Case Study - City of Monash Pits

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City of Monash, Melbourne

Matter is proud to pilot their storm water pit sensors with the City of Monash, a moderate sized council in Melbourne.

Ambition: Teaming up with City of Monash for a storm water pit sensor trial, to track water levels, events and help with flood mitigation.

Priority move: Trial sensing storm water pit information and displaying this on our Capture dashboard for convenient viewing.

Matter Objectives: 
•  provide measurement systems (Sense)
•  provide measurement data (Capture)
•  provide novel monitoring systems (inc CaptureOS)

Preliminary results from the trial found:

371645 data point

Real time data to date.

2,765 reports

On overflowing pits (approx.)

9% of pits

Reported blockages.
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