The Droople team has developed a system that can help reduce a building’s water consumption.
EPFL-based startup Droople has developed a smart flow meter that can measure buildings' water consumption and identify potential savings in energy. The Montreux Jazz Café at EPFL has already tested the device and found a way to cut its energy bill. Droople's smart meters record not just water flow rates and temperatures, but also peak usage times and total consumption - valuable data for facilities managers seeking to cut costs. The system consists of a series of smart flow meters installed at the point of use that collect data and send them through a low-power wide-area network (LoRaWAN) to a cloud-based software program. "Our program runs the data through a series of algorithms to extract the useful information," says Ramzi Bouzerda, Droople's founder and CEO. He set up the company in April 2018 at EPFL's Innovation Park. Recovering energy from hot water The Montreux Jazz Café on the EPFL campus recently tried out the device.
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