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HOW IT WORKS

How passive wastewater monitoring works.

Untap turns site-level wastewater signals into earlier, actionable warning for infectious disease risk.

Untap monitoring unit
WHAT THE PRODUCT IS

A site-level monitoring unit, installed into existing wastewater infrastructure.

The unit operates passively in the background. The science sits behind the system, while the output is clear and decision-ready for the teams responsible for health, operations or resilience.

  • Rugged enclosure, designed for utility-room install
  • Low-maintenance sampling, no on-site lab required
  • Same-day site-level reporting
  • Integrates alongside existing IPC and operational processes
THE PROCESS

Three steps from wastewater to insight.

Each step is operationalised, not just lab science. The aim is a predictable, repeatable signal that operators can plan around.

STEP 01
Passive sampling
Wastewater is monitored at site level on an ongoing basis, without changing normal behaviour or requiring participation.
STEP 02
Signal analysis
Samples are analysed for relevant infectious disease indicators using validated methods.
STEP 03
Reporting
Findings surface through dashboards, reports or alerts that support earlier operational decisions.
WHAT YOUR TEAM SEES

From signal to decision.

Each unit streams its results into the Untap Dashboard. Your team sees clear, decision-ready insight, trends, anomalies and recommended actions, not raw lab numbers.

Plain-English alerts
What to do, not lab numbers. The team gets a sentence, e.g. "Norovirus trending above baseline, review IPC measures".
Trends at your site
Watch how each pathogen tracks over time at your site, daily, weekly, monthly views.
Early anomaly flags
Per-site baselines learned over time. Deviations are flagged days before clinical thresholds are crossed.
Multi-pathogen context
When a signal rises, the Dashboard cross-checks the other markers to suggest the most likely outbreak pattern.
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Site
Riverside Care · Building A
Watch · 1 signal
Last sample
2h ago
Pathogens monitored
5
Lead vs. symptoms
Up to 10 days
Norovirus
SARS-CoV-2
Influenza A
RSV
E. coli
baseline
Norovirus signal trending above baseline
Suggested action: brief site team and review IPC protocols. Detected 4 days before typical clinical threshold.
1d ago
PATHOGEN PANEL

What Untap tests for.

A configurable, multiplexed qPCR panel. Currently validated human pathogen targets, three monitored in parallel per device, with new assays added on request.

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Respiratory
Airborne, person-to-person spread
SARS-CoV-2
Coronavirus
Influenza A
Seasonal & pandemic strains
Influenza B
Seasonal
RSV A
Respiratory syncytial virus
RSV B
Respiratory syncytial virus
IMPLEMENTATION & DEPLOYMENT

Designed to fit operational environments.

A typical engagement moves through assessment, installation, onboarding, reporting and review, coordinated with your operations team.

STEP 1
Site assessment
STEP 2
Installation
STEP 3
Onboarding
STEP 4
Reporting cadence
STEP 5
Review
PRIVACY & DATA HANDLING

Site-level, not individual-level.

Untap monitors at site level, not at individual level. That distinction is central to the product model, it's what makes the signal anonymous, deployable and operationally usable.

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No individual identifiers
Signal is aggregated by site, never linked to a person.
No clinical samples
Wastewater stream only, not blood, swabs or clinical data.
Operator-led access
Reporting access is scoped to operational and IPC stakeholders.
FAQS

Practical questions from operational teams.

Aggregated, anonymous site-level wastewater signals for relevant infectious disease markers, not individuals, identifiers or clinical samples.
GET STARTED
Bring Untap into your site.
Talk to the team about deployment options, timelines and which setting Untap is most relevant for.
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