ROI
The meter pays for itself. We can prove it.
We find the waste, work out what it is costing, and compare that to the cost of the sensor that found it. In almost every project the sensor pays for itself inside the first year — so the real question isn’t whether you get your money back, it’s how many of these are sitting in your factory right now. Here are the same two tools we use to answer that.
Run the numbers on your factory
Pick a size, pick the utility that costs you most, and drag. The figure moves with you — there is nothing to submit and no address to leave.
Illustrative factory · published benchmark shares
Addressable in your utility spend
$192,000/yr
24% of $810,000 in annual utility spend · $1.60 per square foot across 120,000 sq ft · $48.00 per operating hour
| Utility | Your spend | Published share | Addressable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | $90,000 | 20% | $18,000 |
| Electricity | $480,000 | 30% | $144,000 |
| Natural gas | $180,000 | 10% | $18,000 |
| Compressed air | $60,000 | 20% | $12,000 |
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
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Where every share comes from
- Water — 20%. Quantify’s own average water reduction across client sites is over 20%.Quantify's own published claim: 'our average reduction rate is >20%'
- Electricity — 30%. Demand charges are often 30–40% of an industrial electricity bill.Quantify's own published framing: 'Demand charges are often 30–40% of the bill.'
- Natural gas — 10%. Unnoticed waste quietly inflates heating bills 10–20%.Quantify's own published framing: 'Unnoticed waste quietly inflates heating bills 10–20%.'
- Compressed air — 20%. Leaks silently eat 20–30% of compressor output.US DOE / Compressed Air Challenge leakage studies, as cited in Quantify's own concept footnote.
Each utility uses the conservative end of its published range, and every constant on this page shows its source. Every constant is [TOM-REVIEW] before launch (§G.2) and lives in src/data/benchmarks.json.
Or price one thing at a time.
Four numbers you can check against your own bill this afternoon. Pick one and it opens right here.
- Water leakWhat a dripping line costs over a year, at your own city’s water and sewer rate.4.96 $/m³ · WATER + SEWEROpen the calculator
- Compressed airThe most expensive utility per unit of work — priced by horsepower and leak share.20–30% LEAK SHAREOpen the calculator
- Idle electricityWhat the overnight floor on your trace costs, energy and demand priced separately.0.12 $/kWh · 11.21 $/kW-moOpen the calculator
- Off-hours gasWhat burning through the weekend costs, with the tonnes of CO₂e beside it.0.25 $/m³ · 1.931 kg CO₂e/m³Open the calculator
Each tile opens its calculator here on the page. Escape closes it.
All four calculators are below, worked through at the constants listed under each result. With JavaScript on, a tile opens just the one you picked.
What a leak costs
The easiest number on this page to check: pick your city, and a leak runs whether or not the factory does.
What it costs you
$26,070/yr
- 5,256cubic metres a year
- $71.42a day, every day
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The assumptions behind this
water.combinedRate— 4.96 $/m³ (water + sewer)[TOM-REVIEW]City of Guelph 2026 volumetric water ($2.63/m³) + wastewater ($2.33/m³), rate By-law (2025)-21165 Table 3 — guelph.ca/living/environment/water/water-rates/. Guelph is the default because it is where we are; the water-leak calculator carries all sixteen municipalities in src/data/water-rates.json, which range from $2.6665/m³ (London) to $7.0302/m³ (Kitchener). Replaces the v2 placeholder of $4.00/m³, which the entry itself flagged for verification against exactly this schedule.water-rates.json— 16 municipalities, combined industrial water + sewer, August 2026https://guelph.ca/living/environment/water/water-rates/
Standard industrial water + sewer rates as of August 2026, sourced from each municipality; rates typically rise annually.
What compressed-air leaks cost
Compressed air is the most expensive utility per unit of work in most factories, and the published leakage range — 20 to 30% of output — is the easiest 20% you will ever recover.
What it costs you
$9,549/yr
- 79,573kWh a year, wasted
- 13.3kW of electrical draw doing no work
- 66.3kW drawn at the meter
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The assumptions behind this
air.kwPerHp— 0.746 kW/hpPhysical constant. Note that it converts nameplate horsepower to SHAFT kW, not to the electrical kW a meter bills — see air.motorEfficiency.air.motorEfficiency— 0.9 fraction (shaft kW ÷ electrical kW)[TOM-REVIEW]US DOE Uniform Methods Project, Chapter 22 — Compressed Air Evaluation Protocol: electrical input power is shaft power divided by motor efficiency, and a measured or nameplate PACKAGE full-load kW is preferred over any hp-based estimate. NEMA Premium motors in the 50–200 hp band run about 0.93–0.95 at full load and lower at part load, so 0.90 is the conservative default until a nameplate or a measured package kW is supplied. energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/01/f19/UMPChapter22-compressed-air-evaluation.pdfair.leakShare— 0.2–0.3 fraction of output[TOM-REVIEW]US DOE / Compressed Air Challenge leakage studies, as cited in Quantify's own concept footnote.air.compressorHoursTypical— 6000 h/year[TOM-REVIEW]Quantify's own teleprompter example.electricity.blendedRate— 0.12 $/kWh[TOM-REVIEW]Ontario Class B blended rate as used in Quantify's own teleprompter ('6,000 hours a year at $0.12/kWh') and concept footnotes. VERIFY against the current IESO/OEB Class B blended rate.
What idle electrical load costs
Energy and demand, priced separately — because demand is set by your worst fifteen minutes of the month, not by the month.
What it costs you
$50,589/yr
- 337,500kWh a year, at idle
- $40,500of it is energy
- $10,089of it is demand
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The assumptions behind this
electricity.blendedRate— 0.12 $/kWh[TOM-REVIEW]Ontario Class B blended rate as used in Quantify's own teleprompter ('6,000 hours a year at $0.12/kWh') and concept footnotes. VERIFY against the current IESO/OEB Class B blended rate.electricity.demandChargeRate— 11.21 $/kW-month[TOM-REVIEW]Alectra Utilities, Guelph Rate Zone, General Service 50–999 kW interval-metered (Class B) — OEB-approved Tariff of Rates and Charges effective 2026-01-01, Rate Order EB-2025-0055. Distribution volumetric $3.4474 + low-voltage $0.0257 + 2026 riders $0.0893 net + Retail Transmission Network $4.5377 + Line and Transformation Connection $3.1058 = $11.2059/kW-month. Typical range across urban Ontario LDCs is $10.50–$13.00; Toronto Hydro bills on kVA (~$19 equivalent) and Hydro One rural reaches ~$28. CLASS B ONLY — a Class A customer's economics are dominated by Global Adjustment, not by this charge.
What off-hours gas costs
What burning through a shutdown costs over a year, with the tonnes of CO₂e that go with it sitting right beside the dollars.
What it costs you
$45,000/yr
- 180,000cubic metres a year
- $45,000of it is the gas itself
- 348tonnes CO₂e a year
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The assumptions behind this
gas.rate— 0.25 $/m³ (all-in delivered)[TOM-REVIEW]Enbridge Gas tariffs effective 2026-07-01, OEB Order EB-2026-0156 — delivery + transportation + gas supply + Rider C cost adjustment, HST excluded. Computed all-in at a mid-size factory's volume: $0.2353/m³ for EGD-zone Rate 6 at 500,000 m³/yr and $0.2605/m³ for Union South Rate M2 (which is Guelph's zone; transportation there is $0 and the commodity rate correspondingly higher). $0.25 brackets both. Delivery is a DECLINING BLOCK billed monthly, so the marginal rate a factory actually saves by not burning gas is nearer $0.23–$0.25. QRAM resets these quarterly — the next change is 2026-10-01.gas.ghgFactor— 1.931 kg CO₂e/m³[TOM-REVIEW]Environment and Climate Change Canada, 'Emission factors and reference values' v3.0 (October 2025), Tables 1.3 and 2.3 for calendar year 2026, sourced from the National Inventory Report 1990–2023 Part 2 — Ontario marketable natural gas, Industrial/Manufacturing combustion: CO₂ 1,921 g/m³ + CH₄ 0.037 g/m³ × 28 + N₂O 0.033 g/m³ × 265 = 1,930.78 g CO₂e/m³. AR5 global warming potentials, per Schedule 3 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. Using AR4 instead gives 1.932 kg, so the GWP vintage does not move this number. Combustion only — no upstream or fugitive methane. Volumes at 15 °C and 101.325 kPa.gas.carbonPrice— 0 $/tonne CO₂e[TOM-REVIEW]ZERO, and deliberately so. The federal fuel charge on natural gas has been $0 since 2025-04-01 — CRA Notice FCN16: 'the Government of Canada made regulations that cease the application of the federal fuel charge, by setting all fuel charge rates to zero' — and Enbridge's own OEB-approved Rider J prints 0.0000 ¢/m³ against EVERY rate class, large-industrial ones included. Ontario's Emissions Performance Standards charge $95/tonne in distribution year 2026 (ontario.ca — note that aggregators widely misreport this as $110; Ontario's schedule lags the federal benchmark by a year), but EPS applies only to facilities that have reported 50,000 t CO₂e or more, which is about 25.9 million m³/yr of gas. A factory burning 500,000 m³/yr emits ~965 t and is nowhere near it. So the defensible default marginal carbon cost is $0, and the honest way to show the carbon side of a saving is TONNES AVOIDED rather than dollars.
The water calculator carries real industrial water and sewer rates for 16 Canadian cities, because the spread across them is 2.6× — the same leak costs $2.67 a cubic metre in London and $7.03 in Kitchener. Standard industrial water + sewer rates as of August 2026, sourced from each municipality; rates typically rise annually.
Three results, with their sources.
Nothing on this site claims a result that is not in the proof register.
Pasteurizer water down from 28.0 to 5.5 m³/day, with no process changes and no capital cost.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 3540,000L/dayCarlsberg CanadaA failing diaphragm pump caught before it became a shutdown — over $1,333/day in costs prevented.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 3>450,000LPDI BulkOvernight flow found and stopped — over 450,000 litres of water saved in four months at one location.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 1Named with permission. Every figure carries the document it came from. §H.1 proof register (G1/G7).
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