Excellent Response Growing post-KBIS for Optimum Monitor and Detection Device Designed for Commercial and Consumer Applications
WESTMINSTER, CA – AquaOne Technologies, an innovator of water management systems, continues to receive tremendous interest following the debut of the company’s new H2ORB, the compact, patented water control instrument designed for both consumer and commercial applications.
The introduction of H2ORB was made by AquaOne Founder and CEO Richard Quintana at the annual Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) held last month in Las Vegas.
“We are extremely gratified by the response we have received since the launch of H2ORB in Las Vegas,” said Quintana. “Based on statistics, we explained that property damage is rated number two in terms of insurance claims, and stressed that our H2ORB is the product that will help combat that ongoing problem. The response justifies our six years of research and development.”
H2ORB is designed to meet the needs of the hospitality industry, as well as skilled nursing, hospitals and senior living facilities, apartment complex operators, universities as well as individual homeowners worldwide.
“Everyone wants to stop leaking toilets that waste water,” Quintana added. “Standing water also can cause tremendous damage to one’s home or business. In some cases, preventing such water leaks and toilet overflows can not only help protect property, but more importantly, a life.”
Applications via Testing
As a former director for assisted living facilities, Quintana, a systems design engineer by training, knows the costly consequences of toilet overflows and leaks. “Overflows caused by both leaking toilets and those that were clogged and not immediately cleared resulted in considerable dollar amounts for cleanup, repair and replacement of damaged property,” he noted.
“In the field of assisted living and skilled nursing operations, we have to make sure our restroom facilities are working correctly at all times,” Quintana went on to say. “I never wanted a situation where one of our residents or patients slipped in their bathroom and injured themselves because they didn’t see or know there was standing water on the floor, no doubt caused by a toilet that overflowed.”
After searching for a product that would effectively detect and stop those potential leaks, but finding nothing, Quintana decided to draw upon his engineering background and design an applicable product. As a result of diligent research, Quintana was able to develop a reliable, working overflow-stopping prototype for tank toilets.
After more than six years of extensive and exhaustive research and development, including multiple “real-life” tests – conducted at University of California, Riverside, and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, as well as several Southern California hospitals and nursing facilities – Quintana is confident H2ORB is now ready to reach a larger population. He also holds seven patents on the product, with additional patents pending both domestically and internationally.
In addition, a Pasadena Water & Power Department study has examined how H2ORB can also function as a water conservation device, one of the key functions of water control management. “Clearly, water conservation is important to all of us,” Quintana stressed.
Product Description
H2ORB is a round, compact, extremely sophisticated monitoring device. It contains a microprocessor that is the heart of the globe. H2ORB easily attaches to the toilet’s water line and automatically detects and stops bowl overflows, tank overflows and tank leaks of all sizes. A replaceable battery lasting approximately five years powers the system.
“AquaOne is very pleased to be working with several prominent technology partners including Texas Instruments, which provides H2ORB with its MSP430 chip technology,” Quintana added.
In addition to TI, other suppliers to H2ORB include Hamlin Sensors; SAI-Burgess, which provides the pulse cellenoid; and Predan, which developed the low frequency antenna embedded in H2ORB’s circuit board.
“The components of H2ORB are talking all the time, 24/7,” Quintana declared, “enabling H2ORB to stand guard over one’s toilet and plumbing. Together, this sophisticated
technology makes H2ORB unique, efficient and practical – the perfect plumbing component every home, shared living space and business should have.”
H2ORB is manufactured by AquaOne, and will be ready for distribution summer 2005. “We’re very excited about our launch,” Quintana summed up. “H2ORB is generating interest domestically as well as internationally, based on the contacts we’ve made from both KBIS and outside the show. We have done a number of demonstration tests and provided product to various industries and countries.
“We’re very determined to have H2ORB become a valued protection system to prevent structural damage, reduce insurance claims, as well as conserve our precious resource, water.
H2ORB Demand Sky Rockets!