KETOS

KETOS monitors water continuously at the point of use and turns the readings into a real-time picture of water quality and water efficiency for the operator running the plant, the well field, or the irrigation system. The KETOS SHIELD is the water-quality unit: an autonomous IoT instrument that pulls a sample, runs the chemistry, and reports lab-accurate results within plus or minus 10 percent of certified lab values across more than 30 parameters, including heavy metals (lead, copper, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium VI), nutrients (nitrates, nitrites, orthophosphates, ammonia), and environmental factors (total dissolved solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity). The unit self-cleans and self-calibrates between tests, runs indoor or outdoor, and communicates over LoRa, WiFi, cellular, or customer networks. The KETOS WAVE is the smart-metering sibling, monitoring flow, pressure, and volume to detect leaks and main breaks across distributed networks; the unit is self-powered by an inline turbine that generates electricity from the water flow itself. The KETOS Smart Water Intelligence Platform sits above both: AI-driven predictive analytics, EPA-aligned automated reporting, threshold alerts to phone or web, and outbound APIs into the customer's SCADA system.

Customers don’t buy SHIELD or WAVE hardware; KETOS owns it, installs it, calibrates it, and maintains it. The customer pays one recurring service fee that bundles the hardware lease, all consumables, all connectivity, cloud hosting, predictive analytics, unlimited testing frequency, and unlimited user licenses. This is hardware-as-a-service in its narrow definition: vendor-retained hardware, customer-paid recurring access, with no capital purchase on the customer's balance sheet. The same business model covers a small rural utility running one SHIELD on a single well or a Fortune 500 manufacturer running dozens across multiple plants. Because the fee does not change with how often the customer tests or how many parameters they test, scaling the platform across a fleet of sites does not change the unit economics for the customer.