Industry: Wastewater & Biosolids

Continuous nuisance monitoring for wastewater and biosolids operations.

When odor complaints happen, utilities and treatment operations need a timeline — not guesses, memory, or disconnected weather history.

Odor events need context

Wastewater plants, pump stations, drying beds, sludge handling areas, lagoons, digesters, and biosolids operations can all generate nuisance conditions. The challenge is not always detecting a gas at one point in time. The challenge is understanding what was happening when a complaint, process change, or weather shift occurred.

IRYS combines nuisance gas monitoring, weather, wind direction, alerts, dashboards, and reporting to help teams investigate events and maintain historical records.

Typical monitoring points

  • Fence-line H₂S and NH₃
  • Wind speed and direction
  • Temperature and humidity
  • PM and weather context
  • Odor-prone process areas
  • Receiving, dewatering, and biosolids handling zones

Complaint investigation

Review conditions during the reported window and compare gas readings, wind direction, and weather at the time of the complaint.

Operational visibility

Identify recurring patterns tied to process activity, sludge handling, aeration changes, deliveries, or weather conditions.

Documentation

Maintain records that can support internal reviews, consultant work, management conversations, and community response.

Designed as nuisance monitoring, not life safety

IRYS positions wastewater fence-line deployments as supplemental environmental monitoring for nuisance event documentation and operational awareness. This is different from worker exposure monitoring or certified safety gas detection.

That distinction keeps the service focused on what many facilities lack: continuous external context and historical records for odor and community questions.

Useful outputs

  • Daily and weekly trend summaries
  • Incident timelines
  • Monthly executive summaries
  • Alert history
  • Before/after mitigation comparisons
  • Consultant-ready exports

Turn wastewater odor complaints into reviewable timelines.

Start with a site review to identify odor-prone areas, likely receptors, wind exposure, and the most useful monitoring locations.