By Viva Sarah Press, Source: NoCamels April 13, 2020
“This article was re-published with permission from NoCamels.com – Israeli Innovation News.
From the toilet paper scare to a decline in environmental enforcement, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on wastewater treatment plants and sewage systems the world over. Wet wipes, newspapers, gloves, paper towels, and other non-flushable things are clogging sewage systems, creating backups, setting off overflowing and polluting our cities, oceans, and foods.
Municipalities in northern Italy, across the US, in Australia and from other parts of Europe are looking to an Israeli smart wastewater management solutions provider for help.
Kando, headquartered in the little-known town of Tzur Igal, 37 kilometers north of Tel Aviv, is using IoT, original algorithms and artificial intelligence technologies to enable wastewater utilities to detect pollution anomalies and blockages in real time in order to keep the world’s sewage systems hygienic and working.
“There are a lot of sewage and wastewater systems that are failing in this crisis,” Ari Goldfarb, CEO of Kando, tells NoCamels. “When there is a failure in the sewage system, bacteria and viruses in the wastewater overflow into our streets, into our cities, into our food, and into our rivers.” Goldfarb says five municipalities in northern Italy have become new clients in the past few weeks. “Our biggest market right now is in northern Italy. Based on their experience, they have told us that they need much more remote support right now for their sewage systems to continue working,” says Goldfarb.
“To innovate the monitoring and control systems to protect the citizens we serve is certainly one of the priorities that we have set ourselves as a company in recent years,” Paolo Saurgnani, director of Acque Bresciane Srl water utility company in Italy, told Palazzolo sull’Oglio journal as to why they turned to Kando for help (Google was used to translate the Italian). “The growing presence of contaminants in urban and non-urban wastewater represents an increasingly evident pollution trend. This is an element of risk for the water system, as a whole, if it is not thought of in terms of resilience, that is, the ability to cope with changes, even unexpected ones, guaranteeing a real and perceived continuity of service.”
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