PUB and Optiqua ink deal for affordable sensor development

The two will team up for a 15-month pilot project aimed at improving water technology.

Singapore’s national water agency, Public Utilities Board (PUB), and Optiqua Technologies Pte Ltd, the Singapore-based provider of real time monitoring solutions for the international water industry, announced Thursday the signing of a collaborative agreement for the development of Optiqua’s real time sensor technology.

Under the agreement, PUB and Optiqua will embark on a project to accelerate the development and launch of Optiqua’s award-winning monitoring technology into an affordable sensor that can be implemented in Singapore’s water distribution grid for real-time water quality monitoring. This 15-month pilot project is being pilot-tested at PUB’s facilities.

Optiqua’s sensor technology is based on its patented Lab-on-Chip platform that can continuously monitor a full spectrum of potential contaminations in drinking water. As a low-cost, online solution, it allows for an economically viable network to be implemented throughout a water distribution grid. Such a high density network of sensors provides an effective early warning system that can dramatically reduce incident response times and recovery costs.

Harry Seah, Director, Technology & Water Quality from PUB said, “PUB is always on the look-out for new reliable and faster methods for water quality monitoring. This pilot project with Optiqua is expected to complement PUB’s ongoing efforts in real-time water quality monitoring. Such a system will further enhance safety for all our water consumers.”

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