Amphiro has developed and proven the world's first complete IoT-stack for the digitalization of drinking water faucets. The technology fits to every faucet and includes energy-autarkic modules that measure, communicate, and display water and heat energy consumption in real-time and at the point of use. It also includes cloud storage and analytics tools as well as APIs and customizable smart phone apps.
The IoT-stack enables mass market applications that monitor personal energy and water consumption at the point of use and thus to promote hygiene, water and energy efficiency as well as data-based services in the private and commercial sector.
The first proof-of-concept product, a consumption feedback-device for showers, has been sold over 40 000 times and demonstrated its quality in the field.
All hardware modules are completely powered by water flow and can easily be retrofitted by end-users or integrated by OEMs into mass market faucets. Amphiro addresses a market of environmentally aware and technology affine customers, supplies products to efficiency campaigns, and simultaneously builds up an excellent position to deliver components for the digitalization of drinking water systems.
This SME Instrument phase-1 project helped Amphiro to further develop the network capability for digital services and to probe several variations of a business model, select the best approach, and define for phase 2 the required, accompanying apps and analytics services.
The detailed assessment of the market needs and trends in this phase-1-project, the durability of the solution in the field, the long-term effects achieved, and last but not least the sales figures achieved assert the viability of the business. Moreover, feedback from virtually all leading faucet and fitting manufacturers led to the extension the business plan that now, in addition to the retrofit products, also includes business from selling licences and service to producers of mass market faucets for an integration in their products portfolio.
The project shall be continued and extended by offering the technology stack to faucet and fitting manufacturers in support of the digital transformation of their product and service portfolio.
