Ensure Compliance & Protect Assets with Water Quality Monitoring
Automate your water quality compliance in South Africa. The Augos platform uses specialized sensors to continuously monitor critical parameters like pH, TDS, temperature, and salinity against your exact operational or regulatory limits. Avoid fines, protect assets, and ensure process safety with real-time data and instant alerts.
What is Water Quality Monitoring and Why is it Critical?
Water Quality & Compliance Monitoring is a complete solution that uses specialized online sensors connected to the Augos Intelligence Platform to continuously track key water parameters. It is crucial for any business in South Africa needing to adhere to strict environmental discharge permits, protect high-value assets from damage, ensure water is safe for specific processes, and maintain auditable records for reporting.
Avoid Costly Fines & Shutdowns
Continuously monitor your discharge water to ensure it meets all local environmental regulations. Our platform provides the auditable, real-time data trail to prove compliance and helps you avoid significant fines or mandated operational shutdowns from regulators.
Protect High-Value Assets from Damage
Incorrect water chemistry is a silent killer of expensive equipment. By actively monitoring key parameters, you can prevent corrosion, scaling, and fouling in critical assets like boilers, cooling towers, and heat exchangers, extending their lifespan and reducing maintenance costs.
Localized E-E-A-T Fact: The South African National Water Act specifies that non-compliant water discharge can result in fines up to R1 million per incident. Real-time monitoring is the most effective way to mitigate this significant financial risk.
Key Water Quality Parameters We Monitor
Our system provides real-time visibility into the specific parameters that matter most to your operations and compliance obligations.
Water pH Monitoring
What it is: A continuous measurement of how acidic or basic your water is (on the 0-14 scale).
Why it's critical: Essential for meeting regulatory compliance for wastewater discharge and preventing significant corrosion or scaling in pipes, boilers, and cooling systems.
Water TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) Monitoring
What it is: A measurement of the total concentration of dissolved substances in the water, reported in parts per million (ppm).
Why it's critical: Serves as a key indicator of overall water quality and risk. High TDS can lead to fouling, scaling, and reduced efficiency in industrial equipment like boilers and reverse osmosis systems.
Water Temperature Monitoring
What it is: A precise measurement of the water's heat at specific points in a system.
Why it's critical: Vital for ensuring process stability in industrial applications, complying with health regulations (especially for Legionella control), and verifying sanitation temperatures in food production.
Water Salinity (EC) Monitoring
What it is: A real-time measurement of the salt content, typically reported as Electrical Conductivity (EC).
Why it's critical: Crucial in agriculture to protect crops from high-salt irrigation water, in aquaculture to ensure fish health, and in industrial settings to monitor process water quality.
How Our Water Quality Monitoring System Works
Our solution provides a complete, end-to-end system for automated compliance and process control.
Install Specialized Sensors
We install robust, industrial-grade Augos sensors (e.g., pH, TDS, Temperature probes) at your critical monitoring points—directly in pipes, tanks, or discharge channels.
Transmit Real-Time Data
The sensors transmit live data continuously to the Augos Intelligence Platform via reliable connectivity options, including LoRa and cellular modems like our RS-485 Smart Modem.
Visualize and Log Data
The platform displays the data on intuitive dashboards and logs it historically, creating a permanent, auditable record for compliance reporting and trend analysis.
Receive Instant Alerts
Our Triggers & Alerts system will instantly notify relevant personnel via SMS, email, or WhatsApp the moment any parameter goes outside your predefined acceptable range, enabling immediate corrective action.
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