The Sensor
Adhesive-mount sensor — two-minute install, no plumbing, two-year battery. Capacitive probes with sub-second detection. Designed to fail loud, not silent — every event reaches the network.
aquasentinel
Smart Water Protection
Sensors detect.
The network responds.
Water damage is Australia's largest category of home-insurance claim. Most escapes happen when nobody's home. AquaSentinel integrates sensors, a live app, and a trade network to detect, escalate, and respond in real time — capping damage in under 60 seconds.
<60s
Detection → plumber
$2.4B
AU water claims / year
#1
Home-claim category
2yr
Sensor battery life
The Problem
$2.4B
Australian water-damageclaims · every year
A sensor that beeps in an empty house isn't a product. It's furniture.
By the time someone hears it, the carpet is gone, the sub-floor is warped, and the insurer is already looking at a five-figure claim. Most escapes of water in Australia happen while the homeowner is at work, on holiday, or asleep.
A sensor is the easy part. What happens in the next 60 seconds is the difference.
1in 5
Homes claim water damage in their lifetime
$18k avg
Cost per escape-of-water event
5hrs
Typical leak-to-discovery window
The Product
Sensor. App. Network.
Three parts — hardware, apps, a coordinated response network — designed as one product. The sensor detects. The apps route. The trade network responds. You never call a plumber; the plumber is already on the way.
The Apps
Three native iOS apps — Consumer, Tradie, Owner. Shared event chat per leak. Live status for every sensor. Nominated neighbour looped in automatically. No monitoring subscription.
The Network
A trade network dispatched first-to-accept — licensed plumbers in your suburb, paged the moment a sensor fires. Cloud platform on AWS ap-southeast-2. Every event archived — timestamps, photos, chat, resolution — and formatted for your insurer.
How it works
Three things to do. Once.
Unbox, stick down, scan a QR. That's the whole job for the homeowner. Everything after the first drop of water is coordinated by the network and archived for your insurer.
01
Place
Peel the 3M VHB backing. Stick each sensor to a flat surface near a wet appliance — dishwasher, under the sink, behind the loo, beside the hot-water unit. Two-minute install. No plumbing. No electrician.
02
Pair
Scan the QR on each sensor with the AquaSentinel app. Name the room, add a photo of where it lives, nominate your neighbour. Status visible 24/7 — online, battery, last heartbeat.
03
Respond
Water detected — push + SMS to you, push to the nearest licensed plumber, shared chat opens. You ignore it, they still attend. You acknowledge, they brief you on the way.
Under Sixty Seconds
One burst pipe. Sixty seconds.
A real event — minute by second. You're at work, the kitchen is filling up, and the network has already closed in.
00:00
Water hits the probes. Sensor fires.
00:06
Homeowner push + SMS. Room, sensor photo, mains location.
00:14
Nearest plumber paged. First-to-accept attends.
00:28
Shared chat opens. Owner · plumber · neighbour · dispatch.
00:42
Neighbour closes the mains. Water off. Damage capped.
00:58
Event logged. Insurer-ready before anyone rings.
Who it's for
Three audiences. One platform.
Homeowners, licensed plumbers, and insurers each get their own app — and their own reason to be here. A single shared event chat ties them together.
Homeowners
A response, not an alarm.
- Simultaneous alert to you and a licensed plumber — first to accept attends.
- One shared chat with plumber, neighbour and dispatcher — not seven phone calls.
- Insurance-ready log of timestamps, photos and resolution from second one.
- Two-year battery, no monthly fee, no monitoring contract.
Licensed Plumbers
Dispatch, not cold leads.
- First-to-accept dispatch from the sensor network — no bidding, no chasing.
- Local radius only, configured by you. No out-of-area drive times.
- Paid per job — no platform fee, no subscription.
- Photo + mains location in chat before you arrive.
Insurers
Fewer claims. Smaller claims.
- Frequency & severity of water claims drop across a monitored portfolio.
- Tiered reporting — weekly, daily, per-event — on your terms.
- White-labelled at the surface, fully managed underneath.
- Renewal & acquisition lever — bundle into new policies.
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