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United Utilities crowns six winners of its Innovation Lab competition

by Trevor Loveday

United Utilities has announced the six winners of its Innovation Lab competition that seeks to develop new ideas in technology and practices for the water industry.


The winning companies will develop their technologies during the next three months in partnership with United Utilities before presenting their final products in July. “After that, they will agree the best relationship for the long term,” said Unitied Utilities.


The winners

Smartvalve from Lincoln has developed an app to manage and monitor manual valve operations. By ensuring all valve operations are carried out efficiently it reduces the creation of transient pressure which means fewer bursts, leaks and water discolouration events.


Previsico, from Loughborough has developed a warning system for surface water and ordinary water course floods using live hydrodynamic modelling software to generate flood forecasts using cutting edge forecasting technology.

ClearWater Sensors from Southampton for their portable battery-powered submersible chemical sensors which can be used for long-term and real-time water chemistry monitoring.


VBact from Israel has developed a bacterial water scanner which provides real-time continuous automated bio monitoring for water quality and safety applications.


Altitude Thinking from Grangemouth has developed a series of autonomous, remotely operated vehicles to collect water quality samples and data.

Automutatio from Hailshaw has developed data management tools to drive improvements in safety performance.


United Utilities’ idea development programme began in 2017 and is run in conjunction with L Marks. United Utilities said it has awarded long-term contracts with eight suppliers and created forty-five new jobs, many of them in the North West.


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