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About WaterTDS.Plainly stated.
Who builds this, how support works, and how it's funded — laid out directly below.
Built by an engineer,
obsessed with measuring the invisible.
Naren studied engineering at IIT Delhi and has spent his career building hardware products. WaterTDS is built on a simple idea: a sensor should tell you about a problem before it happens, not after.
He's Barista Hustle-certified in water for coffee. Much of TDSBot's specialty-coffee focus comes from conversations with baristas at World of Coffee about water problems they were guessing at, not measuring.
It started with a patent for an adaptive sprinkler system to cool solar panels — panels lose about 0.5% efficiency per degree Celsius they heat up.
I needed a low-cost water conductivity meter for it and couldn't find one anywhere in Taiwan or China, so I built one myself, for under $4.
Around the same time, my wife kept reminding me to change our home RO filter. That annoyance turned out to be a bigger market than solar cooling: remote water purifier monitoring.
I pivoted to a dual conductivity meter, then added a flow meter. Home users were the initial target, but B2B customers found us through a set of programmatic city water-quality pages and asked us to focus on B2B instead.
The idea started with a home RO purifier, but the hardware didn't stay there.
TDSBot was built to commercial standards, from fittings to operating range, to run in an ice machine, a combi oven, or an RO manufacturer's production line, not just under a kitchen sink.
Team & structure.
Product direction is Naren's. A six-person team at Trident builds and runs the software day to day, with specialists brought in where specific expertise is needed.
Four rules that shape
every reading on this platform.
These are specifically about how TDSBot handles data — not general company values.
Iriichi (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.
A relationship of two decades.
TDSBot is manufactured by Iriichi (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, a Japanese-Malaysian electronics manufacturing (EMS) company founded in 1989 as a joint venture between Iriichi Technologies and Sojitz Corporation. Iriichi runs the full production process in-house, from bare PCB to finished, tested product.
Naren has known Iriichi's chairman personally for over two decades.
What happens
when something breaks.
A small team is a real question for enterprise buyers. Here's the direct answer.
One connected stack,
not just a sensor.
TDSBot is the device. WaterTDS is what runs underneath it — the same platform whether you're a single café or an OEM shipping thousands of units a year.
From equipment that operatesto equipment that reports.
Water infrastructure is entering the same shift that manufacturing, transportation and energy went through — from equipment that operates to equipment that reports its own condition.
The goal is a Water Intelligence Platform that helps businesses understand, protect, and optimize their water systems through connected sensing, analytics, and predictive maintenance.
Does it help customers make better decisions about their water systems?
A few things we
actually mean.
Happy to talk
directly.
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