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We started this on the factory floor.

Quantify Environmental is an industrial IoT integrator based in Guelph, Ontario, that installs permanent wireless sensor networks in Canadian factories and streams them into one real-time dashboard.

2021Founded in Guelph, Ontario by Dave Fox and Tom Ulanowski

Our story

Most of the factories we walked into were running blind.

Between us we carry three decades of collective factory-floor experience across breweries, dairies, food processors, moulding shops and greenhouses, and almost none of it was spent in the front office. It was the floor at three in the morning with the sanitation crew, the compressor room with the millwright, and a ladder over a pasteurizer with a clipboard.

And the same thing was true in nearly every one of them. The factory ran on gut instinct, a monthly utility bill and whatever somebody happened to notice walking past. Millions of dollars of equipment, and the only number anyone could put a date on arrived in the mail four weeks after the money was already gone. Good operators. Careful people. Making decisions in the dark.

We tried to fix that the way the industry fixes it, with audits and reports. A report is right the day you hand it over and stale the week after. So in 2021 we stopped writing them and put everything we had into building the company we had wanted to hire: one that installs permanent instruments on the equipment, keeps them running, and stays in the room every month with the people who actually turn the valves.

That is why Quantify Environmental exists, and it is why the founders are in a truck on the way to your factory rather than on a call from somewhere else. Why it matters to us beyond that is further down this page.

A Canadian factory floor

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Our founders

You will meet both of them. That is not a figure of speech; it is how the work gets done.

  • Dave Fox

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    Dave Fox

    Co-founder

    Dave is on a different factory floor every week, and he still gets a kick out of finding a leak nobody knew was there.

  • Tom Ulanowski

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    Tom Ulanowski

    Co-founder

    Tom wires the sensors, writes the maths behind the dashboard, and will not put a number on a screen he cannot defend.

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How we work

Not just another audit or flyby.

Not just another audit or flyby. We are in it for the long haul with your team!

“Audits and reports have their place, but nobody has ever been excited by one. What people want is action, data they can see for themselves, and the independence to make their own decisions.”

We make a point of meeting and working directly with every member of your team, from the 3:00AM sanitation crew to the C-suite.

  • We install it ourselves

    Design, order, build and install the sensor network. One to two days on site, usually without stopping the line, and no subcontractors on your floor.

  • We stay on the monthly review

    The dashboard finds it; the review makes sure it gets fixed. That second half is where the savings actually land, and it is the half most vendors skip.

  • We build on what you have

    Existing meters, PLCs with 4-20 mA outputs, legacy SCADA and the spreadsheets your team already keeps: we bring all of them in. We don't rip things out.

We are on the hook for the same numbers you are

We sold you the project on what it would save, and we watch the same live dashboard you do, every month, for as long as the relationship runs. If the savings stop showing up, we are in the room when that becomes obvious. Keeping your costs down is not a favour we do you. It is how this business works.

The opening line is verbatim from ABOUT US PAGE.docx; the pull quote is Dave's, from the 24 Aug review (01:02:01).

Why we do it

A factory that can see itself can defend itself.

Canadian manufacturing is under real pressure at the moment: input costs, energy prices, and competitors who have been measuring themselves properly for a decade. A great deal of the country’s floor space is still running analog, and every factory that gets meaningfully more efficient is a factory that stays open, and stays open here, with the people who work in it.

We are a small company in Guelph and we are not going to overstate our part in that. But it is the reason this is the work we chose, and it is why we would rather be standing on a floor in Ontario than doing almost anything else.

Data creates visibility.

Visibility creates action.

Action creates savings.

Awards & funding secured

Recognition, and the money we have helped clients get.

Awards, recognition and coverage

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    Clean 50 Emerging Leader Award, 2019, awarded to Dave Fox two years before Quantify Environmental was founded.

    Exact official award name to be confirmed. The award date on the post is the year only.

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  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    A Region of Waterloo environmental sustainability award, which Quantify helped Carlsberg Canada win.

    Exact award title, year and site unverified, so this one is not published until it is.

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    AIM2Flourish: the Carlsberg Canada project was featured in the global sustainability programme, and a Flourish Prize interview exists in the archive.

    Featured in the programme is not the same claim as winning the prize. Programme naming to be confirmed.

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    Speaking engagements: NB Power Energizing Efficiency, CFIN, and industrial IoT conferences across Canada.

    Event names, years and whether Quantify spoke or exhibited to be confirmed.

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    Coverage in Guelph News: “Businesses see benefits from city’s water conservation efforts”.

    Headline is recorded; publication date and link to be confirmed.

Funding secured for clients

We are networked with the utilities and the agencies, and a good part of what we do is helping a factory get someone else to pay for the project. The wins are real; the figures below are not written yet, because a funding number belongs on this page only once it has been read off the signed proposal.

  • Cheque presentation

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    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

    Source of truth is the client proposal. Client naming needs permission first. Nothing here is a figure until both are settled.

  • Cheque presentation

    cheque-2 [TOM-REVIEW]

    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

    Source of truth is the client proposal. Client naming needs permission first. Nothing here is a figure until both are settled.

  • Cheque presentation

    cheque-3 [TOM-REVIEW]

    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

    Source of truth is the client proposal. Client naming needs permission first. Nothing here is a figure until both are settled.

Everything we do publish lands in the newsroom first. all the news

§H.5 rule: “nothing in this list is typeset until Tom confirms the exact official name. A mis-stated award is the one credibility error this buyer does not forgive.” Every entry below is [TOM-REVIEW], and no funding amount is written until it is read off a client proposal.

Come and see what we do.

The fastest way to understand how we work is to walk your own floor with us. A few hours, a look at your last few bills, and a straight answer about what is worth doing first.

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