ENDETEC™, Safe Water Integrity

ENDETEC™ provides new measurement technologies to ensure:

• Enhanced security
• Optimized efficiency
• Quality Assurance

The new water quality sensing platform manufactures and markets brand new patented technologies designed for performance enhancement and increased security. ENDETEC™ features two technological centers:

• The rapid microbiological detection center, located in Kingston, Canada, and
• The center for electrochemical sensing located in Neuchatel, Switzerland

Both technologies are marketed under two different brands:

KAPTA™ which represents in-line sensors for water system optimization and efficiency, and

TECTA™ the patented rapid microbial detection systems that include bench top instruments and "all-in-one" pathogen detection test cartridges

The ENDETEC™ approach adapts traditional enzyme-chemistry methods proven and accepted by regulatory authorities worldwide with an entirely automated measurement system which eliminates visual interpretation. This patented technology is incorporated in the company's monitoring system, which provides on-site microbiological testing capability with rapid time-to-results and unprecedented ease-of-use.

All current approved methods are manual, requiring specially trained staff and fixed 18-24 hours incubation delays. Most operators use 3^rd-party labs that would use one of the current manual methods. The advantage of the ENDETEC™ system is that operators get all the benefits of automation (speed, reliability and productivity) at a per test cost comparable or lower than the cost of using a 3^rd-party lab.

ENDETEC™ uses a modified spectrophotometry method enabled by a patented partitioning technology. Other attempts to use spectrophotometry to automate the standard methods have used direct measurements of the sample matrix. With the variable optical qualities of the sample matrix these attempts have suffered reliability challenges. The ENDETEC™ partitioning technology overcomes these reliability challenges and thus enables a fully automated test capability.

ENDETEC™ technology is approved as an alternative testing method by the Ontario Minister of Environment and has received AOAC-RI certification status. Several other regulatory acceptance processes are under way.

At ENDETEC™, our mission is to have a worldwide impact on public safety and the quality of the environment by developing advanced, automated systems for the detection of potentially harmful pathogens, such as bacteria, chemicals and their by-products.

Please review our products & solutions and applications of our advanced monitoring technologies