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Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

It's up to us to stop water waste! The Aquai Puck monitors your water use to save water and money!

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Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

Aquai Puck: Smart Home Water Meter

It's up to us to stop water waste! The Aquai Puck monitors your water use to save water and money!

It's up to us to stop water waste! The Aquai Puck monitors your water use to save water and money!

It's up to us to stop water waste! The Aquai Puck monitors your water use to save water and money!

It's up to us to stop water waste! The Aquai Puck monitors your water use to save water and money!

Mike Enkerlin
Mike Enkerlin
Mike Enkerlin
Mike Enkerlin
1 Campaign |
San Diego, United States
$10,102 USD 68 backers
67% of $15,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal

 

We have a major problem in our country.  We are running out of water. In 2015, the World Economic Forum ranked water as the Top Global Risk our planet faces.

Water is a scarce and limited resource.  If we don’t change our behavior and learn how to monitor our use and cut down on our water waste we will be looking at a whole country covered in images like the one below.





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Trend Hunter Eco: "Not only environmentally friendly but also economical, this app-connected device could be integrated into every home to limit droughts like that in California from occurring all over the world."
Internet's Best Secrets: "...Easy to install modules and affordable prices, that will allow you to keep an eye on what's using most water."
Aberto ate de Madrugada: "O Aquai Puck é um pequeno módulo que bastará colocar na alimentação de água para cada aparelho que se queira medir (autoclismo, máquinas de lavar, chuveiros, etc.) e que começará a guardar um registo da quantidade de água utilizada que poderá ser visto num smartphone ou tablet."

The Aquai Puck is a small, simple, and easy to use device. It attaches to your water appliances to and measures your water use.

The Aquai Puck will help you do your part in wasting less water by telling you exactly how much water each appliance in your house is using, and if you have a leak, it will alert you. You can set goals such as time spent in the shower, gallons per shower, or total gallons used in the house. So long, wasteful showers!

The Aquai Puck is part of a solution that also includes a mobile app and optional WiFi connector.

The mobile app enables you to connect to and control one or more Aquai Pucks. It aggregates all your water use information and allows you to make more  informed choices about water consumption. It even feeds you recommendations that allow you to reduce water use.


The WiFi Connector provides realtime visibility into all connected Pucks and gives you the ability to see water data from anywhere with an internet connection.

It is a small device with a big impact.


You might be wondering, do I need just one Aquai Puck, or one for every fixture in the house? And what parts do I need? 

The Aquai Puck is simple and scalable.  You can start with the largest water consuming appliances in the house and add more Pucks as you want them. We recommend installing your Pucks in the following order of impact:


Start with the toilets, showers and washing machines, and you've covered 65% of the house.

Because the Aquai Puck monitors leaks as well, this plan will give you 85% coverage of your indoor water use.

Once you have attached Pucks to all your chosen appliances don’t forget to download the free mobile app and sync it to your Pucks so you can set goals and see how much water (and money) you are saving!


For Bluetooth connectivity, you will need one Aquai Puck (per appliance) and the free mobile app.


For Internet connectivity, you will need one Aquai Puck (per appliance), an Aquai WiFi Connector, and the free mobile app.

Make sure you buy the right number of Pucks for your main appliances. Most only need one Puck, but any appliance with separate hot and cold hoses requires 2.



The Aquai Puck is an investment!  It will save you money each month on your water bill and will be paid for in no time.


If you own more than 1 property, this makes even more sense! You can connect all your properties together using the Mobile App and WiFi Connectors and even get alerts on your phone if there are leaks!



Aquai is great for homes, but also makes a huge impact in apartment complexes, hotels and public facilities. 

Just because you rent doesn't mean you can't get involved. Renters make up about 35% of all US households, so they have the power to make a big dent in water waste reduction.




“California's reservoirs have about a year's worth of water left. Groundwater levels, seen as a "savings account" that the state can draw from in dry times, are at an all-time low.” source


But the problem is not just in California and not only in severe drought. Population growth, increased agricultural demands, and increased water consumption per capita has created a systematic problem.


“21 of the world’s 37 largest aquifers — in locations from India and China to the United States and France — have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water was removed than replaced during the decade-long study period, researchers announced in June 2015.” source


The average American uses as much as 150 gallons of water per day. According to a study performed by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Americans use twice the amount of water they think they do.  In fact, Americans use more water than any other developed country in the world. 




If you take a long shower you might think, what’s the harm? Isn’t that water being recycled?

The short answer is no. Most of the time it is not.

Recycling water is very expensive and as a result, communities continue to use fresh water resources.

That’s why it is more important than ever to monitor our water use!


The Puck takes just a few minutes to install and does not require special equipment or permanent modifications to your water line. Just disconnect the existing water hose from the pipe, connect the Puck, screw the water hose to the device and you're done! 


Once the Puck is installed, it will measure the amount of water passing through it, giving you incredibly accurate readings of your water consumption per fixture.

The Puck will communicate with any mobile device within Bluetooth range in your home. That means you just have to be close to your appliance and you can get analytics straight to your phone. The app will tell you exactly the number of gallons used each day, and makes it easy to understand how much money that equates.



Set alerts and goals on your app to make it even easier to track your usage. Want to reduce your showers to 5 minutes? Set your goal in your app and the Puck will provide a light or sound alert when your goal has been reached. You don't even have to look at your phone to be notified - the light on your shower Puck will be right in front of your eyes!

You can also upgrade by adding a WiFi Connector unit for even more features. The Connector plugs into a centrally-located outlet and works similarly to a router, communicating with all the Pucks in the house using your existing WiFi connection.


This allows you to access information and analytics on each device even if you're away from home. The WiFi Connector needs to have a good WiFi signal available at the location it is installed. It has tested well at an average of 60 to 100 feet depending on home construction. For especially large homes, two connector units may be necessary.


We have explored many ways to measure water use to make it easy but most of all accurate and reliable. We first experimented with measuring a clamp-on ultrasound solution at the mainline, but after extensive testing by experts found that it was unreliable because of varying pipe size and material. In addition, the ultrasound technology requires a continuous power source at the pipe which is not always available.

We designed the Aquai Puck to be the most accurate solution on the market while solving all these problems. It has its own power source that can last an average of 2 years, it can work with any pipe size and material, and its super easy to install.




Dimensions: 60mm x 45mm x 45mm (2.36" x 1.75" x 1.75")

Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz

Power: CR2450 coin battery that lasts on average 2 years





Since there are different thread sizes for each appliance in your home, each Aquai Puck comes with thread fittings that match the most common appliance sizes.

*Pucks for sinks with thread sizes other than 1/2", as well as all dishwashers, are in development and will be coming soon. In the meantime, these appliances are not compatible.


The device is very low power and runs for over a year on a coin battery. The Puck has a smart power-saving algorithm that also includes a form of hibernation, so it is not constantly using power. 


Dimensions: 45mm x 45mm x 64mm (1.75" x 1.75" x 2.5")

Weight: 85g/3.0 oz

Power: Requires no batteries, plugs into an outlet.



The Wifi Connector is a hub that connects all the pucks in your home to each other and to the internet through your home internet connection.

It’s a great upgrade to the Aquai Puck! Let’s say you have 4 pucks in your home (2 toilets and 2 showers) with a WiFi Connector, you can connect all the pucks to your home WiFi and thus access them from anywhere.

How does it work?

1. Download App

2. Plug WiFi Connector into a wall socket

3. Use App to pair WiFi Connector to Home Wifi

4. Pucks become visible to App after Wifi Connector is active

5. Select profile for each Puck and set goals for each shower


The WiFi Connector also acts like a regular USB wall charger and, using an internal motion sensor to turn on the rear LEDs,  can act as a night light.






The great news is that the Aquai Puck is production ready. We already have most of the tooling for our product and have already begun to develop the app. Aquai is low risk and high reward. We have fully tested the product our design is patent protected. 

We still need your help! Your financial support will impact the following:

  • Development of electronics and tools for mass production
  • Development of the free Aquai mobile app
  • Pursuit of water certifications: Aquai is pursuing the UPC (Uniform Plumbing Code) certification with a Green Label. We will be certified as an approved item meeting the global plumbing codes as well as complying with the Green certification.
  • Pursuit of LEED Green certification

Water conservation is a global effort that needs all of our attention! If you believe in the cause of reducing our water consumption and waste, please share our campaign on your social media platforms. Even if you can't contribute to our campaign, spreading the word about this solution could have a huge impact on how the world looks at water.


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(Limited to earning 5 FREE Pucks)


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Founded to create inventive conservation solutions, Aquai Technologies is a North American startup company with a team of dedicated professionals with years of experience in the telecom, electronics manufacturing and R&D industries. We were founded in 2013 by Mike Enkerlin and Gorm Aaen with the vision to map and monitor water consumption. Inspired by the current state of the global water supply, the company seeks to help environmentally conscious homeowners, companies, and municipalities better manage their water consumption through the development of innovative and inexpensive conservation products.




Aquai is a high design product that demands high quality. It has several components that are being produced by different suppliers and must come together to create the final product. We are on a mission to set ourselves and our backers up to win through production, quality control, and logistics systems. However, there are always risks. Here are the top risks we are facing:

Manufacturing

There are many variables that may cause us to hit bumps in the road. In the “real” world, products are in development for often up to 2-3 years before they launch. Crowdfunding has created a unique situation where consumers are expecting things to hit very tight deadlines that truly are difficult to perfectly predict. We have done our best to account for unexpected delays, and a lot of planning has gone into this product release, but we still need to create tooling for a few components and could hit snags we didn't anticipate.

App and Electronics

Our app is already in development and our electronics are being polished, but we know bugs can cause issues and delays. A lot of testing has gone into our prototypes and our App and we believe we will be successful with our solutions. The time to solve unexpected bugs can be somewhat unpredictable and cause unexpected delays.

Fulfillment timing

Once the product is ready for production we have to get them made and shipped to us before we can ship them to our backers. Depending on our volumes, we may experience delays in getting all the units shipped. In addition, customs can slow things down. We will keep you apprised as things develop and let you know where things stand. We appreciate your support, and also thank you for your patience as we work hard to fulfill your pledges.



Do I need just one Puck, or one for every appliance? You will need one Puck for each waterline you would like to monitor. Some appliances like your washing machine will need two, one for hot and one for cold.

Can I use the Puck with EVERY appliance? Pucks for sinks with pipe thread sizes other than 1/2", as well as all dishwashers, are in development and will be coming soon. In the meantime, these appliances are not compatible.

There's no drought where I live. Why would I need to monitor usage? The drought affects everyone, and everyone affects the drought. It is our responsibility to reduce water weight so we don't experience droughts all over the country. Water resources are dwindling, not just in the western United States, so we need to be proactive and act before it's too late.

Does the Puck detect leaks? Yes, it will even give you alerts on the app to notify you that a leak has been detected.

How long do the batteries last? The batteries will last on average two years depending on usage patterns.

When will perks deliver? We will begin perk fulfillment in June 2016.

Is there a warranty on the product? Yes, we will have a warranty against manufacturing defects for both the Aquai Puck and the Aquai WiFi Connector.

How do I install the Puck device? It's super easy, just disconnect the water hose from the source, connect the Puck, and screw the water hose to the bottom of the device. Download the Aquai App, which will sense your device and start monitoring right away.

Can I monitor my water usage while I'm away from home? Yes, the app will allow you to monitor your water usage from outside the home but you will need to purchase the Aquai WiFi Connector. In an average sized home a centrally located WiFi Connector can give you access to all the installed Aquai Pucks.

Do I have to have a Wifi Connector to use the Puck? No, you can still get measurements from your Puck devices, you just have to be within Bluetooth distance from the Puck you want to obtain a reading from. The WiFi Connector also has secondary features, including a USB port and a motion sensor rear-lit night light.

What information can the Aquai Puck give me? I can tell you how much water you consumed, the temperature of the water, the pressure of the water, and recommendations on how to save money.
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EarlyBird Aquai Puck: 50% OFF

$25 USD
50% OFF One Aquai Puck when you buy now! Receive one Aquai Puck unit that you can attach to the appliance of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the Aquai WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection)
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
13 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Aquai Puck: $20 OFF

$29 USD
$20 OFF One Aquai Puck when you buy now! We will send you one Aquai Puck unit you can attach to the appliance of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the Aquai WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection)
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
0 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Aquai Puck: Buy 1, Get 1 FREE

$49 USD
Buy 1 Aquai Puck and Get 1 Aquai Puck for FREE! We will send you two Aquai Puck units you can attach to the appliances of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the Aquai WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection) View aggregated information from both units from the free app
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
8 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Aquai Puck

$49 USD
Get One Aquai Puck! We will send you one Aquai Puck unit you can attach to the appliance of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the Aquai WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection)
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
1 claimed
Ships worldwide.

EarlyBird: 50% OFF Puck + WiFi

$54 USD
50% OFF when you get an Aquai Puck and Aquai WiFi Connector Combo! You will get One Aquai Puck & One Aquai WiFi Connector. Attach the Aquai Puck to the appliance of your choice, plug the Aquai WiFi Connector into a wall outlet within range of your home wifi and access your Aquai Puck from anywhere. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
14 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Aquai WiFi Connector

$59 USD
Get One Aquai WiFi Connector* The Aquai WiFi Connector plugs into any wall socket. Once synced and active, it sends information from all your Aquai Pucks to the free phone app so you can access it from anywhere you have internet connection. *The Aquai WiFi Connector REQUIRES an Aquai Puck to function. And is currently only compatible with US outlets.
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
0 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Two Aquai Pucks

$98 USD
Get Two Aquai Pucks! We will send you two Aquai Puck units you can attach to the appliances of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection) View aggregated information from both units from the free app
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
2 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Early Bird: Buy 2, Get 2 FREE

$98 USD
Buy 2 Aquai Pucks and Get 2 Aquai Pucks for FREE! We will send you four Aquai Puck units you can attach to the appliances of your choice and begin monitoring and saving water. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app. Bluetooth syncing capabilities (you will need to add the Aquai WiFi Connector to access the Puck from any wireless connection) View aggregated information for all units from the free app.
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
5 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Aquai Puck + WiFi Connector

$108 USD
You will get One Aquai Puck & One Aquai WiFi Connector. Attach the Aquai Puck to the appliance of your choice, plug the Aquai WiFi Connector into a wall outlet within range of your home wifi and access your Aquai Puck from anywhere. Audio and Visual alerts are configurable from the free app
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
7 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Hotel/Apartment Pack: 50 + 25

$1,963 USD
Get 50 Aquai Pucks and 25 Aquai WiFi Connectors! Hotel or Apartment complex? No problem. Attach your Aquai Pucks to the appliances of your choice in each unit, plug the Aquai WiFi Connectors in so they are within range of your wifi network, and access your entire property's water usage from anywhere. View aggregate information from all Aquai Pucks from the free app.
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
1 out of 5 of claimed
Ships to United States of America
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Big House: 10 Pucks + 2 WiFi

$364 USD
Estimated Shipping
June 2016
5 out of 5 of claimed
Ships to United States of America

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