SteamIQ trap monitoring

Sailah

Hopefully you'll allow me to show off what I've been working diligently on for about 2 years now. I've mentioned this previously maybe a year ago but we weren't ready for prime time.

Intensive testing over the last 2 heating seasons and we have made some gigantic progress. Not sure benefits are there for smaller installations, our target audience is utilizing steam for heat or process and/or would have lots of larger traps where the failure is either costly in terms of lost product or dollars.

What we developed is a pretty unique (patents pending) methodology by which we can sense steam leaks ultrasonically and then send this via ultra long range, battery powered transmitters to gateways and then 3G to our network server in the cloud. The data is then churned through Microsoft Azure machine learning analytics and it learns the patterns in the data. It's able to resolve down to even minute leaks and tunable by the user to weight certain parameters. If a user is running a critical process where a trap failure could result in a lost batch, knowing if a trap has failed immediately would be pretty important. Whereas a University might want to fix failed traps every month to make sure they aren't failed and blowing steam all year until they are surveyed.

We certainly didn't invent steam trap monitoring but we managed to create an entirely different detection mechanism, process it onboard the monitor, send it via a new long range wireless protocol (LoRaWAN), and then apply the power of the cloud and machine learning to determine if a trap has failed, is failing or is about to fail. All with a 7 year battery life, IP68 housing and a fraction of the cost of competing systems with a lot more functionality.

Our big debut is at the National Grid Energy Efficiency conference at Gillette Stadium in a couple weeks. I'll be leaving my post at Barnes and Jones and running this as a standalone business. I'm still on great terms with B&J of course and will be assisting with things like the Big Mouth vents that were essentially my own project there. I want to make sure that people know that they can still get them and support from B&J.

Here's our website with more info: www.steamiq.com

Welcome any comments or questions.

Snapshot of our dashboard showing a trap that has some issues but resolved itself. These are located at a large research university in Boston.



And one that has not and is blowing steam

BobC

That sounds like a great idea and I hope it takes off like a rocket for you.

Bob

Steamhead

Curious as to why B&J doesn't want to hang onto this. Seems to me it would complement the trap business.

Sailah

> @BobC said:
> That sounds like a great idea and I hope it takes off like a rocket for you.
>
> Bob

Thanks Bob!

> @Steamhead said:
> Curious as to why B&J doesn't want to hang onto this. Seems to me it would complement the trap business.

Simple answer is that it made more business sense to do it this way. It will still benefit them.