Varuna Builds ‘Digital Twins Lite’ for Small Utility Budgets
The startup is emulating the more precise, costlier digital twins that small water utilities can’t afford. The idea is that even with less precision, the product will help utilities act faster to deliver clean water.
Water utilities are starting to implement game-changing tools called digital twins that allow them to virtually re-create their entire infrastructure network, giving them the ability to spot problems earlier and work faster to deliver clean water to the people.
Well, the bigger utilities are, anyway.
That’s the thesis with which the water tech startup Varuna is entering into the market for digital twins. The smaller utilities — of which there are about 140,000 in the U.S. — also need to deliver clean water to the public, but don’t necessarily have the budget to afford a multimillion-dollar solution.
Water utilities are starting to implement game-changing tools called digital twins that allow them to virtually re-create their entire infrastructure network, giving them the ability to spot problems earlier and work faster to deliver clean water to the people.
Well, the bigger utilities are, anyway.
That’s the thesis with which the water tech startup Varuna is entering into the market for digital twins. The smaller utilities — of which there are about 140,000 in the U.S. — also need to deliver clean water to the public, but don’t necessarily have the budget to afford a multimillion-dollar solution.
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