Why Most EHS & ESG Software Can’t Deliver Real AI (and Why Locus Technologies Can)
Learn why true AI requires a unified, multitenant platform—and how Locus EHS & ESG software delivers real automation, reasoning, and compliance intelligence.
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From Billable Hours to AI-Native EHS Compliance and Sustainability Software
EHS compliance and sustainability software are high priorities for companies affected by the reporting requirements.
How Locus AI Improves EHS Compliance, Permitting, and ESG Reporting
How Locus AI Improves EHS Compliance, Permitting, and ESG Reporting and ways Locus AI is being developed and used today.
From Hazardous Data Explosion to AI: Environmental Data Management Predictions and Realities
The vision of an integrated Environmental Data Management System that automated data handling from field to lab to report generation.
Water Quality Management Software: Using AI-ready Tools to Deliver Clean Water, Stay Compliant, and Operate Smarter
Top 5 ways Locus Water Quality Monitoring Software helps utility companies resolve challenges with centralized, reliable, & actionable data.
AI is Nothing Without Validated Data
In a world awash with artificial intelligence hype, one truth stands unshaken: AI is nothing without validated data.
AI and EHS Compliance Software: A New Era of Automation and Efficiency
Find out why AI EHS compliance software only works properly in a technical environment architected for artificial intelligence models.
Leveraging AI to Lead in Rule Compliance: Locus water quality management software uncovers 1 million+ copper and lead results in water systems
Locus water quality management software reveals over 1.1 million data points related to two of the most heavily regulated contaminants.
The Promise and Challenge of an AI Chatbot for Environmental Data Management
Locus Technologies continues to explore new frontiers such as a “natural language” AI chatbot for data stored in Locus software.
Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain Applied to Water & Energy
There are two promising technologies that are about to change how we aggregate and manage EHS+S data: artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. When it comes to technology, history has consistently shown that the cost will always decrease, and its impact will increase over time. We still lack access to enough global information to allow AI to make a significant dent in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by merely providing better tools for emissions management. For example, the vast majority of energy consumption is wasted on water treatment and movement. AI can help optimize both. Along the way, water quality management becomes an add-on app.
AI is a collective term for technologies that can sense their environment, think, learn, and act in response to what they’re detecting and their objectives. Possible applications include (1) Automation of routine tasks like sampling and analyses of water samples, (2) Segregation of waste disposal streams based on the waste containers content, (3) Augmentation of human decision-making, and (4) Automation of water treatment systems. AI systems can greatly aid the process of discovery – processing and analyzing vast amounts of data for the purposes of spotting and acting on patterns, skills that are difficult for humans to match. AI can be harnessed in a wide range of EHS compliance activities and situations to contribute to managing environmental impacts and climate change. Some examples of applications include permit interpretation and response to regulatory agencies, precision sampling, predicting natural attenuation of chemicals in water or air, managing sustainable supply chains, automating environmental monitoring and enforcement, and enhanced sampling and analysis based on real-time weather forecasts. Applying AI in water resource prediction, management, and monitoring can help to ameliorate the global water crisis by reducing or eliminating waste, as well as lowering costs and lessening environmental impacts. A similar analogy holds for air emissions management.
The onset of blockchain technology will have an even bigger impact. It will first liberate data and, second, it will decentralize monitoring while simultaneously centralizing emissions management. It may sound contradictory, but we need to decentralize in order to centralize management and aggregate relevant data across corporations and governmental organizations without jeopardizing anyone’s privacy. That is the power of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology will eliminate the need for costly synchronization among stakeholders: corporations, regulators, consultants, labs, and the public. What we need is secure and easy access to any data with infinite scalability. It is inevitable that blockchain technology will become more accessible with reduced infrastructure over the next few decades. My use of reduced architecture here refers to a replacement of massive centralized databases controlled by one of the big four internet companies using the hub-and-spoke model concept with a device-to-device communication with no intermediaries.
This post was originally published in Environmental Business Journal in June of 2020.
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Locus Unveils OneView™: A Unified Command Center for EHS Compliance and ESG Performance
AI-powered platform delivers enterprise-wide visibility across air, water, soil, energy, and sustainability metrics.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 29, 2025 —Locus Technologies, the pioneer in cloud-based environmental compliance and sustainability software, today announced the release of Locus OneView, a powerful new application that unifies data from smart meters, enterprise systems, and all Locus applications into a single, AI-ready interface. OneView provides organizations with real-time visibility into air emissions, water and energy use, industrial discharges, hazardous waste, chemical inventories, sampling programs, safety incidents, spills, refrigerant phaseouts, and sustainable construction activities.
Built with OpenAI technology and fueled by decades of validated, structured environmental data, Locus OneView breaks new ground in automated compliance, ESG accountability, and risk mitigation. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and multitenant cloud architecture, Locus OneView removes the data silos that traditionally fragment EHS and ESG functions. The result is a single source of truth that empowers executives and operational teams with real-time insights, which inform strategic decisions across all business units and facilities. Sophisticated engineering practices are at the heart of OneView to standardize and interpret diverse data sources, enabling seamless AI integration. This robust data architecture transforms raw environmental and sustainability data into actionable insights for compliance, reporting, and operational optimization.
“Locus OneView eliminates the blind spots and redundant efforts that prevent companies from transforming environmental data into business intelligence,” said Neno Duplan, Founder and CEO of Locus Technologies. “While competitors make vague claims about ‘actionable insights,’ OneView delivers with the architecture, validation, security, and integration necessary to make those insights real.”
Locus OneView automatically links recurring data elements such as locations, assets, technicians, air, water, waste, and chemical compounds on the backend to eliminate redundant data entry and streamline workflows. Fully configurable KPIs provide executives with high-level dashboards and enable users to drill into root causes, supporting documentation, and task-level data.
With OneView, organizations finally gain a single, intelligent view across all their environmental, health, safety, and sustainability initiatives—turning data complexity into competitive clarity.
To learn more about Locus OneView and its AI-driven capabilities, visit www.locustec.com.
About Locus Technologies
Locus Technologies pioneered cloud software for EHS compliance, water management and ESG reporting in 1997 and remains the longest serving pure-play SaaS provider in the sector. Organizations ranging from mid-size enterprises to Fortune 100 corporations rely on Locus to manage more than half a billion environmental records worldwide. Locus software manages air, water, waste, energy, emissions, site, and incident data within a configurable platform for risk mitigation and regulatory reporting. With industry-leading methods for data intake, artificial intelligence, queries, validation, tracking, visualization, and tasking, Locus is uniquely suited for the most complex or consequential operations — where accuracy and credibility cannot be compromised. Locus Technologies is headquartered in Silicon Valley in California. To learn more, visit www.locustec.com.
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Locus Technologies provides cloud-based environmental software and mobile solutions for EHS, sustainability management, GHG reporting, water quality management, risk management, and analytical, geologic, and ecologic environmental data management.