Aqueduct by Milvian Group
Aqueduct is the intelligence layer above the building systems you already run. It measures water, energy, thermal and air across every site in the estate, finds what is being lost, and produces the evidence your regulator, your rating and your board are asking for. No rip and replace.
The platform
Short answer
A BMS controls plant. A BEMS optimises building energy. An EMS manages energy across assets. Aqueduct is the layer above whichever of those you run: it measures water, energy, thermal and indoor air quality, attributes consumption below site level, and produces audit grade evidence. It reads BACnet, Modbus, LoRaWAN, cellular, MQTT, OPC UA and vendor APIs across 130+ device types.
Module
The sensing spine and the brain.
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A water balance that has to reconcile.
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The building energy management layer.
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What people actually breathe.
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The live digital twin.
Retrofit first
Aqueduct sits on top of any existing BMS, meter or asset, from any vendor, without ripping anything out. Zero downtime, zero core replacement, and no lock in.
No rip and replace
Read only integration by default, so a commissioned control system is never modified. Supervisory control is a later, separate decision.
Vendor agnostic
Runs with Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider and Trane rather than displacing them. 130+ device types, any protocol.
On your network
An on site gateway reads BACnet, Modbus and SCADA and buffers locally, so a connectivity gap delays data rather than losing it.
Industries
The physics of a utility does not change between a hospital and a distillery. What changes is which failure matters most, and who is asking you to prove it.
Solution
A patient safety, compliance and utility intelligence layer that sits above your BMS. Operating theatres, NICU, PICU, isolation and dialysis, monitored con...
Solution
A building energy management layer that sits above any existing BMS, meters water, energy and air per floor and per tenant, and turns operational data into...
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Aqueduct meters water, electricity, steam, compressed air, cooling and effluent across every unit on a campus, reconciles them into balances that have to a...
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Aqueduct meters water, electricity, cooling, air quality and reuse across a working stadium, so the greenest venue becomes the provable one. Compliant, che...
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Common area cooling, washroom water, food court ventilation and car park extract are the real cost base of a shopping centre. Aqueduct meters all of it, pe...
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Aqueduct meters process water, CIP, refrigeration, boiler and steam, compressed air and effluent across a working dairy, line by line and shift by shift, w...
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The parlour, the plate cooler, the bulk tank and the hot water system are where a dairy farm spends its energy and water. Aqueduct meters them, across one ...
Solution
Mashing, distillation, condensing and cleaning make a distillery one of the most water and steam intensive processes in food and drink. Aqueduct meters eve...
Partnership
Facility management is being asked to evidence energy, water and air performance, not just deliver the service. Aqueduct gives an FM provider the measureme...
Compliance
USA, Canada, UK, Middle East, India and Australia. Different acronyms, one underlying requirement: continuous, attributable consumption data, traceable to source.
| Market | Primary instrument | What it measures | The operational consequence |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | ASHRAE 90.1, ENERGY STAR benchmarking, city building performance standards | Design compliance, then annual measured benchmarking | Disclosure is becoming performance improvement with penalties attached |
| Canada | NECB 2020, NRCan national benchmarking | Design compliance for buildings 600 m2 or 4 storeys and above, plus measured benchmarking | Benchmarking against a national dataset needs complete, attributable meter data |
| United Kingdom | MEES, ESOS, SECR | Asset EPC rating, organisational energy assessment, disclosed consumption and actions | EPC B for commercial above 1,000 m2 from 2031, and ESOS progress reporting to 2027 |
| Middle East | Al Sa'fat, Estidama Pearl, DSM strategy | Green building compliance at permit, increasingly questioned in operation | Al Sa'fat Silver mandatory for new Dubai permits from 2026, 30 percent demand cut by 2030 |
| India | ECBC, BRSR Core, CCTS | Code compliance above 100 kW connected load, then assured intensity metrics | Assurance providers trace each number to source, so estimates no longer survive |
| Australia | NABERS, Commercial Building Disclosure, NCC Section J | Measured operational performance, publicly disclosed | The rating comes from your meter data and is visible to the market |
Summarised for orientation, not as legal advice. Requirements vary by state, emirate, province and municipality, and by building type and size. Confirm the operative requirement for your own assets.
Proof
Global water stewardship
One real time water intelligence layer across the estate, with same day leak and anomaly detection replacing bill cycle discovery.
Aviation, United States
Roughly 5,000 meter points instrumented. A 9,000 gallon per day anomaly surfaced within 72 hours of go live.
Healthcare, India
One environmental standard across owned, greenfield and acquired hospitals, with each site visible from the corporate quality team.
Commercial real estate
One measurement standard across a large owned estate, so assets became comparable on intensity rather than on reporting confidence.
Manufacturing, India
Roughly 500 acres of food, beverage, dairy, edible oil and personal care units brought onto one utility intelligence layer.
The platform record
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with SOC 2 aligned security, role based access and audit logging.
Client names are withheld where usage permission is still in progress. Reference calls can be arranged under NDA.
Research library
32 research notes on where buildings and plants lose water, energy and heat, and what each market now expects you to prove.
Dairy benchmarks
Published benchmarks run from 1 to more than 7 litres of water per litre of milk processed. Here is what sits behind the spread, why most plants sit worse than they think, and how to find your real number.
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Clean in place
Clean in place is the largest single consumer of water and one of the largest consumers of energy in a dairy. Almost all of it runs to a fixed timer. Measurement, not shorter cycles, is what makes it safe to reduce.
9 min read
Refrigeration
Refrigeration takes 50 to 60 percent of dairy plant electricity. A fouled condenser, a wrong suction pressure or an iced evaporator never trips an alarm, because the product stays cold. It just costs more every hour.
8 min read
Thermal energy
Around 80 percent of dairy energy goes to steam and hot water. Failed traps can lose 20 percent of it, distribution wastes 10 to 20 percent more, and unreturned condensate is paid for three times over.
8 min read
India compliance
Dairy effluent carries BOD of 500 to 3,500 mg per litre depending on the line. CPCB wants outlet BOD at or below 30. BRSR Core wants the water numbers assured. Both need continuous measurement, not a monthly grab sample.
9 min read
Cold chain
A large dairy runs hundreds of chilling centres and bulk milk coolers on unreliable power, with no telemetry. The first sign of a failure is usually a rejected tanker, hours after the fact.
7 min read
Three markets
The physics of a dairy plant does not change between Wisconsin, Dubai Industrial City and Andhra Pradesh. What changes is what water costs, what cooling costs, and who is asking for the evidence.
8 min read
Venue benchmarks
Fifty thousand kWh in ten hours, twenty six thousand gallons a day just to keep the grass alive, and a demand charge set in a fifteen minute window. The published numbers, and what they miss.
8 min read
India compliance
Of 26 stadiums inspected, 24 draw groundwater and 4 hold the permission. Three venues have already been restrained from hosting play. Point in time claims no longer satisfy the tribunal.
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Next step
A 30 day Aqueduct baseline on a single building, plant, venue or campus. Non invasive instrumentation, your own numbers, and a named list of losses at the end of it. Nothing binding.