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How it works

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

Science

Wastewater contains signals from infectious pathogens shed by people at a site. Monitoring those signals can help teams understand changes in community health, including before symptoms are reported.

  1. Site-level sampling

    Wastewater is monitored at site level on an ongoing basis, without changing normal behaviour or requiring participation.

  2. Signal analysis

    Samples are analysed for relevant infectious disease indicators using validated methods.

  3. Reporting

    Access findings through dashboards, reports or alerts that support earlier operational decisions.

Insights

Each unit streams its results into the Untap dashboard, with same-day site-level reporting. 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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The Untap dashboard site summary for Willows Health: COVID-19, influenza and norovirus show no detection and stable, RSV has no data, with a legend and a latest-biomarkers radar chart.
Dashboard views
Untap monitoring unit with wastewater sampling tube and mains-power cable connected

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

The unit runs as background monitoring. 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
  • Integrates alongside existing IPC and operational processes

Installed in a utility room, not a building project

A typical install is a single visit. The unit connects to wastewater infrastructure you already have, draws single-phase power, and starts reporting without changing how the site runs.

  1. Site assessment

    We confirm the wastewater access point, power and network, and agree where the unit sits.

  2. Installation

    The unit is fitted to existing infrastructure in a utility room.

  3. Onboarding

    Your team is walked through the dashboard, the reporting cadence and who gets alerted when a signal moves.

Practical operations and privacy

Once installed, the unit is designed to stay in the background of your operation.

  • Low-maintenance by design

    The unit runs unattended between service visits. No on-site lab, no sample handling by your staff.

  • A predictable reporting cadence

    Results arrive on an agreed rhythm, so the signal fits existing IPC and operational meetings rather than creating new ones.

  • Escalation you control

    You decide who is alerted when a marker moves above baseline, and what the first response looks like.

  • Reviewed with your team

    Regular reviews check the panel, the thresholds and the reporting still match how the site is actually running.

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.

  • No clinical samples

    Wastewater stream only, not blood, swabs or clinical data.

  • Operator-led access

    Reporting access is scoped to operational and IPC stakeholders.

What Untap tests for

A configurable, multiplexed qPCR panel. Currently validated human pathogen targets, 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

Practical questions from operational teams

Aggregated, anonymous site-level wastewater signals for relevant infectious disease markers, not individuals, identifiers or clinical samples.
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Download the brochure

Product data sheet (System Model CED 303). Specifications for the monitoring unit.

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