Company Research Report: Detection Services

Company Overview

• Name: Detection Services

• Mission: To deliver intelligent, sustainable pipeline management solutions essential to the water and wastewater industries.

• Founded: 1991

• Founder: Stephen Simmons

• Headquarters: 15/276-278 New Line Rd, Dural, NSW 2158, Australia

• Key People:

• Stephen Simmons (Director)

• Chris Evans (Chief Operating Officer)

• Terry Baker (General Manager Service Delivery — Australia)

• Vaughn Healey (General Manager Service Delivery — New Zealand)

• Dr. Young-il Kim (Pipe Condition Assessment Manager)

• Number of Employees: No information available

• Revenue: No information available

• Known For: Detection Services is known as the largest specialised water management business in Australasia, providing innovative solutions for pipeline inspection, assessment, monitoring, maintenance, data collection, and analysis for the water and wastewater industries.

Products

Water Loss Management

• High Level Description: Strategies, technologies, and solutions to reduce non-revenue water loss.

• Key Features:

• Leak Detection and NRW

• Minimum Night Flow Monitoring

• Permanent Leak Monitoring

• Acoustic leak detection

• Correlation and analysis

• Ground survey techniques

Asset Monitoring

• High Level Description: Advanced early warning system to evaluate pipeline network operating conditions.

• Key Features:

• PMA/DMA validation

• Energy efficiency monitoring

• Transient pressure management

• Acoustic, pressure, and flow data analysis

Pipeline Condition Assessment

• High Level Description: Non-invasive, non-destructive assessment of pipeline conditions.

• Key Features:

• p-CAT™ & p-CAT™ infinity

• smart-CAT™

• SCT

• a-CAT™

• inSCAN®

• Pipe Inspector®

• inflowmatix

• Rezatec

• SmartValve™

• Various inspection technologies for internal and external assessment

Pressure Management

• High Level Description: Increase water distribution efficiency by improving network performance.

• Key Features:

• Extend lifecycle of water supply pipelines

• Decrease non-revenue water loss (NRW)

• Pressure reducing valves (PRVs)

• Smart automated pressure controllers

Monitoring Technologies

• Examples:

• p-CAT™ (Pipeline Condition Assessment)

• smart-CAT™

• SCT (Stress Concentration Tomography)

• a-CAT™ (Acoustic Leakage Condition Assessment)

• inSCAN®

• Pipe Inspector®

• inflowmatix

• Rezatec’s Geospatial AI

• SmartValve™

Recent Developments

• New Contracts:

• Detection Services has secured a long-term contract with Seqwater for a reservoir sediment cleaning program.

• Technological Advancements:

• p-CAT™ Wins Awards: p-CAT™ won the 'Large Diameter Pipeline Technology Award' at The Pipe Industries Guild 2024 Technical Awards.

• NO-DES Return: The return of NO-DES services to New Zealand, a technology known for innovative water pipeline cleaning.

• New Innovations:

• Rezatec Technology: Using geospatial artificial intelligence to improve the management of water networks by assessing risk and identifying potential pipeline failures.

• AQSense-Edge: Advanced leak detection utilising acoustic correlating sensors.

• iTracker: An inflow and infiltration detection technology that combines sensor data with advanced algorithms to identify and address I&I in wastewater systems.

• Innovative Projects:

• Case Study: A progressive utility in Australia facing challenges related to Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) in its wastewater network integrated cutting-edge technologies for monitoring and addressing I&I hotspots.

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Note: For unrevealed fields, such as the exact number of employees and revenue specifics, "No information available" was indicated.