Ravi Kurani - My Sutro-Affordable, Sustainable, Cloud-Based Water Monitoring System
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Second, to the air conditioner, swimming pool pumps are the second largest consumer of electricity in the home and are overused when issues with water chemistry require pools to be emptied and refilled. In addition, dirtier water requires more energy, so money can actually be saved by keeping pool water clean and chemically balanced, to begin with. A pool owner must consistently and carefully measure five water parameters: nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, pH, and alkalinity. However, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor and correct issues once they arise, leading to a lot of chemicals, water, and energy waste.
Now there's an easier and more sustainable option offered by My Sutro: a small, floatable sensor that's connected to the cloud on a 24/7 basis in order to monitor all five parameters, identify imbalances and send alerts when there's something off with the water. If there's a deficiency in one or more chemicals, My Sutro will deliver them to your doorstep. Ravi Kurani is the CEO of My Sutro and explains a variety of potential use cases for this product, including those that deal with drinking water, groundwater, and agriculture.
My Sutro has a handful of devices currently deployed across the U.S. for testing, and are planning a big launch just in time for the 2019 swimming season. Stay up to date on the latest and purchase your own sensor by visiting mysutro.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. My guest is Robbie Kurani. |
| 0:32.0 | He's the CEO of a company called Mycen. My |
| 0:34.1 | so T-R-O-O-P-O-O-D-O-D-O-com and we're gonna be talking about their smart monitoring |
| 0:41.5 | water monitoring system. |
| 0:42.7 | Robbie how you doing today? |
| 0:43.8 | I'm doing good doing good how are you? |
| 0:45.8 | Doing fine. Yeah so tell me about your smart water monitoring app |
| 0:50.0 | what's the what was the idea behind it and what does it do? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, so at a high level basically what we're building is a proprietary sensor technology that you throw into a body of water, it connects to the cloud, tells the user exactly what to do with their water and when to do it, and then basically builds that feedback loop. |
| 1:12.0 | And I say that that high picture, because if... and then basically build that feedback loop. |
| 1:13.0 | And I say that that high picture because if you go to mySutor.com, |
| 1:16.6 | you'll see that we're deploying in swimming pools right now. |
| 1:20.1 | And it's kind of a perfect example for us to launch into and also for me to kind of explain the way the system works because many people probably have dealt with the swimming pool before. |
| 1:29.7 | So the way it tangibly works in your backyard is you drop this device into your swimming pool. |
| 1:34.9 | It connects via our hub to the Wi-Fi and our cloud analytics system basically tells you on the |
| 1:41.2 | Central application how much and of what chemical to put in, right? |
| 1:45.5 | Put in two pounds of chlorine, put in three pounds of acid, and the goal is that if you don't have |
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