Kando is a wastewater intelligence big data solution that uses original algorithms and artificial intelligence to enable utilities and municipalities to protect public health and the environment. The technology allows to gain insights and control over the wastewater networks by detecting anomalies and public health threats , track to their source and communicating their impact in real-time.
Company's Solutions
Kando’s latest product suite is comprised of two key components: Kando Quality Pulse, and Kando Community Health Pulse. Kando Quality Pulse supports users revamp the way they look at their water network, providing a cost-effective way to improve wastewater quality using data analytics capabilities – helping municipalities and governments measure key data points in previously inaccessible ways.
Kando Community Health Pulse is Kando’s foremost product centered on WBE (Wastewater-Based Epidemiology). It supports healthcare authorities and decision-makers with both protection against diseases and other public health risks, and promotion of public health campaigns. Through sophisticated wastewater intelligence, healthcare providers can understand the spread of viral diseases and pandemics, formulate a response, and track metrics like nutrient consumption, which are indicative of public health trends.
Prominent Case Study
Community Health Pulse - Protecting Public health
From late 2021, Kando has partnered with the Israeli Ministry of Health, providing the data that underpins the country’s national WBE program for COVID-19.
Kando’s solution provides a continuous flow of data from every area in Israel with a population of more than 20k - providing decision makers with the data insights they need to manage responses in the moment, and plan for the future.
Quality Pulse - Water Reuse
Igudan owns the Dan Region Wastewater Treatment Plant (SHAFDAN) in Rishon Letzion, approximately 10 km south of Tel Aviv. The plant currently treats 370,000 m3/d of municipal wastewater from a population of over 2.0 million in the Greater Tel Aviv area.
The SHAFDAN WWTP, gathers different authorities, satellite cities and is only responsible for the main collectors and not for the network in each authority.
Kando’s technology was implemented in main collectors which discharge to the SHAFDAN WWTP in order to understand which city/authority is contributing to the contamination of the WWTP.
Igudan’s general concern is the quality of the inlet to the WWTP as they are using the effluents for irrigation purposes and as long as there is high salinity, they require a discharge of the effluents to the sea – what cost millions of dollars a year.
After using Kando Pulse, It was estimated that it would cost around $10M per year if the effluent were discharged into the sea rather than re-used for agricultural purposes. The amount of reused water that is available now for agriculture rather than to sea discharge is up to 140M m3/year.