Leaders in Remote Monitoring
‘us’ - Utility Services, has drawn on its wealth of industry innovations and expertise and combined several technologies and applications to create powerful, online remote monitoring and management tools. Our systems are innovative, powerful and easy to use, interactive, web based monitoring systems designed for industrial, institutional and commercial users.

Bringing together a combination of modern technologies to suit individual needs, ‘us’ - Utility Services clients can now access Water Industry management data online and 24 hours a day. Reports can be accessed and generated from any location via a secure Internet connection, drawing on water consumption, water quality, gas, electricity, trade waste and spill prevention information.

‘us’ - Utility Services’ systems are being used by water utilities, councils, businesses, hospitals, schools, shopping centres, parks and gardens, golf courses, and industrial organisations that are keen to better understand - and better control – their water quality, consumption, potential for spills and wastage. Our systems are unique, powerful and inexpensive, putting data online and at your finger tips - providing powerful management reporting for your organisation.

‘HydroTrak’
Online Hydrant Monitoring System
HydroTrak is a push-button logging system for hydrant permit vehicles, enabling online recording and reporting of water withdrawn from a network.

Online Hydrant Monitoring System
HydroTrak is a remote, online logging system, developed by ‘us’ – Utility Services for hydrant permit vehicles. The system enables real-time web-based recording and reporting of water withdrawn from a network.

Prior to withdrawing water from a Hydrant, the driver of a Hydrant Permit Holder vehicle ‘presses the button’ on the HydroTrak unit. That’s it! Hydrant fill information is immediately available online, with no paperwork to complete and reduced administration for water authorities and hydrant permit holders.

How Does HydroTrak Work?
HydroTrak is an unobtrusive device that is fitted to registered Hydrant Permit Holder vehicles - a simple, easy to use device that requires the driver to simply ‘press a button’ before withdrawing water from a hydrant.

This innovative device removes the need for permit vehicle drivers to complete and return cumbersome paperwork at each fill. When the HydroTrak button is pressed, the device automatically sends a coded message to the HydroTrak web-based reporting platform, including the vehicle identity, tank size and hydrant location information.

This information is then displayed using an online mapping interface, enabling efficient response times for water quality complaints and online access to hydrant permit vehicle data.

• HydroTrak includes a small, unobtrusive device attached to each hydrant permit vehicle
  
  
• Vehicle drivers press the HydroTrak button at each fill
  
  
• Fill locations are displayed visually using an online map interface
  
  
• HydroTrak includes an online application and renewal process for permit holders
  
  
• Our system reduces administration for water authorities and hydrant permit holders

‘BlokAid’
Spill Prevention
BlokAid is a cost effective, easy to install and fully self-contained overflow monitoring device for sewer and storm-water networks.

Sewer / Stormwater Overflow Monitoring and Alarm System
Every water authority has experienced the issue of a sewer overflow at some stage. Spills can now be prevented and blockages detected early with a sewer overflow monitoring and alarm device called BlokAid. BlokAid alerts your maintenance team about higher than normal flows in sewer and storm-water environments.

How Does BlokAid Work?
By installing BlokAid in sewer or storm-water manholes, high sewer and storm-water levels can be detected as the level rises. An alarm is then automatically activated which identifies the manhole either through the Supervisory Control and Acquisition Data (SCADA) system or direct to a mobile phone or email address. Field maintenance can then be undertaken to rectify the situation.

• Save thousands of dollars in clean up and compensation costs
  
  
• Reduce the risk of household flooding and potential harm to the community
  
  
• Prevent damage to the environment
  
  
• Minimise exposure to fines, insurance premiums and other penalties
  
  
• Enhance your service delivery and reputation throughout the community
  
  
• Identify problem areas to schedule and organise programmed work more efficiently

BlokAid Success Stories
In the South Melbourne Area, there were a high number of sewers which had repeated blockages caused by invasive tree-roots.

‘us’ - Utility Services installed over 100 BlokAid devices throughout this area, and now sewer cleaning is planned according to monitoring results, thus saving time and money as well as providing early detection of all blockages prior to any spills and overflows.

Our first batch of ‘us’ BlokAid units has been delivered to Singapore in 2010. ‘us’ - Utility Services has been successful in winning a significant tender to provide a Sewer Level Overflow Monitoring solution to the Singapore Public Utilities Board (PUB). ‘us’ - Utility Services will supply BlokAid MkIV units to be installed and maintained in PUB’s network for the next 5 years.

‘HydroShare’
Smart Monitoring
HydroShare is an integrated online recording and reporting system for remote monitoring of water, gas, electricity and trade waste.

Our ‘us’ – Utility Services HydroShare system utilises existing mobile communication networks to send data from ‘loggers’ at remote monitoring sites directly to the web. You can securely access your data reports page, which contains raw data, dynamic trends, and customised calculations.

HydroShare backs up all of your data and provides online secure access 24/7.

• Low cost, low-power data recording and reporting system
  
  
• Allows online monitoring and alarming
  
  
• Online data reports, trends and calculations for all monitored sites
  
  
• Sites can be permanent or temporary
  
  
• No need for expensive radio-based telemetry for small sites
  
  
• Powerful statistical analysis and reporting of data via the web

How Does HydroShare Work?
HydroShare works by using remote site data loggers and existing communications infrastructure (GSM, GPRS, CDMA or Satellite), transferring water, gas, electricity and trade waste information to a central data server. For low-powered sites (i.e. using solar panels), data is transferred once a day for viewing via the web. Report information is ‘cumulative’ allowing you to scroll backward on trends information view and compare historical data.

Sites that are monitored, processed and reported manually (i.e. on a monthly basis) can now become ‘live’ on the web so that operational decisions can be made based on current, ‘real-time’ data.

Instead of tying ourselves to third-party equipment suppliers, that have their own unique software and requirements, the ‘us’ - Utility Services, HydroShare system was built as an ‘open protocol’ service. As long as your data logging equipment has the ability to send emails or to transfer files over the Internet, it can be linked into the HydroShare system and a web-page report can be generated. This opens the system up to many different brands of equipment, and allows for its use across many different industries.

More Information and Contact Details
For more information about ‘us’ - Utility Services, its unique suite of flexible products and services visit www.usus.com.au or email info@usus.com.au.