Identify Leaks and Prevent Burst Pipes with Predictive Insights

Introduction

For utilities and property managers leaks and burst pipes are expensive. Water damage drives a large share of property insurance claims, service calls, and emergency dispatches each year. The costs show up in claims, overtime, truck rolls, and customer complaints.

Utilyze is an analytics and alerting platform built to help water utilities and property managers see these issues earlier. It turns raw meter data into practical signals about leaks, burst pipe risk, irrigation waste, and units that need attention before the damage is done.

Feature Functionality

Water Leak And Continuous Use Analytics

Most leaks do not look dramatic at first. They show up as water that never fully stops. A toilet that runs all night. A small pipe leak behind a wall. A fixture that never quite shuts off.

Utilyze analyzes water usage data to flag unusual continuous flows and leaks. It can see when usage does not drop to normal low levels, when there are sudden jumps in demand, and when water use appears at hours that do not match normal patterns for that home or building.

Instead of burying teams in alerts, Utilyze focuses on finding hidden issues early and ranking which accounts appear most urgent. That gives utilities and property managers a clear queue of customers or units to contact first, long before a small leak becomes a major claim.

Burst Pipe And Freeze Risk Alerts

Cold weather turns minor issues into expensive disasters. When temperatures drop, pipes in vulnerable buildings can freeze and burst, flooding units and common areas in minutes.

Utilyze helps identify patterns that suggest burst pipe risk and actual burst events. It can support outreach campaigns such as “drip your faucets” during freeze events and help verify which homes are actually taking action. It can also highlight units that appear unheated, unoccupied, or at unusual risk so staff can follow up.

By focusing attention on the riskiest locations before and during a cold snap, utilities and property managers can reduce costly burst pipe events, avoid repeat failures, and better protect residents when the next freeze arrives.

Irrigation Detection And Summer Over Watering

Outdoor irrigation is a major source of water use and, often, water waste. Sprinklers that run too long, systems that operate on the wrong days, and leaks in irrigation lines all drive up bills and strain local supplies.

Utilyze detects irrigation usage and over watering during peak seasons. It can separate likely outdoor use from normal indoor patterns and flag accounts where irrigation appears excessive or out of step with local guidance.

Residents can receive alerts about high outdoor usage before the bill arrives. Utilities can support watering day reminders and more efficient schedules in plain language. The result is less waste, fewer bill shocks, and better alignment with conservation programs.

Property Manager Portal

Property managers face a different challenge. They are responsible for whole portfolios of units, buildings, and common areas, often with a mix of submetered and master metered sites. A single water issue can affect many residents at once.

The Utilyze property manager portal gives a clear view of which units or buildings may have leaks, continuous use, or burst pipe risk. At a high level, managers can see both unit level and building level patterns, then drill into the locations that stand out.

Custom alerts can be tailored for residents, maintenance teams, and property staff. Instead of waiting for a resident to notice a problem, maintenance can receive a targeted list of units that look unusual and take action on their own schedule.

Return On Investment

Water damage and leaks are expensive. They affect claims, operations, and customer satisfaction. Even small improvements in detection and prevention can pay for themselves when spread across a service territory or property portfolio.

Fewer Burst Pipe Disasters

Burst pipes are among the highest cost water events. Major insurers report that weather related water claims often sit in the five figure range per incident once repairs, remediation, and temporary housing are included.

If a utility or property portfolio can prevent even a slice of these events, the savings add up quickly. Avoiding a share of burst pipes means fewer large payouts, less disruption for residents, and fewer buildings taken offline for repairs. It can also strengthen an organization’s position with insurers when seeking better terms, lower deductibles, or more favorable coverage over time.

Fewer Indoor Leak Claims

Many water damage claims are not tied to storms. They come from slow plumbing failures, failing fixtures, and other indoor leaks that go unnoticed until the damage is obvious. These events can still cost many thousands of dollars per claim.

Catching these leaks early avoids high cost repairs, mold remediation, and long term vacancy of units. When analytics help reduce the number and severity of leak related claims, the effect on loss ratios and maintenance budgets can be significant.

For many customers, reducing leak related claims and service calls by a meaningful fraction is enough to effectively break even at around a few dollars per unit per month. The avoided claims, avoided truck rolls, and avoided vacancy cover the software cost.

Less Water Wasted, Lower Bills

Household leaks waste enormous volumes of water nationally each year. Federal and industry data suggest that fixing leaks can save a typical household well over a hundred dollars per year, with the leakiest homes saving several times that amount.

By highlighting likely leaks, continuous use, and irrigation waste, Utilyze helps reduce water loss and surprise bills. For many accounts, the monthly software cost can be offset purely by water savings, even before counting reduced claims and avoided damage to buildings.

When utilities and property managers share these insights with customers, they can position the program not only as a safety and risk tool but also as a practical way to keep bills under control.

Call To Action

This overview only scratches the surface of what Utilyze can do for water leak detection, burst pipe prevention, and irrigation analytics. Behind these examples are deeper workflows that connect data, alerts, and field work into a single, practical system.

If you would like to see how this could look for your city, utility, or property portfolio, request a short demo or discovery call. We can walk through your current challenges and show how smarter water analytics can fit into your existing operations.

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