Charlotte, N.C. (October 6th, 2014) – InfoSense, Incorporated today announced it has been selected as a finalist for the NC Tech Awards Energy and the Environment Use of Technology Category. The NC Tech Awards is North Carolina’s only statewide technology awards program, recognizing companies and individuals who have characterized excellence, innovation and leadership, presented by the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA).

InfoSense, Inc. is a technology-driven C-corporation spun out of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to commercialize a promising acoustic inspection technology developed by a faculty member. Our patented technology uses sound waves to non-invasively detect blockages in sewer collection pipe. The innovation of the underlying technology lies in the fact that our product uses an active transmit and receive process to assess pipe blockage conditions as compared to the reflective nature of similar applications such as SONAR.  The active transmit and receive process works extremely well in pipes to detect abnormalities in a simple, low cost, and straightforward way.

“Since 1995, the NC Tech Awards (formerly the NCTA 21 Awards) have honored companies for outstanding achievement in the tech sector and use of technology. As a finalist in this year’s awards, InfoSense has distinguished itself as one of the state’s technology leaders,” stated Brooks Raiford, NCTA’s President and CEO.

A review committee comprised of non-profit, media, education, and technology leaders representing various regions of the state selected this year’s finalists. The awards process culminates with the NC Tech Awards Gala on November 6, 2014 at the Raleigh Convention Center where nearly 800 leaders from across the state will gather to celebrate the tech sector and honor the winners and finalists in each category.

InfoSense CEO, Dr. George Selembo said “We appreciate NCTA’s recognition of the innovation and triple bottom line benefits inherent in our Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool or SL-RAT. The SL-RAT is improving the environment through reduced sewer overflows as well as improving our customer’s efficiency, and allowing our company to create new jobs right here in North Carolina.”

About NCTA

The North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) is a not-for-profit, membership-driven trade association and the primary voice of the technology industry in North Carolina. NCTA is the intersection of leadership and technology, fueling the growth of North Carolina through Executive Engagement, Public Affairs, and a Knowledge Workforce. For more information, visit our website at www.nctechnology.org.

About InfoSense

InfoSense, Inc. manufactures the Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool, or SL-RAT^®, in Charlotte, NC. The SL-RAT^® has inspected over 8 million feet of municipal sewer pipe around the world – reducing sewer overflows and saving customers millions of dollars. For more information, visit our website at www.infosenseinc.com.

Austeck won the Best Stand award with the SL-RAT at Civinex Q in Queensland Australia this past week. This is their 3^rd best stand award while representing the InfoSense, Inc. innovative acoustic inspection technology – the Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool – SL-RAT®.

Please drop by InfoSense’s Booth #2008 for an inaugural Equipment Demonstration as part of the WEFTEC technical sessions. Two opportunities to see a live demonstration of InfoSense’s award winning acoustic inspection technology – the Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool, or SL-RAT®

“Acoustic Inspection of Gravity-Fed Sanitary Sewer Lines”   Booth#2008
Monday, 3:05-3:25
Tuesday, 3:05-3:25

The Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool, or SL-RAT®, Made Its Debut In New Zealand at lexapro online uk the Water NZ Show in Claudelands on September 17th-19th.   We are pleased to share that Austeck, www.austeck.com, the exclusive SL-RAT distributor for Australia and New Zealand took top honors for Best Exhibition Stand.

9/16 – 9/17/2014  InfoSense will be exhibiting with The Avanti Company at The Water Expo at the Miami Beach Convention Center.  Please stop by and see our award winning condition assessment acoustic inspection technology for wastewater collection system cleaning operations, the SL-RAT®.

8/26 – 8/27 George Selembo CEO PhD, PE of InfoSense to present at Oregon Operator’s Conference in Roseburg Oregon Tuesday 8/26 from 10:10 to 11:10.  InfoSense will also be exhibiting with our local sales partner General Equipment. Please stop by and see our award winning condition assessment acoustic inspection technology for wastewater collection system cleaning operations, the SL-RAT®.

A U.S. EPA report validating the SL-RAT technology was published this week:

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Several pertinent excerpts are included below:

“The results of this demonstration of the SL‐RAT show promise for the application of this technology as a tool for cost‐effective, pre‐cleaning assessment and post‐cleaning quality assurance. The application of this technology in an overall collection system O&M program should enable wastewater utilities to optimize their sewer cleaning efforts and free up valuable resources to more effectively implement critical CMOM and asset management programs.”

“Rapid assessment approaches and tools provide an avenue to significant pre‐cleaning inspection cost savings that could be achieved through reduced inspection and non‐productive cleaning costs.”

“The emergence of acoustic sewer inspection technologies, like SL‐RAT, as rapid deployment, low‐cost, reliable, pre‐cleaning assessment tools is focusing growing attention on the potential for more cost‐effective sewer cleaning programs. Through the ease of deployment, reduction of cost, increases in reliability of these inspection approaches, combined with the potential for reducing the “cleaning of clean pipes,” significant cost savings are attainable. As utilities apply these new inspection technologies, they can move towards implementing sewer cleaning programs that consist of planned directed and quick response, reactive cleaning. Also, these cost savings can be realized while improving collection system performance and the protection of public health and water quality.”

“The results of this demonstration project reveal the potential for more cost‐effective sewer cleaning programs. The site specific pre‐cleaning assessment inspection costs resulting from this project and MSDGC’s historic practices for CCTV (on‐road), CCTV (off‐road), and SL‐RAT (on‐and off‐road) are $1.68/ft., $2.03/ft., and $0.14/ft., respectively. So, for pre‐cleaning assessment, the application of the SL‐RAT can reduce MSDGC’s costs by $1.54/ft. for on‐road sewers and $1.89/ft. for off‐road sewers. In addition, by moving to a sewer cleaning program predominated by planned directed cleaning, MSDGC can save $2.00/ft. by reducing its “cleaning of clean pipe.” In total, when costs of conventional CCTV inspection and cleaning are combined, for each pipe segment that is deemed “clean” using the SL‐RAT, MSDGC can save $3.54/ft. for on‐road sewers and $3.89/ft. for off‐road sewers.”

InfoSense’s CEO George Selembo to present at the Trenchless Technology Roadshow in Niagara Falls, ON.  May 29, 2014.  Presentation title: “Evaluation of Rapid Acoustic Pipe Inspection for Prioritizing Cleaning and CCTV Resources”.  Website: http://catttrenchlessroadshow.ca/

May 22^nd – Tennessee Association of Utility Districts Operator Expo –Lebanon, TN – InfoSense will be exhibiting with our sales partners – MoS Environmental and Heyward, Inc.  http://www.taud.org/Conferences/OperatorExpo.htm