Delivering highly safe and usable Artificial Intelligence for water utilities to improve human life.

Our founder, Suhayl Zulfiquar sets out to work on one of the biggest problems our global society faces: water scarcity. He begins working on the idea of a smart pipe; a concept that would eventually evolve into Ground Truth.

Datatecnics is one of seven companies out of 80 applicants selected onto United Utilities’ (UU) Inaugural Innovation Lab. The idea of the smart pipe evolves into a sensor-enabled, AI-driven digital twin to monitor and model pipe behaviour and integrity more accurately than ever before. We name it ‘Ground Truth’.

In the same year, we launch V1 of Ground Truth and secure a £570k grant from Innovate UK.

Following the success of the Innovation Lab, we win our first contract with UU to deploy Ground Truth.

In the same year, we establish a research partnership with The University of Sheffield’s world-leading ‘Pennine Water Group’ to build cutting-edge prediction models for pipe failure using the multi-parameter sensors collected from Ground Truth.

Gaining momentum, Datatecnics is chosen as one of 13 out of 215 applicants for the coveted Imagine H2O Accelerator.   We begin the deployment of Ground Truth sensors to UU mains.

We launch our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with The University of Exeter’s Centre for Water Systems and set up a dedicated lab to run first-of-a-kind experiments on pipe deterioration under range of loading conditions.

The work at Exeter assists Datatecnics in making its class-leading algorithms available to parts of a water network even where we don’t deploy dedicated sensors, and the ‘Foresight’ platform is born with an ecosystem of tools for a range of asset health applications.

We raise a seed round of £1.1M of investment from Vala Capital, InnovateUK and the European Commission.

We earn a spot on Impact X’s Venture Studio, a competitive accelerator by Impact X, Microsoft, and Spring.

Catalysed by UU’s CEO challenge, we expand our tool stack by developing and launching ‘Leak Response’.

Gaining global recognition, Datatecnics is selected for the inaugural CRH Ventures’ Accelerator for Water Solutions.

Expanding our distribution, we establish a strategic partnership with Network Plus, one of the largest utility and infrastructure service provides in the UK, and win South Staffs and South West Water as customers.

By now, the team has grown into 12 experts in Water Systems Modelling, Engineering, Product Development and more, with a strong and expanding customer base.