Metasphere Acquires Meniscus to Broaden Analytics Offering for Wastewater Spill Prevention
April 18, 2023 — Globally, wastewater spills are a significant contributor to the contamination of freshwater and marine ecosystems. In England alone, 86% of rivers and inland waterways are below the expected water quality standards. In part due to spills, polluted waters can pose serious human health risks and threaten damage to critical ecosystems.
At the same time, water utilities are facing pressure to sustainably serve growing populations, meet increasing industrial demand, and build and manage resilient systems. As part of the urgent and critical global response to a changing climate, these utilities are committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
Global wastewater management specialist Metasphere is committed to helping utilities improve their performance and meet these targets.
Many of the world’s leading utilities already use Metasphere’s award-winning ART Sewer technology to gain valuable insights about their wastewater systems. ART Sewer allows utilities to make informed decisions to control and reduce spillages and unplanned escapes, protect water quality and ecosystems, reduce emissions, and increase operational efficiencies.
Today Metasphere is proud to announce the acquisition of Meniscus, a UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) business that delivers real-time data analytics solutions to the wastewater industry.
Meniscus is a key supplier to leading water utilities, including Anglian Water, Northern Ireland Water, Southwest Water, Wessex Water in the UK, and Sydney Water in Australia. The company’s MAP (Meniscus Analytics Platform) helps customers to automatically calculate performance metrics from operational data.
This innovative IoT cloud-based AI and ML platform merges high volume, high velocity, and complex real-time data sets with a wide range of operational data, giving customers the insights they need to proactively manage their networks.
Mike Everest, CEO of Meniscus, said: “We have worked in commercial partnership with Metasphere for several years already, as the MAP platform provides the operational intelligence element to Metasphere’s ART Sewer solution. Formally now joining together strengthens our capability to deliver analytics solutions as a service and meet and exceed our customers’ expectations.’’
Tim O’Brien, CEO of Metasphere, added: “We are delighted to welcome Meniscus to the Metasphere family. MAP is a robust calculation engine that consumes data in fast quantities, and joining forces with Meniscus will allow us to offer our customers a broader suite of innovative and ground-breaking analytics solutions. This acquisition enables Metasphere to build upon our core focus, further strengthen our market position with AI and ML capability and help our major utility customers predict and prevent leaks and spills for a cleaner, greener world.”
Metasphere and Meniscus- Your Wastewater Operational Intelligence partner
For more information contact: +44 (0)1737 846 100 or info@metasphere.co.uk
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About Metasphere
Metasphere helps customers predict and prevent leaks and spills for a cleaner, greener world.
A wastewater management specialist business, Metasphere provides smart network management solutions to the global utility industry, liaising with all sectors of the industry, from major utility companies to environmental and regulatory bodies.
Utilising the latest technology, the company delivers intelligent, innovative all-in-one solutions that provide full network visibility, performance and forecasting that reduce telemetry ownership cost for customers to manage time-critical remote assets and systems.
Metasphere’s solutions are suited for Water, Wastewater, Environmental and Gas applications. Metasphere is a portfolio company of XPV Water Partners.
Visit www.metasphere.co.uk to learn more.
About Meniscus
Meniscus, a real-time data analytics solutions business, has been a key supplier to water companies around the world for more than 25 years.
MAP (Meniscus Analytics Platform), a leading real-time analytics platform helps customers to automatically calculate performance metrics from operational data to deliver full network visibility and forecasting capabilities to customers in the water and energy sectors.
Visit www.meniscus.co.uk to learn more.
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