, I don't need a plug at every location, which could be very challenging in a construction site when you're dealing with temp power. And so all we really need is one dedicated plug, from the temp power source, which will power a network switch, a power over Ethernet network switch, and then provide power and communication to all of our gateways. Again, in construction, you probably don't have Internet, and so we're gonna use a small SIM enabled modem to provide Internet to the whole infrastructure. So it's very common for us to require connectivity, backup, and overhauls, in the construction environment when, power's an issue and Internet's an issue, but that has been solved.

And so just kind of a recap, you have different kinds of sensors, different kinds of valves and meters. All of them will provide some sort of alert based on their status or a condition. water has leaked, irregular flow, extreme flow. Those generate alerts into apps for, email, and, text. And then that can create an action, an automation, both for our call center, but also to automatically close any of the valves if that's something that we've defined as a group, that you want the main water to shut off if something is triggered.

So all of our systems, as you've seen a couple times now, are supported by the call center twenty four seven. And, of course, they they do come with a cloud based dashboard, and they can be controlled remotely. But I do find that our call center is often everyone's go to, especially in a construction site. You're moving around. You may not have time to log in to another dashboard. Nobody cares for more dashboards.

That's where the call center really plays in. So you could call and say, hey. Listen. at at at three o'clock or Sunday at nine, we're working and we're gonna be running water.

This is unusual. Put the system on test. very similar to a fire system, where you're gonna be doing work at times you've normally not done work. You could always snooze our system.

I've seen people utilize the dashboard to turn off water at the end of the day, turn it on back in the morning.

So there's there's a lot of different ways to leverage the call center and the dashboard. As far as data that we're collecting, so any meters installed are collecting, liters per minute, so instantaneous flow as well as consumption overall.

At a later point, if if it's a permanent meter installation, that could be used for utility partners and submetering.

We're actually gonna do another, webinar specific to submetering, so make sure you join that. It'll be about, a month away.

So I won't get too much into it now, but the meters are collecting, again, instantaneous flow and consumption. Sensors are collecting, presence of water, humidity, and temperature.

And, another interesting thing I've seen on a built in, a site under construction, They were using the water usage, as a total to understand their performance, while they were pouring concrete and while they were doing the drywall stages and just to get a better understanding of the environmental impact of their bill. So that was a more advanced builder, but there could be, certainly data that's, relevant from the ESG perspective.

So some real life use cases. I've talked a lot about products and stuff and what it does, and that's great, but how does it actually help me? So, let me jump. This is more of a completed installation, but this was a really great use case. So there was a builder building this office building for SickKids, downtown Toronto.

And, it's it's, it's not a hospital, but it's a very high end environment.

Has to be clean and, they have certain expectations. And so our system was deployed by the builder through the core of the building where all the, primary bathrooms, men's, women's, universal, etcetera. And they had placed our sensors within the wall chases to understand any issues with storm drains, sanitary drains, or generally the water lines. And one of the major things that we found here was the concealed flush valves where ninety percent of the guts are buried in the wall.

Several of them had very, very small leaks at the washers or the elbow. some of it was product related. Some of it was workmanship related.

And so the most exciting thing for the PM on this job, that that was really nice for me to hear at the end of the project was, we deploy these systems, and everyone expects a huge flood to be detected and stopped, and it's a big win. But what he really appreciated was these tiny leaks that he would have never seen, and at at least not seen for weeks were detected immediately. And so you could imagine, two, three, four, five weeks of a small drip would begin to create mold and just a lot more damage quietly as opposed to a sudden burst, sudden resolution, and you're going there. So that was interesting, something I didn't really expect or really put a lot of thought into that that these small leaks would be so meaningful.

Another scenario is a temporary water arrangement.

This is just a generic photo here, but this building had a very large temporary water plan and deployment, many bathrooms, many, office stations, trailers, etcetera. And so, what we found here on a couple occasions were flappers leaking, hose bibs left on, things that happen in a very rustle and bustle construction environment.

And so, again, it was nice to see these issues are proactively resolved, before they turned into a big issue.

Lastly, I sort of spoke to this before. So we had a deployment, a residential complex of four structures, and part of the solution was deploying the Eddy H2O in every single fan coil, in every single residential unit. And what happened here was, the sliding door had been left open by a trade. Temperatures in the suite had plummeted and put at risk the, coil from freezing.

And so this was detected, picked up, and advised to the client before it happened. And so there there are scenarios where, the building is not enclosed and you can't have, the temperature sensor functioning, let's say, because everything's freezing. But as soon as you get the building heated and enveloped, we can bring up overall across the entire project, the minimum threshold on a sensor so that you can start to understand, while the building's still unoccupied and heavily under construction, are all the units warm and that there's no risk.

So that being said, how would you get started? at the end of the day, these are still designed and arranged systems. But when it comes to the construction world, it's very often that we're almost putting together kits. if the building's ten stories or fifty stories, you probably want a few of the basic, features, which I'll get into on the next slide. But the general, I'll say, customer journey start to finish, anytime we have an opportunity, is initially discovery. It's typically fairly quick, but we need our clients and end users to really understand everything I'm getting into now. what tools do you have at your disposal?

What are your goals? What are your budgets? What are you looking to do? And our experts will very quickly put together a design for you. So that brings us into the next stage. We'll take your, mechanical drawings, electrical drawings, architectural drawings, mark them up, create scopes of work, details, everything that your trades will need to easily quote and tender, and your consultants need to embed it into the drawings.

We then really, really take a lot of pride in the coordination and the support that we believe is absolutely required to ensure a successful deployment of a system like this. And so the coordination, project management, IFC drawings, spec sheets, kickoff meetings, all of these bits and pieces that have our team has excelled in, are going to be there, while you're doing the deployment.

As far as installation, that's typically carried out by your existing plumbers and electricians.

Or, sometimes I see even maybe the security vendors or smart building vendors getting involved with the some of the low voltage and EDDI device placement.

But, typically, you're gonna have the trades at site. You already need to do the deployment. And, again, a lot of times for the valves, it's replace one with one. So the plumbing cost impact is essentially zero.

The electrical requirements are very simple. As you saw, most of the stuff is either battery powered or powered over Ethernet.

And so it's really a few plugs that would be required here and there.

And then the last piece is the data points, putting down your sensors, hooking up those automated valves. And the last piece, of course, the monitoring I've spoken, I think, enough about, but the importance of that call center, you'd provide us a predefined list of people to call, either during construction hours or on the weekends if it's different people, or evenings if it's different people.

Now some considerations, and this is specific to people building a building.

If you want to simply derisk your job site and have, what we refer to as job site protection.

The solutions that we would simply recommend would be a main water shutoff.

It's basically a panic button should anything go catastrophically wrong.

Temporary water metering and shutoff. And those two may be the same thing. Right? If you're using your main water line to also feed temporary areas in the building, you could use that together. But if you had your main water coming in, and had control of that and sent temporary water through the building, it's the only reason for the segmentation there. You can see, on the data or at least my description of the data that we've had, many of the leaks are on heating and cooling systems. And so having some sort of metering and shutoff on the water that is supplying those systems would be beneficial.

And then lastly, wireless water sensors. And that ends up being a matter of, risk appetite.

How many sensors do you wanna deploy?

It's very flexible, very easy to add and remove sensors once you have the infrastructure in place. That's if you wanna buy the system, for yourselves to derisk a job site. I think it's, the least somebody can do. But the other consideration to make is if the client has interest in this or there are other stakeholders in this, big development, that have interest in making sure, project deadlines are not delayed.

We're gonna meet the finished line. We're not gonna have damage. We're not gonna have, warranty issues one, two years after the project's delivered.

Then speak to your clients as early as physically possible about considering leak detection because, essentially, our our permanent system, the way that it's implemented, a big chunk of it would be used during the course of construction, and maybe thirty percent of it, would be added at the last stages there for the operating building. So getting your client onboard and interested in a solution like this at the right stage, would ultimately give the builder the benefit, and all the other stakeholders the benefit of the system.

It just makes more sense that way.

So, again, we have a lot of documentation available.

If anyone wants to reach out as far as different asset types, multifamily, office building, retail, etcetera, health care, hotels, our recommendations when it comes to designing, any of our systems.

And so the last thing here, just to kinda give a sense of what you'd be getting, what we'd recommend at the end of the day. So just a simple building here on the right side. You have water coming in off the street, maybe going through a booster pump, going up the building in these larger express lines. Like I said, having that shutoff valve right at the point of entry would allow you to control the main incoming water supply.

And so as a user, you can remotely turn off the water through that dashboard or have it automatically turn on and off based on a trigger.

As we spoke before, a trigger would be metering data or sensor data.

If you wanted to have more, I'll say, specific, control of certain parts of the building, a lot of times, and it's very popular, will go to a zone, or riser level depending on how the existing plumbing is laid out and where we could see key valves that could be replaced from manual to, actuated.

And so if you had additional valves, again, on the zone or on a vertical riser running through multiple units or suites, you'd very similar to the main, have the ability to remotely turn off or automatically based on sensors. Typically, the bigger the building, the more valves you'd want. You'd want less disruption.

And, a lot of people implement this not only for that immediate construction period in those last six months, but also a couple years after. you're still tied to warranty, any issues that come up. So having that that security there is ideal. Another, thing I mentioned, so the wireless sensors, putting them into common areas. Maybe you have amenity spaces, mechanical rooms on the roof, elevator pits, offices, hydro rooms.

We've done, leak ropes in drip pans at the ceilings of hydro rooms because there were some storm drains running through. I'm sure, anybody that's that's involved in the industry as far as building has all kinds of, use cases and scenarios that they've seen where having that edge, having that early insight, would be extremely useful. And so that's, when we're trying to think of common area sensor deployment, that's the kinda stuff that we're we're thinking about. And so a sensor in common areas would allow you to receive, notifications through email, SMS, or the call center, and then use those to automatically close a single valve or a group of valves.

A lot of times you need to close a group of valves, to effectively isolate a section of the building. Now another, system that I've mentioned was the, heating and cooling. And so this is a closed loop of water. The same water cycling from the heating boilers or chillers, cycling through all of the suites and fan coils and heat pumps and whatever the case.

And so there will be a point in the system where fresh water is being introduced to the closed loop on a case on a need by need basis, let's say. So in a in a normally functioning system, there would be no water loss or extremely minimal water loss. But if you started to have water loss, somewhere in this closed loop, then water would start flowing through the meter. And what you saw earlier with the meters, it would know that that's unusual.

That's not regular. We're We're gonna send an alert. We're gonna shut down. Whatever the business rules are, we can stop fresh water from entering a closed loop.

Now I, in this exact example, would highly recommend that each riser be fitted with actuated valves because, for example, if the lowest unit here exploded and we closed just the new water that was entering the system, great, but you still have the entire system that would need to escape from that rupture. And so it's very common for us to have a actuated valve at the top of the line, at the bottom of the line, sometimes times two if it's a four pipe heating cooling.

If it's just a heat pump system, you'd only have a supply and return.

But being able to isolate that and even if it's the bottom unit, not all of this water is gonna drain right out when we close the top and bottom because it's gonna airlock.

But it's also not that much water. I mean, we're trying to solve catastrophic thirty, fifty unit catastrophes and reduce it down to a mop and towel cleanup.

That's not gonna to push back major schedules or cause major headaches. So we're often, recommending a little more valve control on the heating cooling side to give you that protection you need.

The other thing to consider, and I sort of alluded to the submetering aspect, but if you're involved in a development, in at least a residential development, and they're planning to submeter for water, consider reaching out because you could get the benefit of this entire system, quite seamlessly, working alongside the utility vendor, whom whomever is doing the rebill and collect, to again replace the I don't wanna call them dumb meters, but the regular meters that are just there for water consumption, and implement a smart meter.

So, there's some benefits there, but I think it'd be too long of a story to get into now, which is why we're leaving it for another session, in about a month from now. But I'd like to thank everyone for joining today. As I said, it's education is a huge part of what we need to be doing, to make sure our customers know what to deploy and how to deploy. I think everybody understands the issue that they're trying to solve. We've all seen leaks. We've all seen issues, floods, whatever the case, poor water usage management, etcetera.

But understanding how to actually solve that problem effectively, is obviously where we specialize. And so if anybody wants to reach out, Elliot Samuel, would be your primary point of contact. And, of course, we'll have our our technical team and designers there, to back up any of the designs. So I got a couple questions that have come up.

Let me just read them out here.

Can you explain how Eddy integrates with existing construction workflows and whether it requires any specialized installation or training.

One thing we didn't speak to was integration.

I have seen builders and constructors that have, sophisticated job site systems, that may be pulling, construction cameras, occupancy sensors.

I was speaking to a firm the other day that had, sensors on people's hard hats to understand. this was a hundred story building somewhere not in, in North America, but, so there are platforms out there that constructors are using. We integrate very easily. We have an API. We have the API documentation.

Happy to share, to work through any of that. As far as your usual workflows, at the end of an implementation for us, we spend a lot of energy on the training, onboarding, and then repeating that training as people inevitably change. And so we're doing the majority of the work, I'll say. again, that call center is there for one specific purpose. In the event of a major issue, It's it's sudden.

We the call to action is immediate, and so they play the biggest part in getting somebody to go and resolve the problem or helping resolve the problem as you saw there by by turning off water.

But, no, I wouldn't say any specialized, training or anything is required. We help with a lot of that.

Another question was, as a, it says PM, so I'm gonna assume project manager or property manager. Does this mean I have to go on-site when an issue is detected?

No. Not necessarily. So, I've I've definitely seen scenarios where three in the morning, an alert goes off, and nobody is there. And, most of them have, like, security or someone, but not the most knowledgeable or technical people.

And so they'll just decide, okay. You know what? Just close the building, close the main water, and I'll check it out tomorrow. And that and that's very common.

So, no, you wouldn't have to immediately go there. the sensor at the end of the day for us and for any vendor, it doesn't know how much water spilled on it. It just knows that water spilled on it. But that could be where the meter comes into play.

One of the popular construction solutions that we provide is a metering based, leak detection system.

There are also gonna be sensors involved, but, I'd say more optionally. So, a meter based construction solution, and so that's installed on the main waterline.

And it's quite a predictable environment where we could say, during work hours, don't be sensitive meter. that that's the program that we begin with. And outside of construction hours, which could be predefined by the team, is it seven to three, seven to five, whatever it is, be more sensitive.

And that could be changed, Monday to Friday schedule. Saturday, usually, people are working, say, eight to five or eight to three or whatever it is, and Sunday, no work. And then as the meter begins, that would be the initial push schedule. As the meter continues to absorb more and more data, essentially, the longer it's installed, the better it gets at understanding what is normal versus abnormal.

So that that becomes a very popular scenario. And so you could say again, back to your question, do I need to go there? If the meter is saying five hundred liters a minute, has just gone through and it's three in the morning, maybe you wanna check that out. But if it's a few liters, and it's auto shut off, you could check it out the next day.

I guess that was probably the only other question.

There there's also budgeting tools that we offer, our builder clients.

A lot of times you're trying to incorporate this in the very early onset of a of a project and project planning.

If anybody's looking for high level but quite accurate, budgets, we can very easily provide that. We don't really need much information.

We've created portals for some of our regulars to just hop into, give us some basic project details, floors, asset type, is this retrofit new construction, whatever the case. It'll precreate a kit that you can take away as far as the pricing and, some of the basics.

And so that is certainly available. Again, feel free to reach out, if if anyone's interested in that portal.

So I think that about covers everything. Again, really appreciate everybody's time. If there are any additional questions, you could always reach out to me, or Elliot. And, looking forward to the next one.