interview Harro Brons/Tim van Leeuwen
With the SAM4 monitoring unit, water companies can detect failures or prospective damage at an early stage. Developer Samotics, based in Leiden, a city south of Amsterdam, won the prestigious WIS Award 2020 with this product. The predictive maintenance system is being rolled out at companies in the Netherlands and far beyond. One such company is Anglian Water, in the UK. Water Alliance linked the Dutch scale-up and the British water company.
Samotics arrives in the UK through Water Alliance Samotics’ Tim van Leeuwen demonstrating the SAM4
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Advanced algorithms
patterns and advanced algorithms, the
have a large and growing library of
A water pump that is no longer
monitoring unit can detect upcoming
those fingerprints. This allows us to
functioning properly or is in danger
faults. Tim van Leeuwen, Head of
not only indicate that an anomaly is
of failing shows a different pattern
Sales at Samotics: “SAM4 is constantly
occurring, but we know exactly what
than a healthy pump. SAM4 collects
looking for anomalies in the data. Each
is going on.” SAM4 is installed in the
current and voltage data and uses it to
specific form of failure leaves its own
switch box, making it particularly
map numerous patterns. Using these
‘fingerprint’ in the patterns. We now
suitable for monitoring pumps installed
