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SteamTrust · Flagship industrial solution

Find the steam you’re paying to lose.

Wireless tags on every steam trap, a ranked repair list every morning, and emissions evidence your auditor can check.

The SteamTrust repair list for Plant 2, ranking steam traps by yearly cost, with trap 114 blowing steam at the top and fuel saved after repairs. Illustrative interface
Trap 114 · Line 2 just now

Blowing steam, costing about $3,100 a year. Fix first.

A stuck-open trap is invisible.

Most plants check their traps once a year with a clipboard. The expensive failures don’t make a sound.

Stuck open, nobody notices

It passes live steam to the drain 24 hours a day. The only symptom is a slightly higher fuel bill across the whole plant.

15–30% fail without a programme

The US Department of Energy benchmark for plants with no formal trap maintenance for three to five years.

Found once a year, at best

With an annual walk-round, the average failure runs for about six months before anyone sees it.

Now the loss is a number someone has to report.

Across Southeast Asia, emissions disclosure, carbon pricing and export buyers are asking for measured figures. An estimate is no longer enough for an auditor.

Lead with the fuel bill. Close with carbon.

  • Emissions disclosure in Malaysia and Thailand
  • Carbon pricing in Vietnam and Indonesia
  • EU carbon border levy
  • Fuel prices staying high
A SteamTrust evidence record for trap 114 showing temperatures before and after repair, steam, fuel cost and CO₂e saved, ready for audit.

What are your traps costing you?

Move the sliders. Every figure is computed from published benchmarks and our business-case assumptions, never generated.

250

Below about 30 traps, monitoring doesn’t pay back.

18%

Under 5% with an active programme; 15–30% after 3–5 years without one.

$20 / tonne

Biomass about $12–15, coal $14–17, natural gas $25–30.

Failed traps leaking now
45
Steam lost a year
6,480 t
Fuel money lost a year
$129,600
Recoverable once repaired
$71,280
CO₂ avoided a year
672 t

Estimate only. Modelled on 144 t of steam a year per failed trap and 55% of the loss recovered once traps are repaired. Your site survey replaces these assumptions.

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One system. Three people who care.

Plant engineer

A ranked repair list every morning, instead of a yearly walk-round with a clipboard.

Sustainability manager

A measured, auditable Scope 1 reduction for the published report.

Finance director

Savings measured continuously after each repair, not claimed once and forgotten.

Sense. Decide. Prove.

Off-the-shelf radio hardware, our software, and a hard line on where AI is allowed.

  1. 01

    Steam trap

    New sensor or an existing signal

  2. 02

    Radio tag

    LoRaWAN, battery powered

  3. 03

    Gateway

    On the roof, 4G back-haul

  4. 04

    Platform

    Classifier and evidence ledger

  5. 05

    Dashboard & report

    Repair list, PDF and Excel

Every trap is classified asHealthyBlowing steamBlockedCycling too fastIndeterminate

Sense

Tags read each trap’s temperature, or an existing 4–20 mA, Modbus or switch signal, and report every 15 minutes.

Decide

A trained model classifies each trap. Below 85% confidence it is marked indeterminate, and no saving is claimed.

Prove

Readings and repairs go into a hash-chained evidence ledger. Reports use a versioned method; a language model never writes a number.

Four ways to connect.

We use whatever your plant already has, and fit new sensors only where it has nothing.

Read a serial cable

Where traps already report over Modbus, one tag reads a dozen of them from the register.

Copy a 4–20 mA signal

A rail-mounted isolator copies the signal. The original wire carries on to your control system untouched.

Read a switch

Dry contacts on traps that already have them are read directly.

Clamp on a sensor

Most traps have no instrumentation, so we clamp a temperature probe on the pipe. No cutting, no rewiring.

We never cut into your control loop. Our system watches and advises; it never switches anything and is not part of any safety system. If our device fails, your plant carries on.

Evidence an auditor can follow.

The report your sustainability manager is buying. Conservative by design: it states its uncertainty and never claims a saving before a repair is confirmed.

Steam system emissions reduction · Verification pack

Sample · illustrative figures

1 · Summary of claim

Continuous monitoring of 248 steam traps identified 43 failed traps. 31 were repaired and confirmed back in normal operation. Verified reduction: 486 tCO₂e.

2 · Boundary and basis

Scope 1, stationary combustion · GHG Protocol Corporate Standard · ISO 14064-1 · IPMVP Option A

3 · Calculation chain

StepMethodResult
Trap conditionClassifier on 15-minute surface temperature; confidence ≥ 0.85 to book a loss43 failed of 248
Steam lossOrifice flow at rated orifice size and measured header pressure1,847 t of steam
Fuel equivalentMeasured boiler efficiency, feedwater temperature and blowdown5,301 GJ
EmissionsIPCC 2006 emission factor for natural gas486 tCO₂e

4 · Uncertainty

±14% at 95% confidence. The reported figure is the lower bound, not the midpoint.

5 · Evidence for the verifier

Raw readings, classifier version, repair confirmations and emission-factor sources, kept 7 years in a hash-chained ledger.

No figure in this report is generated by a language model. Prepared for independent verification under ISO 14064-3.

Scope 1, 2 and 3, simply.

What you burn

Your boiler’s fuel. A leaking trap makes it burn more, so fixing traps cuts Scope 1 directly.

What you buy

Steam bought from an industrial-park utility still leaks through your traps. Same fix, different line on the report.

Everyone else

Your export buyers’ Scope 3 includes your Scope 1. That is why their questions now reach your plant.

Two ways to buy.

Both start with a site survey and a quote. We don’t publish prices.

Subscription

Buy the tags once, then subscribe to the dashboard, alerts and reports. Our cloud, updated continuously.

Ask for a quote

On-premise licence

Own the software on your own servers, with yearly maintenance. For data-residency and no-cloud IT policies.

Ask for a quote

Quotes follow a short site survey of your trap count, existing instrumentation and radio coverage.

Questions plant teams ask.

Straight answers, including the ones where the answer is “not yet”.

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