Water utility companies face growing challenges such as aging infrastructure, the impacts of climate change, regulatory compliance pressure, and increasing demand. This is further complicated by limited budgets, data fragmentation (silos), and contamination risks. To maintain water quality and ensure public health, utilities need to adopt innovative technologies, enhance monitoring, and optimize resource management despite increasingly complex environments. Locus is here to help.
This article outlines the top five ways Locus Water software helps utility companies resolve these challenges through centralized, reliable, and actionable data.
- Locus Water apps support real-time monitoring and alerts. Our software issues immediate alerts to enable rapid responses and resolutions—minimizing service disruptions and regulatory violations. Ultimately, our reliable real-time monitoring and alerts reduce risks to public health and the environment.
- Locus Water apps keep regulatory compliance programs on track. When costs are on the rise, the last thing a company needs is a hefty fine or suspended license because of an avoidable oversight. Locus Water software includes compliance tracking and auditing to ensure all legal and reporting obligations are met on time.
- Locus Water apps are interoperable—removing data silos. Most water companies’ tech stacks are a mix of legacy and modern systems. Some data sits in obsolete databases. Some data is in a spreadsheet on someone’s c: drive. Some may be siloed in a single-tenant cloud. Locus Water software connects to IoT-enabled sensors and SCADA systems, and our apps integrate with third-party LIMS, GIS, or ERP software via API. Locus Water apps support the seamless flow of data across every operational challenge: from backflow prevention to stormwater inspections and service order management, and much more. Plus, with Locus AI innovations, our customers can derive powerful insights, predictive alerts, and workflow efficiencies by tapping into unified data.
- Locus Water apps ingest high quality, validated data. Decisions are only as good as the data behind them. Fortunately, Locus is known for its automated data verification, validation, and long-term success managing the most complex environmental data. Our customers make pivotal decisions with confidence.
- We follow state-of-the-art security and data privacy protocols. Water systems have become high value cyber targets, with at least three attacks making US headlines last year. Locus maintains the highest security credentials of any environmental software provider, and we host on AWS, the world’s most secure cloud. Plus, Locus holds valid SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 verifications of our financials, operations, and security – not just those of our hosting provider. These rigorous audits and third-party attestations are further evidence of our leadership, integrity, and security, and our ability to help water utilities foster trust among their communities.
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Locus is the only self-funded water, air, soil, biological, energy, and waste EHS software company that is still owned and managed by its founder. The brightest minds in environmental science, embodied carbon, CO2 emissions, refrigerants, and PFAS hang their hats at Locus, and they’ve helped us to become a market leader in EHS software. Every client-facing employee at Locus has an advanced degree in science or professional EHS experience, and they incubate new ideas every day – such as how machine learning, AI, blockchain, and the Internet of Things will up the ante for EHS software, ESG, and sustainability.
