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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 sensors 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. The rest of this page is why that matters to us.

A Canadian factory floor

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Our founders

  • Dave Fox

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    Dave Fox, MSc

    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. He studied biogeography and earth sciences at the University of Waterloo and holds an MSc in Arctic geomorphology from McGill, then spent his first working years as an environmental scientist cleaning up contaminated sites. Consulting came next, as a project manager and technical sales lead, with assessment work in more than thirty food and beverage facilities across North America. Fifteen years of that adds up to a fairly good instinct for where a factory is losing water and energy. He was named a Clean50 Emerging Leader in 2019 and teaches sustainable resource management part time at Humber College.

  • Tom Ulanowski

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    Tom Ulanowski, MSc, P.Ag, P.Chem

    Co-founder

    Tom wires the sensors and writes the maths behind the dashboard. He holds an HBSc in analytical chemistry and environmental monitoring from the University of Toronto and an MSc in biogeochemistry and hydrogeology from Western, where he ran an environmental research laboratory at the Biotron and did field research in northern Canada. He has more than fifteen years in manufacturing, environmental monitoring, consulting and quality assurance, including leading quality and regulatory affairs for regulated manufacturing and controlled environment agriculture. He is a Professional Chemist, a Chartered Chemist and a Professional Agrologist, a published scientist and a named inventor on multiple patents. The British Columbia Institute of Agrologists named him Agrologist of the Month in May 2021.

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How we work

Not just another audit or flyby.

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 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. Some of our clients are working toward ISO 50001 or an ISO 14064 greenhouse gas inventory, and we supply the measured energy management data both standards run on.

  • 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 do not rip things out.

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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 factory floor space is still running analog, and every factory that gets meaningfully more efficient is a factory that stays open, stays open here, and can compete on a global scale.

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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    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.

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    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

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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

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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.

Everything we 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 months of bills, and a straight answer about what is worth doing first.

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