about TRITON

TRITON, Intelligent Water Surveillance®, developed by A.U.G. Signals Ltd. (AUG) is an innovative system that combines superior signal processing, multi-source data fusion technologies and a high-resolution spectrometric system. The water monitoring system provides accurate water quality information and synthesizes all sensor-acquired data streams - all in real-time. TRITON empowers government authorities and water facilities to preventively manage contamination by providing real-time accurate water quality information, ensuring drinking water meets safety standards and effectively protecting public health.

Using the most advanced online water quality sensors, spectrometer and signal processing technologies, TRITON empowers government authorities and water facilities to preventively manage contamination events, effectively protecting public health, meeting World Health Organization (WHO) standards and avoiding the potential social and economic losses associated with these events.

TRITON - Water Quality Monitoring System Provider

key features

Ready for Anything

TRITON can be made to monitor any continuously measurable parameter, contaminant, or operational parameter required for any type of water monitoring.

Future-proof Design

AUG's decades of experience in sensor fusion and TRITONs modular construction ensures that your system will remain relevant many years from now.

Low False Alarm Rate

TRITON intelligently mitigates false alarms with alerting algorithms developed independently for each parameter.

Intelligent Data Forecasting

TRITON is capable of providing advanced warning in cases where critical parameters threaten to exceed limits.

24/7 High-resolution Data

TRITON provides measurement results every minute which can be accessed from anywhere via AUG's Signal Fusion online interface.

Scalable & Customizable

TRITON can be custom-built to users' specifications with minimal invasiveness.

why choose TRITON

in one word: flexibility

TRITON can be seamlessly integrated with existing sensors and data infrastructure, so there is no need to say good-bye to existing technologies with which you are still satisfied. At the same time, TRITON is fully compatible with any additional sensor(s) required for your unique application, and can be made to utilize any data transmission method or protocol users prefer, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, LTE, analog, LoRa, ModBUS, HART, etc. Simply put: if a sensor exists on the market, TRITON can interface with it.

For customers looking for a turn-key solution, AUG can propose ready-made sensor suites optimized for your unique needs upon request with different pricing options available. AUG has carefully vetted a wide selection of water sensors from reputable manufacturers and will recommend only those which meet the company's high standards of accuracy, reproducibility, and overall user experience.

deployments

Developed by Experts in Signal Processing and Sensor Fusion

The water analysis group at A.U.G Signals Ltd. is dedicated to helping operators and regulators monitor critical treatment parameters and newly emerging contaminants. In 2011 the company launched the TRITON Intelligent Water Surveillance platform, which combines online sensors for conventional water parameters with AUG's proprietary spectrophotometric analysis of chemical contaminants. TRITON has since been deployed for "drinking water monitoring" in Beijing, China (for the duration of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit); Lanzhou, China (since 2016); 20 remote indigenous communities in Northwest Ontario (since 2017); Genoa, Italy (since 2019); and Corinth, Greece (since 2021). AUG has also adapted TRITON to be used for different water monitoring applications in various pilot projects, including "agricultural runoff" (Southern Ontario and Bavaria, Germany, since 2018), "municipal wastewater" (Southern Ontario and Baden-Württemberg, Germany, since 2018), and "source water" (Southern Ontario, since 2022).

TRITON - Water Monitoring Sensor/ System

TRITON is applicable for any type of water monitoring, be it a major drinking water plant, a standalone facility for industrial wastewater remediation, or a remotely situated source water monitor. Other possible water surveillance applications include, but are not limited to, municipal wastewater, groundwater, agricultural runoff, seawater, and desalinated water. AUG's experience with sensor and component selection for diverse applications allows us to tailor TRITON to your unique needs.

New contaminants of concern, such as pesticides, prescription medications, personal care products, etc. are difficult for water treatment plants to detect and treat. This poses a serious challenge for water utilities, as do increasingly stringent regulatory guidelines put in place to protect human health and the environment. New-and-improved sensors and dedicated instruments are continually being introduced to address these emerging contaminants and changing regulatory demands. AUG's decades of experience in sensor fusion and TRITONs modular construction ensures that your system will remain relevant many years from now.

New and emerging threats to water operators are often not chemical in nature, however: data security is a major concern as water treatment and testing enters the digital age. TRITON users can rest assured that their sensitive data is safe and secure, with the option of transmitting data to AUG’s secure server for visualization and storage or to their own servers for the most highly confidential data. YOUR data, YOUR business.

TRITON sends alerts to operators which are based on proprietary algorithms developed by AUG. The system automatically determines whether to issue an alert or to wait, even when readings exceed user- defined limits. Independent algorithms are developed for every measured parameter, and each is therefore treated differently with regards to the required conditions for triggering an alert.

This example shows an event in which turbidity spiked well above the user-defined limit of 1 NTU. This exceedance did not result in an operator alert because such spikes are commonplace and not harmful.

TRITON determined from the shape of the peak that this was not a serious turbidity event and therefore did not create what would be seen as a false alarm by operators.

TRITON does not only notify users of adverse water quality events with real-time alerts; the intelligent data forecasting feature actively predicts these events before they occur based on current parameter/contaminant trending and user-specified alarm thresholds.

This image shows one instance where chlorine levels measured for finished water in a remote community were trending downward and projected to fall below the minimum required concentration. An alert was sent to the operators and corrective action was taken which prevented an adverse water quality event and a community-wide boil water advisory.

TRITON provides high-resolution data in 1-minute intervals for every parameter that is tracked. High- resolution data provides information about increases and decreases of every parameter and whether such changes are sudden spikes or prolonged events, which is critical for users' decision making and understanding of trends. It is this high-resolution data that—when combined with AUG's proprietary signal processing algorithms—allows for TRITON's intelligent alerting and event forecasting. High- resolution data collection is also an important tool for capturing short-duration pulses of hazardous contaminants, many of which are typically only sampled quarterly or yearly, e.g., heavy metals, pesticides, aromatic hydrocarbons, etc.

This high-resolution data is available to TRITON users 24/7 via AUG's Signal Fusion online user interface. With this tool, users can access their online measurement results up to the minute and plot charts to visualize long-term parameter trends from anywhere.

Each water monitoring application is unique, and operators know what they want. This is why AUG has designed TRITON for maximum flexibility, being fully compatible with any existing sensor platform with which users do not wish to part. TRITON can be installed to fill in the gaps of a monitoring system without getting in the way of what already works.

Users needing added monitoring capability for progressively more rigorous regulatory demands, niche requirements, and emerging contaminants of concern can also look to TRITON. AUG is specialized in sensor fusion and has put this expertise to use to make TRITON a fully modular solution that can interface with any sensor on the market.