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Opti

United States
2014
Private
< $10m
11 - 50
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Opti is building the Internet of Stormwater to protect our water resources.

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Stormwater management is one of the most pressing urban environmental issues in the developed world. In the US alone, we discharge over 900 billion gallons of raw sewage into natural bodies every year due to combined sewer overflows. In addition, stormwater runoff can carry pollutants from urban and agricultural land into natural water bodies, resulting in eutrophication. Furthermore, due to urbanization, stormwater often flows too quickly into local water bodies, stirring up sediment and wreaking havoc on local species. These issues, and others, are consequences of the timing and flow rate of stormwater release. Opti automatically controls when and how fast stormwater flows. This simple intervention can have a massive impact on the health of our water ecosystem. Opti started in 2007, when we needed a better way to manage the water flowing in and out of a salt marsh in the Northeast. To solve this problem, we embedded a web server on a control board and integrated internet-based information into the logic for a pneumatic valve to manage the inflow and outflow from a salt marsh. It worked. The system achieved the goals of the NOAA funded research project, and it improved the health of the salt marsh. We realized then that the integration of on-site sensor and weather forecast information into control logic of distributed systems had broad applications for improving the performance of engineered environmental systems. But doing so safely at a citywide scale, would require us to adopt new approaches to infrastructure specification, information management, network communications, and software development. We began, and continue to develop, the platform we now know as Opti on the Microsoft Azure cloud because it continues to lead the way in robust, redundant, and secure cloud platforms. Along the way, we collected a strong group of partners, completed a three-year WERF research study, patented some of our algorithms, and deployed projects throughout the US. We were growing quickly, and the need was greater than we could handle inside Geosyntec Consultants. We forged a partnership with MissionPoint Partners and in 2014 struck out as an independent company to focus our efforts where our platform could make the highest impact - optimizing stormwater management.

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Use Cases
Outdoor Environmental Monitoring
Opti’s Technology Stack maps Opti’s participation in the IoT technology stack.
  • Application Layer
  • Functional Applications
  • Cloud Layer
  • Platform as a Service
    Infrastructure as a Service
  • Edge Layer
  • Automation & Control
    Processors & Edge Intelligence
    Actuators
    Sensors
  • Devices Layer
  • Robots
    Drones
    Wearables
  • Supporting Technologies
  • Analytics & Modeling
    Application Infrastructure & Middleware
    Cybersecurity & Privacy
    Networks & Connectivity
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Number of Case Studies10
Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater Harvesting
The Twin Oaks branch of the Austin Public Library wanted to upgrade its existing rainwater harvesting system to improve its wet-weather performance.
Coal Dust Suppression System
Coal Dust Suppression System
One of the country's largest coal transfer facilities operated by a large multinational, required an intelligent rainwater harvesting system to reduce potable water use and help eliminate stormwater discharges.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Ponds: OptiNimbus for Combined Sewer Overflow Reduction
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Ponds: OptiNimbus for Combined Sewer Overflow Reduction
Brooklyn Botanic Garden sought a comprehensive site water harvesting and recirculation system to maintain its landscape, water features, and special tree and plant species while minimizing impacts on the environment by reducing wet-weather discharge.
Number of Similar Suppliers6
Stellapps Technologies
Stellapps Technologies
Stellapps is an end-to-end dairy technology solutions company – the first of its kind in India. They are an IIT-Madras incubated company founded by a group of IITians and technologists with a strong industry background and rich experience including IIT-Madras, IIT-Kharagpur and IIM-Ahmedabad alumni, with over 18 years of Industry experience across Wipro, Nortel, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Vodafone, Telstra, Bharti-Airtel, Aircel, Avaya, Cisco et al. Stellapps produce and procure comprehensive farm optimization and monitoring support, which helps dairy farmers and cooperatives maximize profits while minimizing effort. Stellapps is funded by Omnivore Capital – a fund anchored by Godrej Agrovet Limited and investment patrons include a large group of IIT alumni.
Locus Technologies
Locus Technologies
Founded in 1997 in Silicon Valley, Locus Technologies is a leading provider of enterprise Software-as-a-Service solutions, with a focus on environmental information, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS+S) compliance. We develop comprehensive software for businesses, organizations, and governmental agencies of all sizes and industries worldwide.Locus is known for its environmental information management (EIM) system— our industry-leading software for the entire environmental sampling and analysis workflow. Our Locus Platform software provides fully configurable, next-generation applications and services, helping our clients to better manage their EHS+S operations.At Locus, we believe the key to an organization's environmental stewardship strategy lies in its approach to data management— we design our software with this vision in mind.
Aptomar
Aptomar
Aptomar is a leading provider of Integrated Field Monitoring sensors, systems and services for the oil and gas industry. The company focuses on protecting the safety and integrity of people, the environment and assets by managing; 24/7 oil spill detection and combating, surveillance and security as well as search and rescue in close cooperation with Industry. Year founded: 2005
Weathermatic
Weathermatic
Weathermatic is the pioneer and the world’s leading provider of Smart Irrigation Controllers for commercial applications. SmartLink is a web-based landscape irrigation solution allowing landscape contractors and property owners to manage all their sites from any computer or mobile device and a simple internet connection. It also allows property owners to get real-time visibility to the water savings from smart irrigation.
Rain Bird Corporation
Rain Bird Corporation
ClimateMinder is a wireless climate monitoring and control system for agriculture. It utilizes machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile network technology to transmit actionable data from the field directly to growers' mobile phones, computers and control systems. The mobile technology enables farmers to receive alerts to conditions that may threaten crops and to take timely action - even when located at great distances from fields and greenhouses.The mobile technology enables farmers to receive alerts to conditions that may threaten crops and to take timely action - even when located at great distances from fields and greenhouses.
Number of Partners1
Particle
Particle
Particle makes tools for engineers and designers to create amazing new experiences through internet-connected hardware. Particle offers a suite of hardware and software tools to help you prototype, scale, and manage your Internet of Things (IoT) products.
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