Pipes and plumbing industry embrace to smart technology, have seen a sea change.
Shailesh Khamar, Vice President – Sales & Marketing, Huliot Pipes & Fittings Private Limited
What are the smart technology trends in plumbing for new-age, tech-savvy smart homes?
Technology weighs heavily in this year’s top plumbing industry trends, from growing demand for smart homes to pipes that tell on themselves when they spring a leak.
Consumers increasingly ask the plumbing industry for green living products, ways to reduce water usage and recycle water, and for contactless plumbing fixtures.
The combination of technology and customers’ environmental concerns opened new opportunities for plumbing contractors to expand into heating and cooling, lawn sprinklers, and other home mechanical systems. At the same time, a critical shortage in skilled labor calls for renewed focus on quality control and creativity in the workplace.
- Plumber embracing to smart technology: Consumers today use technology to control everything from their smartphones—from regulating their home’s indoor air temperature to creating a grocery list based on their smart refrigerator’s notifications. Workers in the plumbing industry who are willing to adapt to modern technology can identify new streams of revenue and provide better service to their customers
- Educating customers about greywater plumbing trends.
- Demand grows for smart plumbing fixtures.
- Drain pipes report their own leaks
- After Sales Service.
- Focus on mobile-first communication
Over the years how has the industry progressed, technically and product-wise? Share with us few examples of technical inventions implemented in various residential and commercial projects?
There are numerous notable innovations done in industry which has enable better and healthier living environment. We have seen a sea change in the plumbing Industry. From Cement pipe for Underground drainage to Corrugated pipes. From PVC pipes to Polypropylene pipes for drainage. Grey water recycling to be used for flushing and other non-potable areas… From brick wall to RCC Wall and moving further to Drywall concepts. From G.I pipes to Copper, PERT/Al/PERT pipes and Stainless steel pipes for Plumbing.
Have the workers in the plumbing industry adapted to modern technology to provide better service to their customers. Your insights.
The Plumbers are the backbone of the construction Industry and they are adapting to the change and are also learning new technology and the product. There are various institutes who impart training to them to understand the new technology. Indian government has started ISDC and under the umbrella of this IPSC has been established which impart training schedules to the plumber. We have progressed to a level where there are universities who impart 4 year course B Tech in Plumbing to the student also.
We as a company also carryout training programmes on a regular basis for plumber at the site and at our Centre to ensure their skill set are in line for quality installations with lesser room for errors and wastage.
Is enough emphasis laid on educating, training the workers, plumbers about greywater systems and other environmentally efficient plumbing methods?
The government has set a new norm and has made compulsion to set up a Grey water system In India. As per the RERA which has been effective now the developer has to set up a Grey water recycling plant and the norms laid are stringent and also the result has to be shared with the local municipal body.
Huliot India have come out with IOT based solution – ClearBlack by which the entire STP plant can be operated through mobile or it can be integrated with your BIM system.
How does the industry looks like in 2021 and way forward? Business projections of the company! Year 2021 will have quite number of ups and down, as the situation for the COVID 19 is not clear.
Business projections of our company are healthier compared to previous year and the outlook of Industry will be definitely better than 2020, but still it is a wait and watch situation for the economy to improve considering the second wave of pandemic and rising in number of Covid cases in our country.
About Huliot India
Huliot Pipes and Fittings Pvt Ltd commenced Indian operations in 2014. Huliot India is India’s First Certified Green Pipe Manufacturer of Acoustic Drainage Piping System in Polypropylene, 100 % recyclable and carrying the Green Label licenses by Israeli Standards Institute. Huliot India is a subsidiary of Huliot ACS which is leading Israeli manufacturers of Advance Flow System in Water Supply, Drainage, Sewage and Grey Water Recycling. Huliot started its operations in Israel in 1947, grown globally since then as a group with its manufacturing base at Portugal in Europe, Central Slovenia and Gujarat in India. We have an ISO Certified factory in Vadodara, Gujarat and we follow EN Standards.
