Project description
A smart way to maintain your pool
The water in any swimming pool or backyard spa needs constant and careful monitoring. Oftentimes, this requires a professional service technician to ensure water sanitation and balance. Pool and spa chemists have developed a variety of sanitation tests and methods. The EU-funded Ofi project is developing a smartphone application and an intelligent floating device that can analyse the pH, chlorine/bromine/salt, alkalinity and water hardness values in real time using electrochemical analysis. The values and advice about maintenance actions are reported directly to the application user. The project will target private owners of pools and home spas as well as pool professionals and retailers.
Objective
In ensuring safe, hygienic swimming environment, spas and pools need to be frequently checked and adjusted to maintain optimum levels of pH, chlorine/bromine/salt and water hardness. As most pool/spa owners perform the checks manually and constantly using visual analysis colorimetry-based solutions, users do not always get accurate results, posing health and wellness risk when corrective chemicals are added based on inaccurate readings. Delays in water analysis leads to increased quantities of corrective chemical products (>20%), wall damages, continuously running filtration systems, all resulting in increased maintenance costs. There is need for a solution that can leverage the home automation and connected device trend to remotely control, monitor and maintain water quality with minimal direct visits to the pool and reduce annual maintenance cost.
Asamgo, a passionate French company has developed Ofi, is an intelligent floating device which floats on the surface of the pool/spa analysing the pH, chlorine/bromine/salt, alkalinity and water hardness values of the water in real time via the electrochemical analysis method. These values are accurately returned on Smartphone App and are accompanied by advice on maintenance actions to be carried out if necessary.
Our target customers are private pool and spa owners, pool professionals, pool maintenance distributors and retailers. Ofi eliminates the recurring manual water analysis tasks and will offer 20% reduction of amounts of chemicals required for ideal pool condition, real-time feedback on status of the pool and immediate notification when levels are not right, 99.99% accuracy on recommended remedy measures and reduced overall maintenance costs. In addition, maintenance products recommended by Ofi can be ordered through the Ofi App.
Within a 4-year period, we expect to generate a cumulative revenue of €20.10-million gross profit of €7.04-million while creating a total of 13 jobs.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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29200 BREST
France
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