We develop affordable, user-friendly, customer portal solutions for utilities

We develop affordable, user-friendly, customer portal solutions for utilities

Engage customers and improve client satisfaction

Engage customers and improve client satisfaction

Perform daily tasks more efficiently

Use data to improve your utility operations

Use data to improve your utility operations

NEW MDM-Lite! - An Affordable MDMS for Utilities

NEW MDM-Lite!  -  An Affordable MDMS for Utilities
Expand customer options and save money!

Expand customer options and save money!

Receive electronic bills (eBill). Make online payments (ePay)

Receive electronic bills (eBill). Make online payments (ePay)
Advanced leak detection & notification

Advanced leak detection & notification

Accurately detect leaks and promptly notify customers

Accurately detect leaks and promptly notify customers
A consumer engagement solution for electric utilities

A consumer engagement solution for electric utilities

Encourage energy efficiency and help customers save money

Encourage energy efficiency and help customers save money
A consumer engagement solution for gas utilities

A consumer engagement solution for gas utilities

Empower customers with actionable information

Empower customers with actionable information

See an online demonstration! It only takes 30 mins.

Video - Customer Portal!
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Video - Customer Portal!

Checkout a short video of the AquaHawk capabilities available to your customers (Customer Portal)

Video - Utility Portal!
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Video - Utility Portal!

This video demonstrates some of the AquaHawk capabilities available to utility employees (Utility Portal)

Personalized Water Use Reports
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Personalized Water Use Reports

To help utilities encourage customers to save water and meet conservation goals, AmCoBi offers individualized, print/e-mail Water Use Reports, in combination with its AquaHawk portal.

A Customer Portal Solution for Utilities

AquaHawk™ and UtilityHawk™ are affordable Web-based, customer portal solutions that help water, electric, and gas utilities improve customer service and build stronger client relationships. By presenting useful data and actionable information, providers can reduce routine support calls, easily resolve high bill complaints, and give customers more control over how they use utilities.

See an online demonstration! It only takes 30 mins.

Learn more about AquaHawk & UtilityHawk

Overview

Overview

AquaHawk & UtilityHawk are customer portal solutions for water, electric, and gas utilities. Learn what they do, who they're for, and how they can help your organization.

Features & Benefits - Utilities

Features & Benefits - Utilities

AquaHawk & UtilityHawk enable customer support staff to more easily manage, and even prevent high bill complaint calls.

Features & Benefits - Customers

Features & Benefits - Customers

Enable your customers to access their consumption data, see an estimate of their bill anytime during the billing cycle, and be automatically notified before they spend too much money on utilities.

Advanced Leak Detection

Advanced Leak Detection

Does your meter reading system produce an endless list of continuous flow issues or miss problems altogether? Is it easy to find the most severe leaks? AquaHawk reduces the time your staff spends managing leaks and simplifies the customer alerting process.

Screenshots

Screenshots

Take a look at some of the key features of the system that include an rich customer view, threshold alerting, and unique features for utilities and their customers.

What does it do?

AquaHawk and UtilityHawk are customer portal solutions for water, electric, and gas utilities. The application helps providers improve customer service and consumer engagement, by enabling your clients to create an online account, view their consumption data, see an estimate of their bill, and perform a host of other valuable functions.

Water utilities benefit from an advanced leak detection system that accurately and quickly identifies abnormal usage patterns, and then provides a comprehensive notification system to proactively communicate with customers via text message, e-mail, automated voice call, and direct mail.

 

Who is it for?

If your utility uses a manual, handheld, or mobile drive-by Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system, our customer portal offers a variety of capabilities to expand your online services. These include:

  • Displaying monthly/bimonthly water usage
  • Showing customers how their usage compares to water budgets, similar users, and conservation goals
  • Links to online payment and electronic billing services.

If your utility has implemented a fixed-base Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system or "smart meter network," there are a host of advanced features available to you that include:

  • Rapid leak detection and notification (water)
  • Threshold alerting
  • Estimated billing
  • Time of use monitoring (electric).

Many utilities promised customer access when they deployed their AMI networks. AquaHawk and UtilityHawk help you fulfill that promise.

 

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How does it help your utility?

Our utility clients are always surprised by the positive customer feedback they receive as a result of implementing our consumer engagement system. This solution can transform the utility-customer relationship from "they-just-send-me-a-bill-every-month" to "my provider cares and is trying to help me."

AquaHawk/UtilityHawk promote customer self-service by providing useful information in a way that's easy for customers, of all technical abilities, to understand. The system encourages customers to answer their own questions online thereby reducing support calls.

Resolving high bill complaints is effortless because utility staff members, and customers can simultaneously review the same usage patterns online, to identify where issues may be occurring. Many of our utility clients have been able to reduce or eliminate costly leak forgiveness programs.

AquaHawk/UtilityHawk offers a direct, low-cost communications system for connecting with customers. If customer responsiveness is one of your goals, this system will help.

 

How does it help utility customers?

Our portal applications help utilities improve customer satisfaction every day. Utility customers benefit by being able to see how they can use water, electricity, and gas more efficiently. Not only can customers save money but they have more control over their utility expenses.

Abnormal usage problems that often lead to expensive bills, property damage, or unnecessary utility consumption, are detected quickly. Customers specify how they want to be notified: text, e-mail, phone call, or direct mail.

In the words of one of our end-users:

 


"First, let me say I love this website. It has allowed me to better manage our water usage and through that activity, we've made significant reductions in our consumption over the last 6 months."

 

Comprehensive Training & Support

Even though our portal solutions are intuitive and easy-to-use, comprehensive training and ongoing support are provided to ensure that your team can operate the system effectively. Outstanding, personalized service is what you can expect every time you call and speak with a "live" representative.

Give your customers access to the information they want and need. As they experience firsthand the valuable benefits of AquaHawk/UtilityHawk, they'll wonder how they've managed without it. Moreover, they'll thank you for helping them control their utility usage and meet their monthly budgets.

 

See an Online Demonstration

We recommend scheduling an online Web demonstration so you can see firsthand the comprehensive capabilities our consumer engagement solutions offer. It takes about 30 mins. and you can view the demonstration from any computer with an Internet connection. Contact us today.

Advanced Leak Detection & Notification

A successful leak detection and notification program requires much more than a simple "continuous flow" flag generated by a water meter or AMI headend system. It requires a combination of:

  • Expert analysis
  • Multi-channel customer notification
  • Task management
  • Logging.

The process must be easy for utility employees to understand and manage.

AquaHawk offers one of the most accurate leak detection systems available. It combines analytics and advanced mathematics to determine in the shortest amount of time, when an account has irregular consumption.

 

Configurable Leak Rules

The leak detection rules can be configured for different account types. For instance, AquaHawk may flag an alert for a residential home if there are 24 x 1 hour periods of water usage--often referred to as a "continuous flow" leak. Another residential user, however, may have a humidifier or swamp cooler installed and this rule needs to be adjusted

AquaHawk will apply different rules to different accounts before generating an alert. For example:

  • Was there continuous usage for 24 x 1hr. periods?
  • Does the account use a humidifier/swamp cooler?
  • Is the usage higher than expected?

The system will only flag a leak when all these conditions are satisfied.

 


"Thanks for the alert! There was a leak in a spare bathroom that had been used by guests. I wouldn’t have known for days if not for this alert. The leak was fixed this morning."


 

Prioritizing Leaks

Many AMI/AMR systems generate high usage reports that are long and dificult to interpret. This makes it difficult for employees to find the critical issues that require follow up.

With AquaHawk, leaks are prioritized based on their severity. An integrated notification system makes it easy for utility staff to send text, e-mail, or make automated phone calls. All communications are logged in the system for reference. 

 

Preventing False Positives

AquaHawk is a vendor-neutral solution that integrates with most commercial meter raeading systems. We've compared our leak results to those generated by other applications. It's common for AquaHawk to catch serious problems that other systems miss. In addition, our system ignores "false positives" that other systems routinely flag.

For example, the most common leak detection method used by AMI/AMR vendors is to flag leaks when continuous hourly usage for 24, 36, or 72 hours has been observed. This is a valid method to use but it doesn't work well for commercial/industrial accounts who may use water around the clock. Moreover, a leak running this long can lead to significant water loss.

Another common way metering systems flag leaks is to set a hard-coded threshold, and the alert if the account exceeds the value. A customer who uses an average of 100 gallons of water per day would be notified if that daily value increases by 100% to 200 gallons per day.

These thresholds don't provide much flexibility and routinely miss lower volume leaks.

AquaHawk uses a much more comprehensive set of evaulations to find problem accounts.

 


 "Greetings, I have attached my leak adjustment form along with a copy of my receipt indicating the items I purchased to make the repair. If it wasn't for the AquaHawk system, this leak would have been undetected for several more days. Thanks again for adopting such a wonderful alert system that allowed me to jump on this repair immediately!!"


 

Analyst Review

To ensure leak alerts are valid prior to being displayed in AquaHawk, each is first reviewed by an experienced analyst. By combining software with expert review, utilities will spend less time managing this process.

Accurately detecting water leaks is a complex problem to solve. AmCoBi has invested years refining its methods so that our system is accurate, reliable, and continually improving.

 

eBill - Offer Electronic Billing

AquaHawk and UtilityHawk now offer an integrated eBill module that enables registered users to view, download, and print PDF copies of their utility statements. Every time a new utility bill is issued, a copy is uploaded to the customer's online account.

Customers can sign up for paperless billing and receive an electronic bill in lieu of a printed bill. Each billing period, eBill subscribers receive an e-mail notice with:

  • A PDF copy of the bill attached
  • A link back to the portal where they can access the bill.

Utilities benefit from reduced printing and postage costs; customers benefit from expanded billing options.

 

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ePay - Integrated Online Payments

AquaHawk/UtilityHawk can be "connected" to your utility's online payment system. Customers click a Pay Online button in the portal and are automatically transferred to the payment site. A Single Sign-On (SSO) process can be implemented so customers don't have to login twice.

If customers would normally have to type in contact or billing information--information already stored in the AquaHawk database--the system will transfer that data automatically. By simplifying the online payment process, customers are encouraged to use these services more frequently. Utilities benefit from the cost savings associated with processing fewer checks or cash payments.

 

PaymentusMobileViewNeed an Online Payment Provider?

If your utility doesn't offer online payment options or is dissatisfied with your current provider, call us. We've partnered with Paymentus Corporation to offer a fully integrated online payment system.

Paymentus offers one of the most user-friendly, versatile online payment portals available. Their processing fees are affordable and their services include:

  • Different payment types (one-time or recurring)
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
  • Pay-by-text
  • Pay-by-e-mail
  • Mobile applications and more.

AquaHawk/UtilityHawk will integrate directly with the Paymentus online system.

 

See an Online Demonstration

To see an online Web demonstration of the eBill and ePay modules, contact us today.

 

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