How Bluebot exposed a $13,000 water billing error—and almost six years of overbilling.

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Many water “monitoring” devices on the market don’t actually measure water flow. Instead, they use magnetic or optical readers attached to the city-installed meter, simply digitizing whatever the municipal meter reports.

While this approach can be useful for alerts and trend tracking, it has a critical limitation:

If the city meter is wrong, the data will be wrong too.

How bluebot helped University of the Nations Campus save $3.5 million

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Using the data collected from the bluebot devices, the UNK team conducted a comprehensive water usage assessment from September 2022 to March 2023. The assessment included analyzing per capita water use rates for both residents and day visitors, as well as evaluating historical water consumption and conservation initiatives implemented on the campus.