(Alliance News) - Integumen PLC on Wednesday launched a new water contamination monitoring system called ecowaterOS, as it announced the promotion of its sales director, Fionan Murray, to chief operations officer, effective immediately.
The personal health care company also said it has promoted Paul Ryan to chief sales officer.
ecowaterOS - or ecological water operating system - is a data management ecosystem that monitors and analyses water for bacteria contamination using artificial intelligence, sending real-time alerts to users notifying them about any contamination.
ecowaterOS will provide clients with services from a consortium of water decontamination solution providers, such as Rinocloud AI, Acumen Software and the Nimbus Research Centre. Other consortium members include Cork Institute of Technology, biodegradable plastic ingredients provider Cellulac PLC, Modern Water PLC, and the tcBB Resource Centre.
"The consortium brings together multiple partners with a combined 32 years of tried and tested engineering skillsets added to smart AI cloud-based data analytic technologies and best-in-class engineering at commercial scale across the brewing, biofuel, chemical and wastewater industries, said Integumen Chief Executive Gerard Brandon.
"With raising awareness of the direct impact of climate change across the world on systems vital to our well-being, ecowaterOS is a global game-changer for water monitoring, recovery, treatment and recycling," he added.
Separately, consortium member Modern Water said it signed an agreement with Cellulac to enter a multi-year framework services agreement to be completed by March 31 for the supply of water contamination monitoring equipment, services and decontamination membrane solutions across Cellulac's sales, marketing & distribution channels in waste-water, chemical, biochemical, biofuel and biodegradable plastic industries.
Modern Water also noted it has joined the ecowaterOS consortium, as it transitions to a "revenue-sharing collaborative and commercial partnership strategy".
"We are delighted to be able to provide the knowledge and expertise of our water monitoring services and supplies along with decontamination systems to the ecowaterOS multi-continental consortium. This unique platform of integrated water management systems, from contamination detection to decontamination is a world first end-to-end hi-tech solution to community, regional and continental-wide water shortages," said Modern Water Chief Executive Simon Humphrey.
Integumen stock was trading 3.9% lower at 1.36 pence each at midday Wednesday in London. Modern Water shares were down 6.7% at 0.70 pence each.
By Ife Taiwo; ifetaiwo@alliancenews.com
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